We’re a weekly podcast for anyone who writes. We talk to writers about their writing journeys and techniques, from early career debuts to self-publishers and narrative designers. We’ve featured Margaret Atwood, Jackie Kay, Sara Collins, Antti Tuomainen, Val McDermid, Sarah Perry, Elif Shafak and many more!Brought to you by the National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall in Norwich.
The King of Helsinki Crime and the ‘funniest writer in Europe’ Antti Tuomainen joins us on the pod to talk about his books including The Man Who Died and Little Siberia, plus how the crime fiction genre is the perfect engine for telling stories.Many th…
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Today we have something particularly special on the pod, in the form of George Alagiah’s 2019 Noirwich Lecture.George is of course best known for his journalistic work with the BBC, in particular as presenter of BBC News at Six. He’s just released his …
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Jeremy Tiang returns to the pod, this time accompanied by fellow translator Anton Hur and Kate Griffin. In this wide-ranging chat they take in their inaugural Dragon Hall translator residencies, the BCLT summer school, how mentorships can help people get…
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How do you start a new bookshop in 2019? Leanne Fridd from Bookbugs & Dragon Tales tells us about her new children’s bookshop and why she left a comfortable job to start a new business.Meanwhile, Steph and Simon catch up about the first Primadonna Fest…
Read MoreClaire McGowan is the prolific writer of crime fiction including the Paula MacGuire series and the recently release What You Did. Ahead of her workshop during the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival we got her on the pod to discuss techniques for crafting ch…
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Earlier this month our intrepid explorers Steph McKenna and Roisin Batty ventured up to Edinburgh for the festival. While there they had the opportunity to visit two independent bookshops and speak to the people who work there: Julia Danskin of The Golde…
Read More“I think words change the world, reader by reader.”Val McDermid joins us on this very special episode, talking with Guardian Books Online editor Sian Cain about her newly revealed International Literature Showcase selection of UK-based LGBTQI+ writers….
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90 years ago, Virginia Woolf published her ground-breaking essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’, which posited that to be a writer, a woman needed money and a room of her own. We joined forces with the Royal Society of Literature to offer a week-long residency at…
Read MoreToday we have NCW chief exec Chris Gribble talking with Jeremy Tiang, New York-based writer and translator who was the Inaugural Literary Translator of the Fair at London Book Fair earlier this year.Today’s interview is timed to coincide with the relea…
Read MoreHenry Sutton, co-director of the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, joins us on the pod to discuss this year’s amazing festival line-up and dive into the themes being explored this September.Tickets for Noirwich are available now at https://noirwich.co.u…
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