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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…
Poetry Break: John Greening and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Edward Thomas. John Greening and our host Julia Copus…
The idea of being a writer is essentially a fabrication, and never is that more obvious than just after publication…
I travelled the county, then the country, then the world. Swimming got me into writing; an anonymous report on the…
The creative part of my brain, that had written countless scripts, configured myriad plots, conjured hundreds of characters, had simply…
Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and explores some famous counterfeits. Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and the nature of copying…
Regardless of when I went to bed, I was awake by five a.m., exhausted, and with the feeling I’d lost…
In the Hay green room, I once met Carlos Fuentes. I admired him so much that I took a selfie…
Lydia Syson speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about fiction and ghostwriting, ethical motivations and the importance of luck. Lydia Syson speaks…
Interactivity has been a disaster for writers. Famously susceptible to procrastination, writers are avid for distraction. Interactivity, I would argue,…
I think back to a house we were renting twenty-five years ago. I had a very small room with a…
