Jonathan Edwards – Writers Who Inspire Me
All of my favourite writers are Dylan Thomas. I say this because his writing is so varied. There are so…
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All of my favourite writers are Dylan Thomas. I say this because his writing is so varied. There are so…
In ‘Location and the Writer’, Mary Colson defends Milton Keynes, Martin Day explores Yeovil and Penny Boxall introduces Shandy Hall.…
Writing, and especially fiction, can become obsessive. A dimension no one else can reach. It can become antisocial and addictive.…
The freelance life is, in many ways, compatible with motherhood. I dropped bits of teaching, but mainly just said ‘no’…
Mark Cocker insisted that the secret to nature writing was patient, close observation; staying very still and watching very minutely.…
Rebecca Goss on her confidence-crushing experience of writers’ block and how she got over it. Rebecca Goss shares her confidence-crushing…
Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can…
A reader might be in the mood for happily ever after. I might be in the mood for a killing…
Had I started anything freely — a poem or a description, a riff of dialogue or rough journal entries —…
Lucy Jago speaks with Julia Copus about her significant ‘Three Little Things’. Lucy Jago and our host Julia Copus speak…
The sight of the plastic table and scratchy seats had a rather Pavlovian effect on me. I’d pull out my…
I was offered a Royal Literary Fund fellowship at my local university. It was a gift. I loved my teaching…