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Learning from Derek Walcott: Bim Literary Festival, day one

18 May 2012 · Literary events · Comments { 10 }

How often do you get to meet a Nobel Prize winner? That was my main rationale for going along to a Master Class with Derek Walcott yesterday – that and the prospect of seeing Earl Lovelace and Austin Clarke afterwards. The occasion was the inaugural Bim Literary Festival, a celebration of writers both from here in [...]

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On Writing by Stephen King

“On Writing” by Stephen King

20 August 2010 · Reading · Comments { 3 }

This is a book of two halves: part memoir, part writing advice. When I first read it, about ten years ago, I think I was so desperate for someone to tell me how to be a writer that I skipped all the memoir stuff and just went straight for the advice. The only part that [...]

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