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In conversation: Craig Watson & Stuart Delves
Co-founder Stuart Delves gets Craig Watson to deliver the big reveal. How a piece of well-crafted business writing led him to Dark Angels and a set of experiences ('the people, the places, the playing with words') that have become one of his life's highlights.
In conversation: John Simmons & Rowena Roberts
Rowena Roberts and cofounder John Simmons talk language and connection, books, storytelling, and what it means to call yourself a writer.
Spanish Crossings
Dark Angels founder John Simmons has just published his second novel, Spanish Crossings, set during the Spanish Civil War. This began as a story written in Spain on a Dark Angels course in 2014.
In Conversation: Stuart Delves & Samm Short
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.
Dark Angels in Conversation: Amsterdam
Gillian Colhoun and Stuart Delves ran a two-day, bespoke course for Irdeto’s marketing team in Amsterdam this January.
Fiction is the true alternative
I cannot imagine that anyone reading this blog is a supporter of Donald Trump.
Straight Outta Uni
“Straight Outta Uni” is a funny time. The first question that occurred to me was whether I would have to reference anymore.
Dark Angels in Conversation
John: Place is always important to any writer. I mean a number of things by that.
Dark Angels in Conversation December 2016
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?
A Highland writers' retreat where guests learn to bring the outside in ... and onto the page
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.
Dark Angels in Conversation Nov. 2016
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.