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Singaporean writer, archivist and educator Jennifer Anne Champion explores the intersections of textile art and the written word.
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Visible Communities virtual writer in residence Sawad Hussain shares her advice.
National Centre for Writing and British Council award funding as part of the International Literature Showcase
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The National Centre for Writing is delighted to announce the mentees selected for the 2021-22 Literary Translator Mentorships Programme
Essential advice from translator Nazry Bahrawi
On the Writing Life podcast
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In conversation with Alice Kent
Try this writing exercise to experiment with style in your fiction
The 2021 Noirwich Crime Writing Festival lecture
Novelist and short story writer Tomoka Shibasaki collaborates with Japanese translator and writer Polly Barton
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Simon K Jones shares his tips for wrangling large manuscripts
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Discussing the concept of hope on the podcast
Lewis Buxton discusses publishing his first poetry collection
With literary translators Shash Trevett and Geetha Sukumaran
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Talking on the podcast to Rebecca DeWald
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The writing and politics of A Small Man’s England
Try this writing exercise to generate new material for a short story
A deep dive with Sarah Ardizzone, Jamie Lee Searle & Rosie Eyre
Norfolk’s largest annual creative writing competition for young people aged 11-18
Talking to Molly-Rose Medhurst on the podcast
East Anglian Book Awards Overall Book of the Year 2020 winner, A.M. Howell, reflects on the past year
Join us in reading In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Essential writing tips for the podcast!
The historical fiction novel is praised by judges as ‘clever and unexpected’
Award-winning poet and short story writer Jen Campbell is on the pod
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‘A catalogue of firmly grounded visionaries, writing with mind, heart, and soul.
Tell us who your favourite indie bookshop is and why
Kei Miller’s selection of writers for the International Literature Showcase
Plus a preview of the International Literature Showcase 2021!
by Mikael Johani
by Alana-Marie Gopaul
by Dike Chukwumerije
by Pooja Nansi
by Mehr Husain
by Luka Grigolia
by Paul Bradley-Cong
by Sharmilla Beezmohun
by Diana Santiago
by Lyndsey Fineran
Creator of Babylon5 and Sense8 on the podcast
Talking with Vicki Maitland on the podcast
Join us and share your passion for reading
Try this writing exercise to explore point of view and setting
Three books are in the running to win the £10,000 prize and be named the year’s best first novel from across the UK and Ireland.
Explore the magic of the natural world, up close, with this free online resource
Joe Hedinger from independent bookshop The Book Hive hand-picks three books to get you out of your reading slump
An Imagining the City podcast
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
Heather Parry contextualises the work within our Weather With You series
Kerri ní Dochartaigh reflects on the experience of writing, dreaming and falling pregnant during a global pandemic
Jay Bernard’s immersive and unusual online soundscape blurs the boundaries between words, music and place
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
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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
Behind-the-scenes of the BAFTA Award-winning game
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
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Writer and journalist Marcin Wilk explores the independent bookshops of Norwich and examines the role that they play in our communities.
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