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We’re a podcast for anyone who writes. Every week 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! The Writing Life is produced by the National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall in Norwich.
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Tuesday May 24, 2016
Tuesday May 24, 2016
Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, when the global financial crisis hit and started its recovery. Reading from The End of Alchemy, King examines what went wrong and why and what needs to be done to make a more stable future. Chaired by former Home Secretary and MP for Norwich South, Charles Clarke. Part of the City of Literature programme at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2016.
Tuesday May 24, 2016
Tuesday May 24, 2016
Warning: some explicit language Acclaimed UK poet and YouTube sensation Hollie McNish returns to Norwich following her sell-out performance last year. Nobody Told Me is an honest and humorous reflection on Hollie’s journey before, during and after pregnancy. Expect hard-hitting and inspiring poems on sex, pregnancy, gender, commercialisation and parenthood. Her ability to add up the minutiae of everyday experience in to something close to a social movement gives her poetry its unique power, the velvet glove of her humour masking the iron fist of a call for change. Q&A with Lora Stimson follows. Part of the City of Literature programme at Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2016.
Friday May 13, 2016
Friday May 13, 2016
Enjoy a recording from the Norwich launch of Brave New Reads. Featuring authors Benjamin Johncock (The Last Pilot) and Colette Snowden (The Secret to Not Drowning) discuss their writing, the journey to publication, libraries and Brave New Reads. Find out more about Brave New Reads at www.bravenewreads.org.uk Brave New Reads is brought to you by Writers’ Centre Norwich and the library services in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and was created in Norwich, England’s first UNESCO City of Literature.