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Tulip Fever

This month I was going to make a thoughtful post/papal address – something topical on slow writing, or productivity, or

I’m interested in ideas about story that deviate from the usual nagging about conflict – ‘Where’s the conflict?’ ‘This narrative

This week I taught a workshop at Cambridge University’s Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio as part of Bhanu Kapil’s workshop cycle

On Saturday a lovely group of writers came along to Water Ways, the newest of the Four Elements workshops that

On Sunday I taught for the first time at the Victoria and Albert Museum: a workshop on food in writing

I read a lot of good books in 2019. I am never sure about the idea of Best Books, or

In 2020 I’m continuing the ongoing series of new Four Elements workshops with Kellie Jackson of Words Away. Four Elements

Here towards the end of the summer break comes a post with info on writing and creativity workshops I’m leading

1. I saw Bhanu Kapil reading at the LRB Bookshop on Friday. An intense but joyful event – tales of

What’s the conflict, where’s the conflict? These questions often arise in creative writing, and sometimes I find them tiresome. Perhaps it’s

Kellie Jackson of Words Away and I have lined up two further day-long masterclasses on craft for the summer term.

I’m really happy to introduce a guest writing experiment from Zoe Gilbert. She’s chosen a topic that I myself encountered