Read, Watch & Listen
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WriteNow Live Newcastle
02 October 2017 by
Writing is a very solitary pursuit. Musicians can jam together, artists can paint together. We writers, us storytellers, do what...
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Fiction is the real truth
29 August 2017 by
There is a question I’ve always been interested in as a writer, perhaps more so than any other. What is...
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Writing for BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Drama
08 August 2017 by
Photo Credit: Maria Spadafora Kamal Kaan is a writer and performer. He read Architecture at Cambridge University and awarded a...
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Writing my first novel
04 August 2017 by
I’ve always wanted to write a novel but I’ve never had the ideas or the commitment and perseverance to finish...
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Young Writers’ City Songwriting Summer School
04 August 2017 by
Every morning we started by doing really fun warm up exercises, directed by Liz and designed to make everyone a...
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Durham Cuckoo Young Writers’ Flash Fiction Workshop
04 August 2017 by
Is it possible to write a story in six words? That’s one of the questions I asked Durham’s Cuckoo Young...
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I can writer like a dream
03 August 2017 by
I can write like a dream. And I do it every day. I’ve done it every day since I was...
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Margaret Mulligan and Read Regional
12 July 2017 by
The month of June has seen me up and out at the crack of dawn, (previously unheard of) climbing into...
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Jane Austen 200 – Finding inspiration from early women’s writing
23 June 2017 by
‘I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever...
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What Do We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Theme’?
22 June 2017 by
When you think about ‘theme’, what do you think of? Chances are it takes you back to GCSE English Literature,...
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Glimpses into everyday life: Read Regional 2017
22 June 2017 by
Deborah Andrews is the author of Walking the Lights , which has been described as ‘a feminist Withnail and I’...
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The loneliness of the long-distance writer: Read Regional 2017
19 June 2017 by
John Donoghue – author of The Death’s Head Chess Club – talks about his experience of participating in Read Regional...