My Dark Angels partner, Jamie Jauncey, was struggling to translate the title of my novel SpanishCrossings into Spanish. ‘Crossings’ has more than one possibility.

Stuart Delves and Samm Short remember how last year's advanced course was a little bit different - blending writing and yoga in the house overlooking the sierra.

Gillian Colhoun and Stuart Delves ran a two-day, bespoke course for Irdeto’s marketing team in Amsterdam this January.

I cannot imagine that anyone reading this blog is a supporter of Donald Trump.

“Straight Outta Uni” is a funny time. The first question that occurred to me was whether I would have to reference anymore.

John: Place is always important to any writer. I mean a number of things by that.

It was wonderful to spend those few days with you at Loughcrew. Tell me, did you have any expectations of what you wanted to get out of the course?

THERE is the beginning of a grey mizzle, and the scrunch of autumn resonates underfoot as a few cars park up, their lights briefly illuminating a house in the distance.

You’ve been on two Dark Angels courses now. So obviously I’m interested in hearing things from your perspective because these conversations should involve the whole Dark Angels audience, not just the tutors.

1969. A small, draughty farmhouse in the Aberdeenshire hinterland. It’s the Doric that’s spoken hereabouts by the local loons and quines.

From John: Up early, showering, dressing, packing, then carrying my belongings of the week across the courtyard to my car. At six o'clock in early March it was still dark.

She was a Connemara girl. Red hair. From a bottle, but still. A wonder.

By the time I made it to Uni I was already pretty pleased with my taste in music. Dylan, Van, Springsteen.

You Want it Darker, Leonard Cohen’s last great song, released just weeks ago. His words have inspired and uplifted me for nearly 50 years.

So Dark Angels Ireland is official. Delighted to have run this first course with you and John.

It falls on me to start the next conversation in this blog series. And I’ve kept putting it off. The problem is this: the last one, between John and Richard, was so wise and intelligent that I don’t know how to follow it.

When Stuart and I first talked about a residential writing course aimed at business writers, we probably had quite limited ambitions.

They are the beloved ones. The ones who know how to work with writers. Who know good writing when they see it. Who know that good business writing is incredibly difficult to produce. They profess their love.