A round-up of our summer adventures – and it’s only July! Heather Child: ‘Uplit’ at Edgelit As well as an appearance at the Dark Societies dystopian book club in London, Heather was in Derby last week running a workshop and speaking on a panel at the popular sci-fi, fantasy and horror event EdgeLit 2018. …
The creative process. The writer’s methodology. Inspiration versus perspiration. Whatever words you want to use. But as a writer you will know that there are two distinct facets to your writing life. Loosely termed, they are the creative and the craft. I’m not saying anything that any writer doesn’t already know, but having been entrenched…
Hello fellow writers and readers and apologies for being off the scene for a while. However we have some excellent news to report and can also give you the heads-up for our next event in October, part of the annual Bristol Litfest extravaganza. First, the good news. In between all that short story action last year,…
Yes, at 6pm next Sunday you can enter a world of mesmerising and mind-bending stories read by their writers. Our call for submissions has been the best yet and in a break with tradition we at WU are standing aside in favour of a full programme of guest writers. Our line-up includes not only star local writer/performers but also newcomers…
Thanks to Suzanne McConnaghy for summing up her first experience of reading with us at Southbank on March 19th. Writers Unchained impressed me so much at the Festival of Literature, back in October 2016, that I decided I would enter their next event. They’d finally got me to see that writing a short story was…
We’re delighted to announce our next Story Sunday will be on October 20th and in conjunction with the marvellous Bristol Festival of Literature we’ll be celebrating Bristol and its environs with the theme of Tales of Our City. We’re putting together some new ideas for this special evening but as usual we’ll be inviting fellow writers to contribute their…