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Have you come to writing later in life, and worry that you
Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o
L If they’re ever looking to recruit spies, forget handsome, fit, blue-eyed Bonds. Forget gym-buffed Daniel, impossibly good-looking Tom and danger magnet Matt. Look instead for a middle-aged woman in
We tend to imagine our literary icons in ivory towers – poised, thoughtful, wrapped in something muted and cashmere, tapping away at sleek laptops. Perhaps it’s how you picture yourself when attemptin
Every autumn we run the Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize, with both picture book and chapter book categories. And it’s time for the submission window to open again! This autumn in the picture bo
If your Act One was all about figuring out who you were, and Act Two was about proving it to everyone else (whilst juggling a million glass balls), Act Three is where you get to drop the mask, reclaim
Set up by our very own columnist Helen Lederer, the Comedy Women in Print Awards champion the voices of women who tackle serious and heartfelt subjects with a generous dose of humour. Here, we talk to three of this year’s shortlisted authors...
