Professor of Creative Writing, University of Hull
Writer of fiction / nonfiction (Whitbread shortlisted / winner of 1st prize, Basis of Medicine in the BMA Awards). Publisher at Barbican Press, with a focus on writing from PhD Creative Writing programmes.
Man Booker Prize 2018: when writers speak we glimpse the human behind the story
Oct 17, 2018 22:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
Novelists are used to staring out of windows, not out at audiences. We write in solitude, and expect our readers to read in solitude. And then, for a few, the phone rings. A publicist has struck lucky with your book. Its...
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