Portrait: Carrie Jade Williams, winner of the 2020 Bodley Head/FT Essay Prize © Aoife Herrity Carrie Jade Williams is a fiction writer and essayist. We had the pleasure of (virtually) meeting Carrie at this year’s BPA Writing Weekend, and she told us that she started to write just six months ago after being diagnosed…
Who better than Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, author of the masterful Swan Song, to chat to our BPA Long Writing Weekend crew about the writer’s palette? Kelleigh opened her session with a quote from writer Truman Capote, who inspired her fictionalised debut novel. “Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does,…
A significant proportion of the manuscripts that come through BPA contain fundamental issues with POV. It’s a huge part of writing a novel, but one we don’t like to think about too much because it’s not as exciting as other aspects of the craft. In an invaluable BPA online tutorial, Alice Jolly, creative writing tutor…
To kick off BPA’s first online writing weekend, novelist and tutor Emma Darwin shared her insights on staying motivated, silencing inner critics and listening to inner editors. She started by acknowledging that we all want more writing time but it’s not a straight relationship between writing time and words on the page. Many of her…