Claire 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 Wr...
The Writing Life
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.
Archive for August 2019
Aug 21st, 2019
The Golden Hare And Lighthouse Bookshops
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 bo...
Aug 10th, 2019
Val McDermid's 10 compelling LGBTQI+ writers in the UK
"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 reveale...
Aug 7th, 2019
Alicia Morgan in a Room of Her Own
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 for...
Aug 1st, 2019
Jeremy Tiang, Writer And Translator
Today 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...
