Cherise Saywell – My Reading Habits
If something really gets to me, I want to figure out how and why. What is it the writer does…
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If something really gets to me, I want to figure out how and why. What is it the writer does…
Good nature poetry is about looking, but it’s also about having the right vocabulary, which most of us townies are…
Jonathan Edwards recalls his time as writer in residence at Dylan Thomas’s boathouse and explains why the poet’s work remains…
But what about the writer as insider? For every prophet in the wilderness, isn’t there someone firmly embedded in the…
The writers who inspire me are those for whom writing is routine. The ones who, while fond of singing and…
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…