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I once sat on a panel with two British Asian male crime writers. There to discuss ‘diversity’, the three of…
Nathalie Abi-Ezzi considers her relationship with dogs, both literary and real life, and what writers can learn from pet ownership.…
Writers, especially women, manage to write in all sorts of places. At the corner of the kitchen table while they…
It took years, decades, for him — while he morphed into me — to grasp that his project was fiction…
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…
