Characters: writing from dual perspectives

For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer. But like many daughters of immigrant parents, I followed the safer path. I became a management consultant. I wore suits, talked strategy, and bu

Most writers need some kind of support network, whether it’s from a writing group, mentorship or tutorial group. It’s so important to find the right balance of encouragement, advice, constructive crit

Jeremy Atherton Lin is an essayist who captures the queer status quo in his thought-provoking writings. His first book, Gay Bar, was a cultural history that explored why clubbing is so central to the

The opening of my first novel Heatstroke came to me in what Stevie Nicks would call a ‘crystal vision’. I was at work, seized by an impulse, and typed straight into an email what are still – give or t

What makes a novel of ideas?

A person of note tells us what they’re watching, listening to and more...