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I suspect there are very few of you who’ve read everything I’ve written. Not least because I write across quite…
Harper Lee warned that writers need a thick hide, but even elephants and rhinos feel pain. Harper Lee warned that…
Dilys Rose reflects on her writing routines and how, despite a demanding academic career and a busy family life, she…
Helen Dunmore was an established writer, but she revealed how she wasn’t happy about the stories she was writing. I…
What Agatha Christie knew deep down, is that not only is the writer an outsider, but that the act of…
Lydia Syson considers the kinds of truth embodied in fiction, and considers its place in historical research. Lydia Syson reflects…
In modern times, completing your great work is merely the first stop on the journey. In modern times, completing your…
Writers discuss their desert island book. Dipo Agboluaje, Shelley Silas, Jonny Wright, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Leila Rasheed, Penny Black and Sanjida…
London is of course, a literary city, a city of writers… A few of those writers lived in my neighbourhood.…
Cliff Forshaw, painter and poet, describes how honing his craft in one medium informs and influences the other. Cliff Forshaw,…
When Inspiration does turn up, like a dodgy guest at a party, there’s no guarantee it will appreciate the nature…
I find it hard too, but decided early on that if I was serious about my career I must cope…
