Mental ‘warm-ups’ improve creativity
Research by Wilma Koutstaal at the University of Minnesota suggests that people in creative occupations benefit from mental ‘warm-up’ activities just as much as athletes do from a physical warm-up. [...]
How to grow a new brain
Demystifying the Female Brain by neuroscientist Sarah McKay – which was published by Orion in May 2018 – pulls together research into changes in the brain through every cycle of [...]
Interview with Paula Hawkins
Girl on a Train author Paula Hawkins’ follow-up Into the Water stormed into the bestseller charts last year despite bemused critical reception of her multi-voice structure. This interview charts [...]
3. A sunstroke of good luck
The car began to climb through groves of cypresses. I wound down the window to inhale their cool green smell. ‘Let’s buy it!’ cried the Poet clattering downstairs [...]
2. Vasilios turns up trumps
The Daught declared it was too hot to go house-hunting. If she came, she said, she’d whinge all the way and be sick in my sunhat Two bits [...]
Creative Writing Fair, Manchester, 2 Nov
Comma Creative Writing Graduates Fair If this fair is anything like last year’s, it will be a hectic whirl of getting published events and one-to-ones with agents and editors. I’ll [...]