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Gabby Hutchinson Crouch on her love of William Shakespeare as a fictionalised character

I love Shakespeare. I love his plays, his poetry, and I love the man himself,…

Charlotte Butterfield on creating likeable characters

One thing I get asked a lot is how to write characters that readers will…

Book Review: Dancers of the Dawn by Zulekhá A. Afzal

Deep in the sweltering desert an elite troupe of female dancers have been trained to…

The Queer Found Family of Now, Conjurers (And of my heart!)

Imagine, if you will, five teenagers. Most of them are queer, all of them are…

Book Review: Honey by Isabel Banta

Any book that opens with a quote from early ‘00s-era Britney is almost guaranteed to…

Katherine Blake on bending the rules

There are lots of ‘rules’ about writing. So. Many. Rules. One is that authors should…

Seven Rules For Staying Married When Writing With Your Husband

Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos have been married for thirteen years and writing novels together…

Win a copy of Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch

To celebrate the publication of Freddie Kölsch’s YA debut Now, Conjurers, we’ve teamed up with Electric…

Anna Zoe Quirke on the importance of authentic autism representation in books

When I was growing up, there wasn’t really any accurate autism representation out there in…

Read an extract from Daughter of Calamity by Rosalie M. Lin

1932, Shanghai. By day, Jingwen delivers bones for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the…

Nathanael Lessore on balancing comedy with the theme of toxic masculinity

Why comedy? In my buildup to studying Creative Writing at university, I was bored at…

Book Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Whether it’s a slip, a loop, a classic machine or a dreamy form of precognition,…