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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Notes on Craft
Greg Jackson
‘It is hard to devote yourself to something that makes you feel constantly like an amateur.’
Greg Jackson on writing and teaching fiction.
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Natasha Calder
‘What strikes me most, though, is how writers and climbers share an appetite for failure.’
Natasha Calder on bouldering.
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Colin Grant
‘Always I tell myself: yes, you transmit but do they, the readers, receive?’
Colin Grant on distilling truth in memoir.
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Dee Peyok
‘I wanted to learn everything there was to know about the singer and his words.’
Dee Peyok on craft and the Cambodian musician: Sinn Sisamouth.
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Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
‘The whole episode is a miracle and much of the miracle is in the muscles of Carmela’s face.’
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce on craft, nuance and The Sopranos.
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Lee Lai
‘I’ve loved experiencing the page as a map, as something to be wandered across.’
Lee Lai on the function of page and panel in comics.
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Notes on Craft: Does this Count?
Ben Pester
‘Is the act of complicating a perfectly nice daydream a craft?’
Ben Pester on the craft of imagination.
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K Patrick
‘I don’t know anything except my own body. When writing poetry, that’s the only place I can start from.’
K Patrick on writing the queer body.
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Missouri Williams
‘After a series of seizures in my temporal lobe, I started to forget words and say sentences backwards.’
Missouri Williams on the drive to circle back.
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Amy Bloom
‘Revision for me is relief. It is reassurance.’
Amy Bloom on the pleasures of revising.
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Celia Paul
‘A painting is like a letter: they both live in the constant present.’
Celia Paul on writing Letters to Gwen John.
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Preti Taneja
‘Traditional hand-craft becomes literary practice; becomes critical theory.’
Preti Taneja on intertextuality.
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Nataliya Deleva
‘I didn’t want to write Arrival from a place of exile or outcast.’ Nataliya Deleva on writing in her adoptive language.
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Sara Freeman
Sara Freeman, author of Tides, on writing while seeing the wood for the trees.
Granta Books Writing | The Online Edition
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Alex Hyde
‘The scrubbing of floors or rugs. People down on their knees, “tamping” the stain.’ Alex Hyde on the everyday gestures that make a life.
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Scholastique Mukasonga
‘It was the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis that made me a writer.’
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Lucie Elven
‘I make a list of accidents – sentences I’ve misread with my misreading left in them.’
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Lauren Elkin
On journal keepers, from Sei Shōnagon to Susan Sontag.
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Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques on writing her trans and non-binary characters into being.
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Oli Hazzard
Poet Oli Hazzard on writing his debut novel Lorem Ipsum, which is made up of one single 50,000-word sentence.
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Kjersti A. Skomsvold
Kjersti A. Skomsvold on writing The Child, a book on motherhood and grief.
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Jonathan Lee
The author of The Great Mistake discusses the importance of opening lines.
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Ho Sok Fong
‘While writing we recover memories, recover moods, and we start to interpret them.’
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Natascha Bruce
‘The reader doesn’t need to have answers, but they do need to have theories.’
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Rebecca Watson
I was possessed, for a year, by a woman whose name I do not know.
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Amina Cain
‘I would rather work in front of, or behind, a story. I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader’s mind.’
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Caoilinn Hughes
‘I like to feel contradicted and conflicted by characters.’
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Naoise Dolan
‘If something is usually done in novels, but I can’t actively justify doing it, then I don’t do it.’