PODCAST: Writing About Love

In this episode of The Maddie Mortimer talks about how she writes about love, from the intimate and tender to the physical and visceral, from the romantic to the familial.

In this episode of The Writing Life, Maddie Mortimer talks about how she writes about love, from the intimate and tender to the physical and visceral, from the romantic to the familial.

This is part of our Early Career Writers’ Resources pack on Love, including exercises, this podcast and an article, all covering the broad topic of writing about love. Our Resources packs are generously supported by Arts Council England. Discover more here →

Maddie is the author of Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies which won her a Desmond Elliott Prize this year.

The first part of our conversation was about her Desmond Elliott Prize win, but we soon started talking about the novel, writing craft and writing love. This episode features the section of the conversation about writing love, from the intimate and tender to the physical and visceral, from the romantic to the familial.

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