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Life – and the Litfest – goes on!
Yes, it’s official!We are proud to be offering two events in this year’s Bristol Literature Festival which runs from 10th to 25th October. Sadly it’s all on line but isn’t everything? The upside is that as long as you have an internet connection you can join from wherever you happen to be, in any part…

The origins of a crime writer
Since I finally ‘came out’ as a crime writer last spring, with the publication of Her Last Chance, the first in the DI Crow crime thriller series, the questions I’ve been asked most by those who know me is, ‘Where did the urge to write crime come from?’ usually followed by ‘What on earth goes on in your head?’ After all, once I yank my leopard print shopping trolley out of the cupboard and head off to the local supermarket, the only crime-busting hero I remotely resemble is Miss Marple.
Panning for gold. Gail Swann is resting (not rusting).
Gail Swann writes: Finding myself in a period of writerly pause, or to put it more succinctly, ‘stymied by having too many beginnings’, I have been filling my head with the work of others. I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy a run of cracking good reads (thanks to Nina Milton for book reviews at http://kitchentablewriters.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-kitchen-table-reading-club.html), I’ve…

Swimming against the tide – writing about narcissism
A little about my third book, which takes me in a new direction, and into some potentially treacherous waters… In this novel, a bunch of private Caribbean islands band together to create a brand new nation, the ‘People’s Republic of Love’, governed by the citizen with the most followers on social media.
Nathan Filer and The Shock of the Fall
This week Ali Bacon reflects on what she heard (or hopes she heard) at an evening with Nathan Filer There’s nothing like a local hero to inspire us all to greater things, and since winning the Costa Prize with The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer is the man whose hand we have all wanted…
Story Sunday – Submissions Open
Stop all the clocks! We’re having ‘A Moment In Time’ After something of a lull at WU Towers we’re delighted to be open for submissions once more for our first 2018 Story Sunday event on Sunday April 29th with the theme of A Moment in Time when around ten writers will be invited to take to the Southbank stage…