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Rejection hurts because it is so personal. Your writing is you. You are naked and exposed. Rejection hurts because it…
I used to plan. I don’t plan now. Preconceptions are mostly impediments. The point of the process is to let…
Meeting and working with hundreds of students was also new; an experience by turns humbling, saddening, stimulating. Meeting and working…
Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood brush with the uncanny almost stopped her writing. Amanda Dalton describes how a childhood…
At the end of Basil we are told that Ralph is ’emancipated from many of the habits which once enthralled…
Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the neurologists can tell us. Does ‘inspiration’ actually quicken your breath? Perhaps the…
Kate Worsley speaks with Bethan Roberts about historical vernacular, learning about writing through sailing and how a novel became a…
It was there and then that my desire to be a translator sprang up. I wanted to gain access to…
If the avalanche of self-promotion that overwhelms my inbox leaves me cold, why should anyone else welcome self-flattery from me?…
Cliff Forshaw describes his fascination with enigmatic French poet, Arthur Rimbaud, and how translating his work led to a reinvention…
You sweated for years over this book, but your publishers have three others coming out this week, and it can’t…
I managed the page proofs of my latest novel, Her Husband’s Lover, as I sat at my father’s deathbed, but…
