Writing a high concept love story

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

There are, of course, many ways to tell stories, and I’m sure most of you will be used to writing and/or reading short stories and novels alike. But let us not forget there is a middle ground – and I’

Oh, you want to hear about fairy-tale retellings? You want to know the secret of why I write them? Is that it? Fine. Come a little closer. These aren’t some enchanted beans I’m selling, this is the re

Here’s another chance to enter our short story competition with thriller writer Paula Hawkins. Get your entries in by 27 October

Screen break Tanya Combrinck finds out that creative talent alone won’t open doors to the movie industry

Life has a bad habit of mirroring art. Sometimes, this can be in a deeply sad way. A while after I wrote about the assumption of guilt in a traumatised young woman with poor social skills, I watched a