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A fascination with mathematics prompted Brian McCabe to explore new directions in his poetry. Brian McCabe’s fascination with mathematics began…
Anna Reynolds describes the challenges of turning real lives into drama. Working with a group of young carers, on a…
Miranda Miller’s approach to writing her fiction involves an idiosyncratic way of ‘seeing’ the past. As a writer of historical…
Katharine McMahon describes her fascination with the Brontë sisters, and the way their lives have been interwoven with her own.…
David Davies on how he – and other crime writers – think up their ingenious plots. Faced with the perennial…
How Charles Jennings finds solace in his suburban surroundings. The suburbs have often been dismissed as dull, but for Charles…
Brian McAvera describes how he came to write his series of plays on the women in Picasso’s life. When Brian…
Jonny Wright explores how to be a rap poet To the uninitiated, there may not seem very much connection between…
How do poets cope with the blank page? Neil Rollinson offers some suggestions. All writers are familiar with the horrors…
Sue Purkiss weights up the pros and cons of going to places you’re writing about. Sue Purkiss wonders whether research…
How Doug Johnstone’s love of islands inspired his writing. Ever since he first fell in love with all things insular,…
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
