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Abir Mukherjee delivers a powerful essay on growing up in the UK as a child of Indian immigrants, Britain’s relationship to its colonial history, and what drives him to write.
Award-winning writer, poet and podcaster Derek Owusu moves between waking and dreaming in this personal snapshot of a year spent in lockdown
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Kerri ní Dochartaigh reflects on the experience of writing, dreaming and falling pregnant during a global pandemic
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The new arrangement will provide opportunities for even closer collaboration and new creative experiences for communities
BBC Short Story Award winner Jo Lloyd is on the podcast
All proceeds go towards supporting underrepresented writers
Abir Mukherjee’s historical crime novel is our current NCW Virtual Book Club pick
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NCW announces the 10-strong longlist for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize, which will be awarded to the most outstanding first novel of the past 12 months
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This year’s City of Literature strand of Norfolk & Norwich Festival invites you to embrace and experiment with the unknown, the unusual and the unexpected
The author of The Last Good Man joins us on this week’s podcast
More than £300 million has been awarded to cultural organisations across the country
Vineet Lal reflects on his career over the past decade and shares his advice for emerging translators
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Why and how Tom publishes his books with Unbound
Poetry, middle-grade fiction and much more!
Kerry Hudson set to chair the Laura Kinsella Fellowship for underrepresented voices
The remarkable true story of the slave who become Queen Victoria’s goddaughter
Norfolk writing duo Ellie McKinlay-Khojinian and Ligia Macedo explore the historic seaside town of Great Yarmouth
Celebrating engineering in children’s writing
A short story by Lynn Buckle
Researching and writing The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing
Inspired by everyday items in a beautiful city – from nature webcams to abandoned shopping lists
Writer and journalist Marcin Wilk explores the independent bookshops of Norwich and examines the role that they play in our communities.
Liz Breslin from Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature responds to modern surveillance through poetry
Valur Gunnarsson explores history, heritage and literature as he walks along the coasts of Norfolk and Reykjavík
Try this simple exercise to create a vivid sense of place and feeling
On publishing their second book in a pandemic and how rejection does not mean you’re a bad writer
Talking to Peggy Hughes on The Writing Life podcast
Casper Rhodes-Leeder produces a poem inspired by webcams, online learning and working from home
Small climate details in our writing can have a wider positive effect on our community and environment, says Freya Cushing
One of the participants of our Lit From the Inside programme shares her experience
‘Meeting so many different people who share a passion for literature really made me think about how I felt about writing and reading.’
Khairani Barokka’s ‘lyrical, defiant’ first full poetry collection is our current NCW Virtual Book Club pick
by Vahni Capildeo, our virtual writer in residence from Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature
Blog & podcast featuring translator William Gregory
Recommended reading lists from our UNESCO City of Literature Virtual Writers in Residence
Try out this step-by-step process for writing non-fiction, biography or memoir
Forward Prize-winning writer Vahni Capildeo shares their best advice for aspiring writers
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In a world of screens and questionable wi-fi connections, Valur Gunnarsson recommends spending more time thinking than writing
From scrapping your routine to creating a literary collage
Molly-Rose Medhurst from Girl Up Norwich shares her pick of books by LGBT+ writers
Author Stephen Michael Shearer and film director John Hay on the podcast
Examining the conversation structure of Two Tribes
UEA New Forms Award winner Taylor Beidler on the feedback loop of conversation
Carys Davies, author of The Redemption of Galen Pike and The Mission House, reflects on the importance of dialogue for building character and story
The award-winning stage and screenwriter offers key advice for getting the most of your character’s dialogue
Advice from writer-illustrator and UK Comics Laureate Hannah Berry
Eight contemporary writers across England have worked with their local communities to explore the everyday magic of high streets
Join Vahni Capildeo on a reflective walk along the Edinburgh coastline
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Jon Ransom joins us on the podcast
NCW announces new three-year partnership with the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA
Lisa McInerney to chair the Prize, joined by Chitra Ramaswamy and Simon Savidge
Staying connected during Covid-19
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Get a virtual round in with this ode to the East Anglian pub community
Try this writing exercise and bring the power of the senses to your nature writing
A powerful new poem reflecting on 2020, the strangest of years, and looking with renewed hope to the future
On finding confidence and an agent via the Escalator talent development scheme
Read a national poem of thanks to pubs by poet and actress Alexandra Ewing
Discussing his debut novel Love, Unscripted
Abi Daré on her techniques in The Girl With The Louding Voice
Thomas Heerma van Voss on the podcast
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Talking with the writers and producer on the podcast
The new annual prize for chronically ill or disabled writers
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