Developing your craft

Opening up to the world, putting words onto paper is hard. I spent half my life with no qualifications – unsure whether I could actually write. In...

Short story writer Claire Buckle reflects on some of the ‘golden rules’ of writing advice that she’s come across, and how helpful she’s actually...

It isn’t easy being a beginner writer trying to turn long-held literary dreams into reality. You step into the world of writing to find that the...

As I began writing a story called Bright Spaces I felt sure, for the first time, that I would someday have a collection of short stories to put...

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Reading Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman when it was first published in 2005...

A new year always brings new creative endeavours. At the turn of 2022, we ran a competition that asked creatives to share their 2023 writing goals...