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If I kept the window open, my room was filled with the white noise of the sea, which could block…
Mark Blayney explores the practice of ekphrastic writing. Mark Blayney on the practice of ekphrastic writing – writing that responds…
I quickly found that playing to halls full of excitable children, and getting a laugh from them, was unimaginably rewarding.…
Agents and editors, producers and commissioners, say they are looking for the original writing voice. Surely the process behind it…
In my rewrite of It’s a Wonderful Life, George would be Georgia. On a cold Christmas Eve, she sits alone.…
Michael Bond speaks with Julia Copus about his significant ‘Three Little Things’. Michael Bond and our host Julia Copus speak…
Orkney is experiencing a cultural renaissance fuelled to a large degree by British people’s fascination with their preliterate past. I…
Surely this has been done before? The answer, invariably, is: ‘Well, yes, it has been done,’ (after all, what hasn’t?)…
One of my literal bottom drawers has jumpers in it and sometimes, if I don’t shut it fast enough, a…
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…
