Developing your craft

Non-fiction author Michael Lackey explores the biographical novel; why it's one of the richest and most surprising aesthetic forms of contemporary...

Caroline Dunford - author, playwright, journalist & short story writer - on how so many different forms of writing have influenced and informed...

Author Steven A. McKay explores how you can weave myth and magic into your historical fiction, whilst maintaining authenticity, something that is so...

Dinah Jefferies, author of The Separation, explains how she came to writing later in life, and how having a wider pool of experience to draw from...

Author, essayist and professor Margot Singer on how bending genre and approaching your writing in a new way can help you revise and rewrite your way...

Firstly, thanks again to everyone who entered - your entries have been a pleasure to read, particularly those ten who made the shortlist...