We interviewed Clare...

We thought it was high time you got to know our current writer in residence, the award-winning short story writer Clare Wigfall, as we know her.

So expect stories of travel, favourite writers, how she writes, how being a new mother has affected her work and an immaculate taste in music.

> Hello, how are you and set the scene for us… where are you currently and what is on your desk?

I’m sitting in my study in Edinburgh, looking out onto the Royal Terrace Gardens. Our flat is on the third floor and the gardens are on a hill, so all I see is trees, grass, sky, the occasional dog or passerby, and one solitary lamp post. I have a large trestle-table desk from Ikea and there are papers spread all over it including notes from the screenwriting and German classes I’ve been taking. There is also an anglepoise lamp, my diary, and a pile of books: two library books about the history of collecting, the Faber Book of New Irish Short Stories, a book of essays called The Good of the Novel and a copy of Where the Wild Things Are that I was reading to my daughter...

Read the full interview with Clare Wigfall here