In a bid to get up earlier and squeeze more into my day i.e. get more writing done, I have tried to follow the lead of prolific journalist, Alice Hart-Davis and get up at the crack of dawn. And failed. Not once or twice but umpteen times in recent...

This the title of tomorrow night's event at Pages of Hackney. Iain Sinclair will be in conversation with Bonnie Greer and Yang Lian about how your envionment make you who you are. This is in response to Nick Griffin's recent contention that London...

I'm a December baby. It would seem that my parents, as well as many of those of my friends and relations got a bit frisky around St Patrick's Day back in the Seventies. Whatever. December is a hellish month for me in terms of spreading both myself and...

At last! I've had such a crap year that I figured I was in credit for some good luck. Who knew that I'd have to wait until November for all my luck to come in at once. So... Got a job? Got an in-depth and encouraging critique of my partial submitted...

I was very, very late to the Novel Racers' coffee morning this week but delighted to log on this morning and discovered a great post from Lane about the importance of cultivating a strong online presence: "We are constantly advised that if we want to...