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'I came to writing late in life, having never for a moment thought I would become a published novelist. It simply never occurred to me that I could or ever would become a writer. My working-class roots put it well beyond any horizon of mine.'
Katie Hickman on Josephine Waggoner, the first female Native American historian, and the importance of preserving the experiences and life-stories of people whose voices have been hidden.
Ntozake Shange, a Black feminist, in the 1980s, with her groundbreaking choreopoem play, for coloured girls who considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf created choreopoetry, a long- form, poetic-prose narrative written for the page and for performance.
What are we seeking when we visit writers’ homes? Richard Lambert considers literary tourism and shares observations from his own literary pilgrimages.
10-08-2023

Juliet Gilkes Romero speaks with Ann Morgan about telling history’s forgotten stories, writing about intersectionality, chasing down inconvenient truths, and the experience of taking up a writing residency at one of the UK’s most revered theatres.

'I self-published my first series in the States. I was the proverbial old dog, learning new tricks! I designed my own Twitter, Instagram and Facebook banners. I commissioned book covers from a professional designer. I organised a US blog tour. '
'I was told the problem was A, and then B, and finally C. It turned out to be none of the above. My friend the anarchist poet said he had no sympathy for anyone who used a computer. You plant the dragon seed, you reap the dragon harvest. '
29-09-2022

Julianne Pachico speaks with Caroline Sanderson about growing up in Colombia at an unstable and threatening time, how horror and suspense fiction have influenced her work, and how she marries the demands of teaching creative writing with those of producing her own work.

19-05-2022

Lois Pryce speaks with Ann Morgan about travelling the world by motorbike, the way writing changes a journey and the challenge and value of understanding each other.

'I respect Steinbeck, but think he missed a trick in Of Mice And Men. Lenny is brain-damaged, but Lenny is not the only vulnerable character. Curley's wife deserves more detail, more compassionate insight. I would develop her character.'
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