A practical guide to finding, vetting and getting the most from UK writing groups, critique circles and open mic...
Everything you need to plan a spoken-word evening: choosing a venue, building a running order, timing the stories,...
A practical checklist for punctuating dialogue in British English — quotation marks, commas, dashes and dialogue...
Show, don't tell is great advice, badly explained. Here's what it actually means, when telling works better, and...
A craft guide to rendering grief with restraint: use concrete detail, cut adjectives, trust silence, and let readers...
A practical guide to finding the focus of your first memoir, cutting what doesn't serve it, and handling living...
Line breaks are the heartbeat of free verse, shaping pace, emphasis and meaning. This guide shows how the same words...
A practical beginner's guide to reading poetry at an open mic, covering nerves, pacing, microphone technique and how...
A practical comparison of blank verse and free verse — how each handles metre, rhythm and line breaks, with...
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