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Writers must cast aside whichever exciting project they are now working on to go back in time, just as the…
Knowing your own best work rhythms will save you both from making excuses, and from expecting too much of yourself…
What genre would Shakespeare be? His works contain horror, history, myth, fantasy, ghosts, crime. Dickens, too. What genre would Shakespeare…
As well as offering grants to professional writers, we also help our Royal Literary Fund writers by giving them the…
Anthony J. Quinn on the challenges he faced writing memoir about the Troubles. Anthony J. Quinn on writing memoir about…
I stopped to smoke a cigarette, talking aloud to myself in a near-fury that I had a commission waiting for…
I learned very early on as a self-employed freelancer that the answer to ‘Can you do this paid work?’ is…
Michaela Morgan speaks with Ann Morgan about her experience as a poet and children’s writer. Michaela Morgan speaks with Ann…
There was actual advice but the real, unspoken advice was that they were all there. All doing it. Managing with…
The writers that grab me these days are those who pull and push not only at the limits of language…
On that rainy afternoon in O’Connell Building, surrounded by my classmates, my love of drama ignited: recreating Joan of Arc’s…
I watched my new desk as its surface got covered with more and more piles of paper and books, and…
