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Time for change?

Whatever the last year-and-a-bit has been like for you – and we truly hope that you and yours have all come though it intact – lockdown has altered our everyday existences and made for a collective shift in how we live. For those of us who are writers, that means in how we write, too.

Chances are that while Covid-19 altered or disrupted our living and working routines, many people will have had time they didn’t anticipate – time that they may well have devoted to a creative project. In the case of ’s readers, that will mean writing. A lot of us may have been filling our time with dream projects, or working on our craft, developing manuscripts and beavering away over our laptops. Maybe we’ve been earning our living from it. Maybe it’s been a way of coping, or the fulfilment of a lifelong dream of having time to write. Maybe it’s a new hobby. Whatever it is, however it’s been part of our lives, for many it’s been a lifesaver,

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