Fiction

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over 60 books, including the bestselling No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

Do you need to know what you're writing before you start?  Or can you wait till it's time to send it out?  And do you want to write to a strict genre...

Many successful authors have rejection letters hidden away in the back of a drawer. I like Stephen King’s attitude – he staked his letters to the...

Suzanne Joinson is the author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar. She works in the literature department of the British Council, and regularly...

Benjamin Zephaniah is known as a performance poet, but that’s only one of his talents – he’s also a reggae artist, children’s writer, novelist and...

Creative Writing Lecturer Derek Neale - in this third piece in his four-part 'Developing Your Style' series - on the importance of establishing your...