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		<title>Writing tools I can’t live without #2: Fisher Space Pen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 10:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that feeling of excitement and joy you get when you first buy a new gadget or beautiful item? And how, after a very short time, that initial excitement starts to fade, and eventually, the item just becomes part of your background stuff? Well, that feeling of excitement never faded for my Fisher Space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, while I was away tutoring at Arvon Lumb Bank with the brilliant Kate Clanchy, I got the news that The Stone Thrower has been shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Short Story Prize, previously won by Colm Tóibín, Claire Keegan, Chris Beckett, Jeremy Dyson, Graham Mort and Sarah Hall. I&#8217;m thrilled. Just look whose company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stone Thrower playlist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 08:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new book, The Stone Thrower, just came out in North America, published by the brilliant ECW Press, who also published Instruction Manual For Swallowing over there. As part of ECW&#8217;s BackLit series, this edition has bonus material at the back: my desert island books, an extra story, and a playlist of music to throw stones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out my monkey stamp</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi just bought me this ink stamp. Isn&#8217;t it great? In our house I will forever be associated with monkeys and books (because my first published story was about a 40-litre monkey). This is the second reading-monkey item Naomi has given me. The first was the Christmas decoration she made a few years ago. I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Naomi on our half-life day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Naomi, Today, I have spent exactly half my life with you. When we met, I looked like this: There was no X-Files, and no Friends. It would be two years before we got our first computer, a hand-me-down from your folks, and it would only do text and that text was green. You still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should write in your pyjamas, plus a workshop and new books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Marek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write in your pyjamas A couple of weeks ago, I was back at Arvon&#8217;s Totleigh Barton in Devon tutoring with the lovely Jen Hadfield. We were talking about our own writing habits, and discovered that one process had given us both a creative jump start. Early in our writing lives, Jen and I both read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next year I will hibernate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedgehogs have the right idea. Just curl up in a warm pile of leaves somewhere and sleep till the daffodils are out. I should do the same thing, because every January is the same for me &#8211; a dearth of creative energy, and self-esteem hitting rock bottom. Like some reverse Midas-effect, it feels like everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of my favourite Christmas decorations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Naomi and I bought our first Christmas tree together, we only just had enough money for the tree itself, and not for any decorations. Rather than buy a whole load of crappy cheap ones, we bought two or three pretty ones that we liked and had a very bare tree that year. Since then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A week tutoring at Arvon Totleigh Barton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just got back from a brilliant week tutoring a short story course and stuffing my face with Tania Hershman at Arvon&#8217;s Totleigh Barton centre in Devon. What a treat! Here&#8217;s my report, in bullet points: Monday • Totleigh Barton is REMOTE. It&#8217;s an hour&#8217;s drive from the nearest train station &#8211; Exeter St David&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litro podcast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen here to me chatting with Litro&#8217;s Emily Cleaver about The Stone Thrower and the inspiration behind the story collection, PLUS actor Cliff Chapman giving a cracking reading of the title story.]]></description>
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