nothing in the rulebook – A collective of creatives bound by a single motto: There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giraffe can't play football!

'Children always see more in your work than you ever thought possible,' – artist Helen Hancocks on illustration, inspiration and life in bookshops

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Creatives in profile - interview series

Creatives in profile: interview with William Grave

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"Write something you're burning to tell the world" – SmokeLong Quarterly editor Christopher Allen on writing flash fiction

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Almost half of the adults in the UK aren't reading books

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Book obsessed: the 430 books of Marilyn Monroe's personal library

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'It's the 'normal' people that do a lot of damage,' – crime authors Jo Spain and William Shaw on writing, prologues and why serial killers aren't scary

Craft & Culture

What Brexit means for the arts

Creatives in profile - interview series

Creatives in profile – interview with Ross Jeffery

"Dark and delightfully peculiar" – praise rains in for Ross Jeffery's 'Juniper'

45 Writing Competitions for 2020

Essays & Opinion

Feeling Hella Hygge