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I wasn’t always a serial killer. It took twenty years of hard cuts, brutal edits and fatal backspaces before my…
I splashed out on an Apple PowerBook Duo 210. A very early laptop with four whole megabytes of RAM. And…
Anna Wilson asks, is it ethical to write a memoir that focuses on someone other than the author? Anna Wilson…
My last novel was set in a hotel on an island off the coast of Tuscany, and for the year…
In ‘Location And The Writer’, Caroline Smailes takes us to a Water Palace, Mark Illis explores Blackheath and Clare Fisher…
I suppose I’m what’s known these days as an ‘influencer’, and while that term has shallow connotations, I take the…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Colin Grant, Kerry Young, Mimi Khalvati, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta and Michael McMillan…
A non-fiction book tends to be sold before it’s written. Whether its your first book, or your fiftieth, the deadline…
I was writing anti-poems, non-poems, un-poems. I was working so hard at writing them. A poet who’s not writing poems…
What happens if you can’t get there? What happens if the cafe is shut, or there’s a thunderstorm? Or, you’re…
Brian Clegg reflects on how accent and pronunciation can change the way written and spoken words are received and understood.…
Every now and then someone gets in touch to say how much a piece of my writing has meant to…
