‘I returned to UEA to teach on the MA, and though I still valued Angela Carter’s advice to me, it isn’t advice I readily pass on to my students. I do believe we should write about what we know, but I no longer interpret that maxim quite so literally.’
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Andrew Cowan speaks with Bethan Roberts about growing up as a working class boy in Corby, eventually taking a Creative Writing MA mostly because he liked being a student, the way his writing proceeds from the visual to the written to the auditory and the slow genesis and under-appreciated success of his first novel.