I’ve had a few favourite pens over the years. When I was in my teens I used to write with a fountain pen with brown Quink Ink. I thought that was very poetic and literary at the time! My favourite pens of the moment are a silver Yard-o-Led pen which was a present from my… Continue reading Interview with Fiona Barker
The huge requirement for writing poetry is a black biro. I find it hard to believe that people can write it with blue biros, fountain pens or pencils. The most special pen is a champagne-coloured one filled with Swarowski crystals – a Mothers’ Day gift, which makes it extra special … but I’m happy with… Continue reading Interview with Alison Chisholm
I’m one of these writers who comes up with loads of ideas but can’t keep them in her head for more than five seconds. Because of that, I own tons and tons (and I do mean tons!) of notebooks to write my ideas down the instant I think of them. There is a notebook in… Continue reading Interview with Rebecca Colby
I use a lot of different types of stationary for my illustrating and writing process. My go to ones are my mechanical pencils and a coloured highlighter. When I get given a project the first thing I do is highlight and annotate ideas around words or sentences that I think have good strong imagery. For… Continue reading Interview with Poonam Mistry
When I was growing up, I had three favourite sections in W H Smiths – the book section, where I could only look because I couldn’t afford to buy books, the stationery section and the racks of pens and pencils. There were so many choices. We had to write with ink pens at school, and… Continue reading Interview with Savita Kalhan
