Am I a provocateur? I don’t know, but the writer and academic Naomi Stekelenburg who interviewed me for her magazine Give It Mouth seems to think so and I wouldn’t argue, of course… It’s here if you like to read: …
The writer laid bare
On Writers and Cafes
When internationally renowned Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld was barely nine years old, he escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Romania, surviving by moving from one hiding place to another for the next three years. As an adult, still haunted by …
The Secrets of Travel Memoir Writing: A Guest Post from Walter Mason
Travel has always inspired writing, and the two share a symbiotic relationship. There is something about being away from home which inspires a mania for recording events and impressions. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that this is, in all likelihood, a …
Rebecca Starford, the founding editor of Kill Your Darlings journal, wrote a memoir about bullying at a boarding school. I wrote a memoir about non-monogamy. And yet our books share quite a few themes: unconventional sexuality, the importance of places …
The Writer’s Guide to Giving Unhelpful Feedback
For years I’ve been participating in, and facilitating, writing workshops. I’ve been doing this as a member of writers’ groups, a student and a teacher of writing. These experiences serve as the basis for this guide, which I hope will …
A Guest Post from Virginia Lowe: The Picture Book, the Storyboard and You
So, you’re writing a picture book – not illustrating (you’re not an artist) and you know that publishers prefer to select for illustrations whoever they think would suit the work best. If you’re lucky it will be a fairly well …