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August is exciting. August is the month I travel to Derbyshire for Swanwick Writers’ Summer School. Swanwick is incredibly special to me because it was winning a free week there in 2014 that launched me into a writing life. It will be even more special this year because it’s Swanwick’s 70th anniversary. I’m thinking of taking my harp with me because that's how I generally celebrate things. If I’m very brave I may even venture to perform a song I’ve written for my fellow writers, but then again, I may not. I’m already being pretty brave (well, according to my definition of the word, anyway) because I’ll be teaching one of the courses. ‘Editing Essentials’, the name of the course, has got me t
