Archive - The Literary Curious

Sorry, Novel. I Wrote Something Else.

How a Claire Fuller writing challenge led me to an unexpected gothic story

Jul 26 • KJ Ferrari

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

(No, not that one)

Jul 15 • KJ Ferrari

The Bug on the Windscreen

A small reflection inspired by an even smaller insect.

Jul 9 • KJ Ferrari

The Witch Was Not Always a Woman

What Writers Can Learn from How We Imagine Witches.

Jul 5 • KJ Ferrari

June 2026

Arvon's Saturday Writing Club

On writing without overthinking

Jun 27 • KJ Ferrari

A Midsummer Reading Review

What reading 64 books in six months has taught me

Jun 25 • KJ Ferrari

Taking Virginia Woolf to Hay-on-Wye

Notes on reading Orlando, and being elsewhere

Jun 20 • KJ Ferrari

Lessons from Women’s Prize LIVE 2026

As someone writing their first novel

Jun 20 • KJ Ferrari

A Journey into London

After the quiet

Jun 12 • KJ Ferrari

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