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Workshops Spring and Summer 2018: Everyday Magic / The Craft of Revising

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

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