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Amanda Swift

Amanda Swift

...Group; she has also mentored new writers for children. Several of her ex-students are now widely published and prize-winning authors. She has an MA and a ProfGCE, is committed to...
Telling The Tale Of The Tribe

Telling The Tale Of The Tribe

...became fascinated by the eccentric character of the nineteenth-century mountaineer, Count Henry Russell, who seemed more than anyone to have fully explored and celebrated these beautiful mountains. I felt if...
Writing History, Writing Fiction

Writing History, Writing Fiction

...was involved in organised crime. But Queenie St Clair did more than just run gambling rackets. She was also a champion of black civil rights, and campaigned for people of...
Shapeshifting

Shapeshifting

...I presented my passport the official looked up and smiled. ‘You should have come through that gate,’ he said, pointing at the fast-moving line across the forecourt: ‘British Nationals’ the...
Scarlet Ribbons

Scarlet Ribbons

...rectory, astonished to see everyone seated comfortably round Simon on his IV drip. He suggested that the story could be made public. There was anguished debate, but eventually it was...
Marcy Kahan

Marcy Kahan

...Radio, including five series of Lunch: a platonic romantic comedy (2015 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy); The Playwright & The Grammarian (‘wonderfully incestuous’, the Times); Everybody Comes...
Pseudonyms

Pseudonyms

...perhaps even to reinvent yourself. Perhaps that is why Learned Hand sounded suspiciously like a pseudonym itself to me, until a check revealed that it was indeed the judge’s real...
On The Trail Of John Clare

On The Trail Of John Clare

...too far west to be East Anglia, too far south east to be the Midlands, but not far enough south east to be the South East. I come from the...

The second draft

...them systematically, rewriting them as necessary to make sure that each section is clear and contains all the relevant material. You will need to make sure that they are linked...
Under The Covers

Under The Covers

...smashing apart a joint that was reluctant to be unscrewed after so long. The bed seemed not to want to move. It certainly didn’t want to be dismantled. And who...
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