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National Centre for Writing

The Writing Life

Henry Sutton, co-director of the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, joins us on the pod to discuss this year's amazing festival line-up and dive into the themes being explored this September.

Tickets for Noirwich are available now at https://noirwich.co.uk

Hosted by Simon Jones.

Find out more about our work at https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

Music by Bennet Maples.

Henry Sutton On Noirwich 2019

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 earlier this year.

Today's interview is timed to coincide with the release of issue 53 of In Other Words, the literary translation journal. You can find out more about it on our website.

Chris interviewed Jeremy on a panel in the Literary Translation Centre at LBF.

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Find out more:

Primadonna Festival - https://www.primadonnafestival.com/
Noirwich - https://noirwich.co.uk/
Val McDermid's International Literature Showcase - https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ils/
In Other Words - https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ncw-publications/in-other-words/
Creative Writing Online - https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/online-courses/

Jeremy Tiang photo by Edward Hill.
Music by Bennet Maples.

Jeremy Tiang, Writer And Translator

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 forces with the Royal Society of Literature to offer a week-long residency at Dragon Hall to address this: giving a female-identifying writer the time, space and support to write whatever they wanted.

Alicia Morgan was selected from many amazing submissions. She is a poet, playwright, performer and culture maker now based here in Norwich. She talks with Steph about being an active part of the underground New York punk scene in the 80s and 90s, working as a journalist and her move into fiction.

Follow her on Instagram @alicia13morgan

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Find out about writer opportunities at https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

Music by Bennet Maples.

Alicia Morgan in a Room of Her Own

"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 revealed International Literature Showcase selection of UK-based LGBTQI+ writers.

The International Literature Showcase is produced in partnership with the British Council. Find out more at https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ils/

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Music by Bennet Maples.

Val McDermid's 10 compelling LGBTQI+ writers in the UK

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 bookshops and speak to the people who work there: Julia Danskin of The Golden Hare and Mairi Oliver from Lighthouse Books.

Apologies for some of the audio quality in the first interview: due to being on location we didn't have access to our usual equipment!

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Golden Hare Books: https://goldenharebooks.com/
Lighthouse Books: https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/
The International Literature Showcase: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/ils

Find out more about what we do: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/

Music by Bennet Maples

The Golden Hare And Lighthouse Bookshops

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 Writing Festival we got her on the pod to discuss techniques for crafting characters for crime fiction.

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Find out more about Noirwich: https://noirwich.co.uk
Book onto Claire's workshop: https://noirwich.co.uk/the-line-up/#event-200-details
Claire's website: https://www.ink-stains.co.uk/
Primadonna Festival: https://www.primadonnafestival.com/

Noirwich is a partnership project between the National Centre for Writing and the University of East Anglia.

Music by Bennet Maples.

Writing crime fiction protagonists with Claire McGowan

How do you start a new bookshop in 2019? Leanne Fridd from Bookbugs & Dragon Tales tells us about her new children's bookshop and why she left a comfortable job to start a new business.

Meanwhile, Steph and Simon catch up about the first Primadonna Festival, which took place last weekend in Suffolk.

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Sign up to our newsletter: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/

https://bookbugsanddragontales.com/
https://primadonnafestival.com

Music by Bennet Maples.

Starting an indie bookshop + Primadonna Festival

Jeremy Tiang returns to the pod, this time accompanied by fellow translator Anton Hur and Kate Griffin. In this wide-ranging chat they take in their inaugural Dragon Hall translator residencies, the BCLT summer school, how mentorships can help people getting into translation, the work of Tilted Axis, the history of Singapore and queer Korean literature.

The residencies were supported by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea.

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Find out more about our work at https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
Get your Noirwich tickets: https://noirwich.co.uk

http://www.jeremytiang.com/
https://antonhur.com/
http://www.bclt.org.uk/summer-school
https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/emerging-translator-mentorships/
https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/article/erasing-histories/
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/
https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/june-2019-korean-queer-korean-litearture-is-stepping-outanton-hur
http://www.cedilla.company/
https://smokingtigers.com/
https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/focus-on-literary-translation-collectives-an-interview-with-the-smoking-tigers/

Music by Bennet Maples.

Translators Jeremy Tiang & Anton Hur

Today we have something particularly special on the pod, in the form of George Alagiah's 2019 Noirwich Lecture.

George is of course best known for his journalistic work with the BBC, in particular as presenter of BBC News at Six. He's just released his first work of fiction, The Burning Land, and in his lecture he talks about the power of fiction to better illuminate facts, and how the book complements the factual work he's done as a journalist throughout his career.

Hosted by Simon Jones.

Find out more about Noirwich: https://noirwich.co.uk
What we do: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
UEA: https://www.uea.ac.uk/

Music by Bennet Maples.

Fiction & Fact: George Alagiah's 2019 Noirwich Lecture

The King of Helsinki Crime and the 'funniest writer in Europe' Antti Tuomainen joins us on the pod to talk about his books including The Man Who Died and Little Siberia, plus how the crime fiction genre is the perfect engine for telling stories.

Many thanks to the Finnish Literature Exchange (FILI) for supporting Antti's visit to the UK.

Meanwhile, Steph and Simon introduce the Early Career Awards, launched TODAY, including the news that we are now running the Desmond Elliott Prize.

We also share the writing prompt from our first drop-in writing session; "Out of the ashes rose..." Fill in the rest by sending us your microfiction responses on Twitter @writerscentre!

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna.

Find out more: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

Early Career Awards: http://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/early-career-awards/
Noirwich: noirwich.co.uk

Changing direction with Antti Tuomainen

Today we have an interview with Mandy Stanley, a children's author and illustrator who has created a huge number of books over her career. Although she was traditionally published by the likes of HarperCollins, for her latest book in the Lettice series she decided to self-publish. We talked to her about why she took that route, and her top tips for anybody looking to self-publish their own children's picture books.

Hosted by Simon Jones and Steph McKenna from Dragon Hall in Norwich.

Find out more about our work at https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

Mandy's website: http://mandystanley.com

Music by Bennet Maples.

How to self-publish children's picture books with Mandy Stanley

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