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Yes, I am talentless, you’re right. An utterly unconvincing stab at magic realism, dreadful. And yes, I’m ugly too. Yes,…
In ‘Location And The Writer’, Bethan Roberts yearns for Anglesey, Morgen Witzel explores Dartmoor, and Rebecca Goss examines the skies.…
I’ve lately begun to employ exercise books of the type I used as a child; copybooks of eighty or so…
Email services offer automated replies, as if we are too lazy, too sybaritic, too thoughtless, to write ‘thank you’ ourselves.…
We make a fire at dusk and dance around it in wild leaps to stave off the sharp chill of…
Sophie Duffy shares how facing her own mortality revolutionised her writing. Sophie Duffy tackles the taboo subject of death and…
The thing I recall about the Mark Billingham and Val McDermid event is the sheer pleasure experienced by the audience.…
My thoughts associate freely as I swim among the ducks, coots and moorhens with their chicks. The solution inevitably bubbles…
Poetry Break: John Greening and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Edward Thomas. John Greening and our host Julia Copus…
The idea of being a writer is essentially a fabrication, and never is that more obvious than just after publication…
I travelled the county, then the country, then the world. Swimming got me into writing; an anonymous report on the…
The creative part of my brain, that had written countless scripts, configured myriad plots, conjured hundreds of characters, had simply…
