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Jayne Anne Phillips’ slim collection Sweethearts was published when she was in her early twenties. She calls the writing ‘pieces’.…
A comfortable chair is essential, unless one is a Woolf or a Hemingway (who wrote on their feet), or a…
Left alone with no idea, your imagination begins to work overtime. The book is dying on its feet. Generally, editors…
Penny Hancock on how her habit of writing under the covers has proved essential to her process and how this…
Carrot comes into view — another ep of latest Covid Netflix addiction. Only if you’ve done your pages. Comes as…
I sent in a physical copy of the novel rather than a Word doc., banking on the fact no-one would…
You baulk at the term ‘networking’ and think it’s somehow shabby. It’s about getting to know people. Collaboration and trust…
Anna Wilson speaks with Caroline Sanderson about wild swimming, the benefits of a child’s-eye view and her recent memoir. Anna…
Seventy-four years after Dickens’ night-walk, in the year 1930, Virginia Woolf sets out from Bloomsbury to the Strand, to purchase…
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.…
