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Ashdown Forest – exploring the real Hundred Acre Wood
As we celebrate 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh, award-winning writer and trained zoologist Dr Sanjida O’Connell (who also writes fiction as ) took a trip to Ashdown Forest, the ancient landscape that inspired author AA Milne to create Winnie-...
My Writing Life: Ming Ho
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1. What book should every writer read?
I don’t think there can be one definitive book or work that every writer should read – we are each inspired and informed by different things at different times. I would, however, recom...
Edits, edits, edits: Abigail Avis on writing Wet Ink
Abigail finishes her copy edits from a car park while her mum takes her children to the playground.
In her first blog for the , we heard how Abigail Avis – who also writes as Abigail Mann – managed to complete the first draft of her book,...
My Writing Life: Bill Bryson
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1. What book should every writer read?
Fowler’s Modern English Usage. It is idiosyncratic and not always easy to find your way around, but it is full of sound, authoritative advice on how to wr...
Collected: The Podcast – April 2026
Sara Shaarawi; Hanif Kureishi (courtesy of the Kureishi Family).
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This month, Collected: The Podcasts host Ann Morgan was joined by playwright, scriptwriter and producer Sara Shaarawi, who discussed her “accidental” route int...
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The RLF helps writers in financial need and annually delivers over £7 million in grants, education, community, and workplace programmes.
Writer. My Beautiful Laundrette. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. Venus. The Mother. Le Week End. The Buddha of Suburbia. The Black Album. Winner of the Whitbread Prize, and the PEN/Pinter Prize. Fellow of King's College London and awarded the CBE.
Award-winning disabled author, poet, journalist, storyteller. Extra ordinary not predicted life. Teasing open the door to let in disability narratives. Activist leftie old punk cat mum.
Author of upcoming novel WET INK (Spring 2027), Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund, writing coach, writing tutor, and lover of words or words adjacent culture. Based in London, UK.
I’m an award-winning thriller & nature non-fiction writer. I teach writing to people who want to be published.
‘Britain's finest living nature writer' -The Times. Only person to have won Wainwright Prize for nature writing twice. ST best-seller. Columnist. Historian. Author of Six Weeks, ‘The most moving single book on the Great War' -Literary Review. Etc
Born in the city, lived in the country, work in the city as a journalist, editor and writer. Interested in people, places and things.
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