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Paul Dowswell speaks with Catherine O’Flynn about childhood classics, his early career and knowing what you’re good at. Paul Dowswell…
What issues from my pen is like a kind of linear stalagmite; the essential sediment of its sentences built up,…
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…
