2004

Contents

• Selina Hastings, Anthony Thwaite and Simon Gray examine the Department of Education's use of language
• Anita Desai discusses the creative process with Maggie Gee
• Michael Holroyd wonders why banks are baffled by writers
• The Archbishop of Canterbury on poetry and faith
• James Knox relives the agony of trying to finish his first book
• How Caroline Moorehead crossed the line between writing and action
• Anthony Gardner interviews Sir Christopher Ondaatje about the new RSL Ondaatje Prize
• Ysenda Maxtone Graham on literary competitions
• Short story: Cherise Saywell's winning entry for the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
• Sue Gaisford in praise of laconic authors
• Sixty-five years ago: James Fergusson exhumes an RSL spat
• Jonathan Keates on the joys and frustrations of teaching English