Beatrix Hallam
Beatrix writes about how novels close: last chapters, epilogues, the endings that divide readers and the ones that settle into memory. She reads the final page first more often than she admits.
3 chapters
Desmond Achterberg
Desmond covers the work of finishing a book: drafting, revision passes, cutting, and the long middle where most manuscripts stall. He keeps a notebook of abandoned openings for company.
3 chapters
Ivo Marchbanks
Ivo follows first novels, small presses and the prizes that notice debuts. He likes regional fiction, especially books about industrial towns and the families that stayed in them.
2 chapters
Clementine Oduya
Clementine writes reading guides and discussion questions for book groups, and essays on reading habits. She thinks a good book club question should make at least one person change their mind.
2 chapters
Yusuf Brannigan
Yusuf writes about learning the craft outside and inside classrooms: workshops, degrees, reading like a writer, query letters and the first steps toward publication, without promises.
3 chapters