An archive of eight essays on the creative process & occasional posts about Charlotte's work. From September 2026, a new monthly series begins - announcement coming soon!
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Three free events with Emily & Charlotte
A quick message to let the writers among you know about three completely free events I’m doing with Emily Perkins, my co-host in our sellout Elements of Fiction and Elements of the Writing Life courses. Two are live and one is online....
A Quiet Books Reading Retreat
I’ve always been a fan of what are sometimes dismissively called ‘quiet books’. My love of them is not because they’re quick or digestible reads, nor necessarily consoling or uplifting, but often because the very quietness of the work is an...
Five things I've loved this year - and new masterclasses for 2026
I’m a sucker for those those stupid gift guides you see in weekend magazines. I pretty much never buy any of these things - vintage-look digital radios, or candles made from things you’re supposed to eat (olive oil, oranges, marshmallows),...
Elements of Fiction self-paced classes launched!
Emily Perkins and I talking - and laughing, as happens a lot when we talk - at the brilliant WORD Christchurch festival, Aotearoa New Zealand, in August. Thank you to brilliant photographer Petra Mingneau for this shot!
Our wildly popular...
That unfurling feeling
I love the turn of a season, and spring’s arrival is the one I love best, despite - because of? - all its clichés about new shoots and renewal. It’s spring here now in Australia, and as this winter seemed longer, darker, colder and wetter t...
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