Interview
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Interview with Ann Cleeves
18 September 2020 by
In this interview we chat to Ann Cleeves about The Darkest Evening, her writing process and how writing can help with...
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Interview with Eliza Clark
19 June 2020 by
In Boy Parts, the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men...
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Interview with Emma Layfield, Picture Book Development Director, North at Hachette Children’s Group
31 March 2020 by
We speak to Emma Layfield, Picture Book Development Director, North at Hachette Children’s Group, about her recent move up to Manchester,...
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Interview with Danielle Jawando
20 March 2020 by
Described as ‘An outstanding and compassionate debut’ by Patrice Lawrence, Danielle Jawando’s YA novel And The Stars Were Burning Brightly is an extraordinary...
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Interview with Jenn Ashworth
16 December 2019 by
Notes Made While Falling is both a genre-bending memoir and a cultural study of traumatised and sickened selves in fiction...
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Interview with Okechukwu Nzelu
19 September 2019 by
Nnenna Maloney is a teenage girl juggling friendships, school and sex. But as she approaches womanhood she also wants to...
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Interview with Lara Williams
14 June 2019 by
Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry – until the day she invents Supper Club. Supper Club...
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Interview with Jessica Andrews
15 March 2019 by
When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. Having grown up seemingly a world...
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Interview with Yvonne Battle-Felton
14 December 2018 by
You won a Northern Writers’ Award for Remembered in 2017. Can you tell us a bit about the journey from before you...
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Interview with Una
27 September 2018 by
Cree tells the story of Jolene, a woman from Durham who finds solace, support and ultimately hope from attending the women’s...
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Interview with Paul Ferris
08 June 2018 by
The Boy in the Shed is a story of a life less than ordinary. Born in Ireland in 1965, Ferris and...
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Interview with Laura Steven
09 March 2018 by
The Exact Opposite of Okay follows the story of Izzy O’Neill in the wake of a revenge porn scandal. When photos...