- creative writing & book development

Search for:

The Craft of Revising, 23 June 2018

I really enjoyed Saturday’s workshop on The Craft of Revising – a lovely group of writers came along, and we

Earlier today, Kellie Jackson directed me to this powerful photo essay on the stolen generations of Australia. The accompanying essay

Kellie Jackson of Words Away recently interviewed me on her blog for the workshop on revising and self-editing that we

I remember my friend Bobbie Louise Hawkins. I remember Bobbie as one of the great teachers, and one of the

On Saturday I again taught my workshop Everyday Magic: The Four Elements of Writing. We started the day by introducing

I’m excited to be running workshops with Kellie Jackson of Words Away again: one we ran before, and a new

There are lots of theories about the number of stories there are: two, eight, twenty, sixty-four. But I have a

I read some good books this year. I also thought I had read a lot of books this year until

On Saturday I led a workshop called Everyday Magic: The Four Elements of Creativity in conjunction with Words Away. It was

Writing is often described as a form of magic – alchemy. Tor Udall spoke about writing in these terms just

Kellie Jackson from Words Away interviewed me for her blog (10 September 2017) in advance of the Everyday Magic workshop we ran

The 2017 Festival of Writing in York was great fun – it’s always lovely to end the summer seeing old