Creative Writing

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Why First Drafts Are Like Sharks OR How Not to Start Your Novel …+

Recently, I began writing my new novel. I wrote 9,000 words in the first two days, a personal best. But...

A personal response from author Kirsty Gunn to some of the arguments put about recently in the defense of Creative...

This weekend, 22nd and 23rd October, Faber Academy has commissioned an interactive poetry installation called Poetry Under The Arbour as...

Fresh from an Orange Prize longlisting for Whatever You Love (which has just been released in paperback) and teaching our...

Samuel Black's first novel The Ground Is Burning tells a fictionalised version of a true story - featuring Leonardo da...

As the Faber Academy launches its 'Getting Started' fiction-writing course in February, it is a question that deserves an...

Launched in October 2008, the Faber Academy has gone from strength to strength. What began at Shakespeare & Co in...