Submissions open for our Spring event
Our next Story Sunday is March 19th
The theme is Another Country.
Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.
Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.
“We have helped each other deal with rejections and criticism; changes of tense, point of view, direction, and the odd agent … Creative blocks have been dislodged, self-doubt dissolved, technology mastered.” Gail Swann reminds us of our writing group’s history – and some of her own. ‘How long has your writing group been going?’ is…
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.
We had a fantastic response to our call for submissions for next Sunday and are busy putting together a sizzle of solstices with a sprinkling of swimming pools just in case the heat gets to much. Check back in a couple of days for our final line-up and running order. Expect to see supernovae and…
New dates for Hidden Gems! From landmine-sniffing rats to the mysterious ‘red gene’. Since just before lockdown we’ve been sharing the most amazing facts we’ve uncovered while researching our books. From the exploits of famous Italian artists to the birth of photography, the Spanish civil war and some astonishing quantum physics, our audiences always learn…
Help. Autumn is nearly upon as and you’re wondering what happened to midsummer. For us it all came down to a rather warm evening at Southbank Club and a great line-up of readers who entertained us with tales of doomed love, doomed window-cleaning, febrile festivals and disturbingly real trouser snakes. Amongst all the general insanity we…
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…