Borders have never been more fiercely debated, defended, contested, climbed over, tunnelled under, drawn and redrawn than they are today. So there is no better time or place for a short story competition on that theme than right here and now. So if you have an idea, a spark, an image for a short story …
How do I write? Good question. One answer, as any author will tell you, is to read, read read: How do I write? Good question. One answer, as any author will tell you, is to read, read read: a piece of my bookshelf: Here’s the answer I gave in May 2016, in an interview to …
Spent four weeks in May as a Hawthornden Fellow in Hawthornden Castle in the heart of Midlothian, together with six fellow writers. The castle is a writers’ retreat organised to give writers as much solitude and freedom to write as they can bear, and for me it worked wonderfully well. Breakfast and dinner are taken …