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Gerry Cambridge looks at some of the difficulties around poetry reviewing. Gerry Cambridge, longtime editor of poetry magazine, The Dark…
I’m a very active and social person so I find it especially hard to lock myself away. It makes me…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Emma Darwin, Robbie Hudson, Helen Grant, Jon Mayhew, Fraser Grace and Caroline Brothers discuss…
Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about creative phases, live theatre and adapting the classics. Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine…
“So?” raised uncomfortable questions. Aren’t we always battling against that nasty little question? On bad days it undermines, on good…
Rejection is familiar to every writer. It was already familiar to me when I first sent out my book proposal,…
Bruce Chatwin turned down the Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year award, and its cheque, because, he averred, ‘I’m…
Nicola Baldwin reflects on her time as Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Greenwich University. Nicola Baldwin reflects on her time…
My early plays were all set in London. It was what I knew. London fascinated me. Who were these city…
In my twenties I would never abandon a book I had started, from a mixture of stubbornness and courtesy to…
Once or twice in my writing life a piece of writing has come to me fully formed, spilling onto the…
Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about internal monologues, writing comedy and doubt versus chutzpah. Lucy Flannery speaks with Catherine…
