I'm feeling slightly shell-shocked this morning. The weekend's whirl is over and I realised, probably massively belatedly but th...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) On the 5th March 2015, I'll be spending a couple of hours of my afternoon telling a small and bemu...

 (Photo credit: jm3 ) Or, in short, what to do? You're in the United Arab Emirates and you're thinking of writing a book. Y...

The Umbrella Series - four workshops on the creation and distribution of words - takes place at The Archive on Wednesdays throughout Feb...

Submission Going down, down, dragging her own Submission I can't tell you what I found The Sex Pistols Calm down, now. This i...

Image via Wikipedia The very nice piece about me in The National last Sunday did  contain one or two teensy-weensy mistakettes, one ...

Image via Wikipedia A writer friend of mine, a rather posh one, once cheered me up on the topic of literary agents. “Don’t worry, Alexander...