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All the tables at Simple Pleasures were occupied by people on laptops; coders, writers, poets, songsters. The tables at Simple…
I’ve lost count of the number of artists I’ve seen live and become a fan of because I was saving…
Lesley Glaister recounts how her father’s death fuelled a fiction project that almost defeated her. Lesley Glaister recounts how her…
‘Nothing you ever write is ever wasted.’ What’s that supposed to mean? That you will be able to reuse the…
I also decided I would move to a new story each week, regardless what shape a piece was in. I…
Your newly chosen philosophy degree gradually morphs into a literature one, with a dose of Sartrean self-creativity. Your newly chosen…
Andrew Greig speaks with Doug Johnstone about historical fiction and Scottish culture, confronting his own mortality and the joys of…
He slapped a silver-cover version of JD Salinger’s novel down in front of each one of us. ‘Read it,’ he…
At some point, the Doom would fade enough for me to jump back into whatever I’d been trying to write…
She made us choose a poem and learn it off by heart. It would be useful, she said, if we…
Charlie Hill questions his long-held beliefs about what makes effective writing. Charlie Hill on how the closure of a train…
You don’t need to be gregarious, but you do need to be curious. As Seamus Heaney suggested, we should be…
