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Salon Showcase: 'Breastfed' by Amber Erwin
'The milk dripped from her breasts and onto her belly, ran rivulets down her thighs; miraculous and fecund as the Tigris and Euphrates'
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Birthing a story
Jane Rogers chronicles the creation of a short story that took over a year and 19 different drafts to complete
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Asking permission in memoir writing
'You must find ways of protecting yourself and those directly affected by the story'
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Lights, camera, fiction!
Screenwriter Lucy Rose shares five tools of the filmmaking trade that she found invaluable when writing her novel
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Agent Extravaganza 2025
Are you at the point in your writing journey where you’re ready to land a literary agent? Then our highly-anticipated virtual Agent Extravaganza is for you!
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The Fay Weldon Memorial Lecture 2024
This is the text of Debbie Taylor’s lecture, delivered on 2 December 2024 at St Swithin’s Church in Bath, at the invitation of Bath Spa University, where Fay Weldon was Professor of Creative Writing during the later years of her life. Fay died on 4 January 2023 at the age of 91.
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Salon Showcase: 'Simple arithmetic' by H C Gildfind
'Though their faces are averted, she can tell that they are, for some reason, as frightened as children. What is wrong with them?'
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