The first building block: structure, plot and story (part three)

Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s

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Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

ARCHITECTURE HAS ALWAYS been of great interest to me. There are many buildings that I have admired for years and their complicated shapes, angles and perspectives all lend themselves to the challenge

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Colm Tóibín meditates on Pat Steir’s painting ‘Night’