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Bethan Roberts explores the processes by which truth transmutes into fiction, and Lawrence Sail considers the balance between recognition and…
Out of the blue, my husband phoned me at work to advise me that publisher had called, and wanted to…
Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer is premised on the idea that the writer is essentially two people: the artist child…
I thought I was writing history, a novel for teenagers that told the story of British involvement in the Spanish…
Amber Lee Dodd shares how the move to a new city impacted her writing, inspiring her to make braver creative…
As a writer, you’re only in control of how good the work is. None of this means I don’t feel…
It’s all very well having an idea for a novel, or a topic for a non-fiction book, but it’s folly…
In ‘Location and the Writer’, Karl Whitney takes us to the Central Motorway area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Zoë…
Let’s see, what else is in here? Of course, the Mr Trubshaw stories! Various people still occasionally ask me, whatever…
As writers, we are all anthropologists, observing the natives and commenting on their customs. As writers, we can tap into…
Writers discuss their favourite children’s book. Sanjida O’Connell, Dipo Agboluaje, Leila Rasheed, Shelley Silas, Penny Black, Gabriel Gbadamosi and Jonny…
Ultimately, life-writing needs to move outside the self if it is to find a place in the world; beyond the…
