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Bill Kirton speaks with Doug Johnstone about following his curiosity, enjoying variety and collaborating with somebody he’s never met. Bill…
Why do I go through this? I’m fifty-five years old. I’ve had twelve books published, and I’ve had thirty-six years…
The main reason I struggle to be genre fluid is that to write good historical novels you need two sets…
Lois Pryce describes her year with Long Covid and the impact the illness had on her reading and writing. In…
Eventually, creeping industrialisation and the seizure and loss of his beloved countryside caused John Clare such anguish it sent him…
I returned to UEA to teach on the MA, and though I still valued Angela Carter’s advice to me, it…
It seems I share the writing fetishes of several people. I conclude, that I’m unusually neurotic and pervy. It seems…
Bill Kirton speaks with Doug Johnstone about his love of teaching and becoming a writer accidentally. Bill Kirton speaks with…
Lectio interruptus. Unfinished reading. That, regrettably, is what my reading habits today consist of; procrastination, and some disorganisation. Lectio interruptus.…
Knowledge of life in these cities — that I could never have acquired without inhabiting them — surfaced in my…
On the hour-long car ride to the hotel, I kept seeing banners bearing my face. I wondered if lack of…
Gerry Cambridge on returning to his childhood home and finding inspiration in the landscape where his writing career began. Gerry…
