Developing your craft

It isn’t easy being a beginner writer trying to turn long-held literary dreams into reality. You step into the world of writing to find that the...

As I began writing a story called Bright Spaces I felt sure, for the first time, that I would someday have a collection of short stories to put...

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Reading Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman when it was first published in 2005...

A new year always brings new creative endeavours. At the turn of 2022, we ran a competition that asked creatives to share their 2023 writing goals...

I’m Camilla Chester, a children’s author. I’ve been writing for children for many years, self-publishing three novels for 8-12s and then...

1. Be realistic

We’ve all set unrealistic goals for our writing. We boldly declare “I’m going to write a book in a month,” then feel...