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I Remember York 2017

I didn’t use I Remember exercises at York this year, but in that style here are a few quick memories

Jack Collom, poet, teacher, friend and lover of nature, died last month. His memorial is held at Naropa today, and

I’m offering an editorial critique via the online auction Authors For Grenfell Tower. The money raised will be paid to the

Something that all writers have to deal with at some point or other is rejection. Your manuscript gets turned down

I was very lucky to see George Saunders talking about his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo this week. The man

At the weekend I discovered this extraordinarily rousing speech of Meryl Streep accepting her National Ally For Equality Award from the Human

The Writers’ Workshop Getting Publishing Day was great fun. It was good to see some old faces and meet plenty

I’m planning for a workshop on plotting I’m leading at the Getting Published Day on Saturday. I went online earlier to read

As I teach creative writing, taking a writing course might seem like a busman’s holiday, or teaching grandad to suck eggs … or

My book of the year is Lucia Berlin’s A Manual For Cleaning Women. It might even be my book of the

What are you giving the reader on every page? Let’s revisit that idea of giving, as we considered in the writing experiment

(Updated June 2019 and February 2020 to include further links: this one is ongoing.) A subject that comes up frequently in