Developing your craft

What sets YA fiction apart?

Bridget Collins: What I love about it is the intensity, and the freedom – because it’s in the middle of...

What is YA fiction?

Julia Green: It’s a publishing category, really, rather than a genre with particular characteristics, although...

Jane Austen's manuscripts are part of her legend, that she carved herself out a creative space in tiny words, on cramped paper, not...

At the other end of the spectrum, there is a novel like the prize winning Tenderness of Wolves, whose author Stef Penny had never visited Canada...

When undergoing major life changes and trying to keep up with your writing, deadlines become even more important. A missed deadline...

I am often asked how 'perfect' a submission needs to be, in terms of its grammar and spelling.  Spelling should be spell-checked, preferably...