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Amanda Mason, author of The Wayward Girls, explains the haunting pull of the supernatural for writers ...

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Advice from Joy Kenward on how you can use mindfulness techniques to help you be a better writer ...

Writing tutor and professional author James McCreet is hosting a workshop in March 2020, and here's why you need ...

This week's creative writing exercise is all about carrying out a repair job on a piece of writing that isn't ...

How do you write convincing dialogue and structure it correctly in your story? We show you how! ...

Every day this week, you can read an extract from one of the stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story ...