Writers Helping Writers

In 2016, I set up WriteClub with the intention of creating a space for writers and non-writers to come and enjoy the process of putting pen to paper and setting words free. I began by running monthly workshops designed to celebrate the act of writing for its own sake – or as Henry Miller puts it, where writing could be [read more…]

I started the Poetry Non-Stop podcast last year to showcase the many poets I’ve got to know and like, and as a source of inspiration for others wanting to write poetry.        Poetry Non-Stop has its roots in 1990s Radio One when Mark Radcliffe’s late night show featured John Hegley, Simon Armitage, Ian McMillan and others reading poetry. [read more…]

July-August’s submissions reflect a change in tempo. Five months on since the pandemic entered our lives, attention has shifted from the external experience to internal worlds. Covid is no longer an explicit presence, but a ghost, a metaphor, its presence less visceral, but its shockwaves keenly felt. The uncertainty of living in a twilight world between isolation and the old [read more…]

11,891 minutes. According to Microsoft Word, that’s how long I have been working on the first draft of my novel. Although, I don’t know whether that includes the minutes I have spent with my Word document open, wistfully staring out of the window at the spring-time sky, or sitting with my head in my hands, my brain thumping against my [read more…]

This is a question I asked myself when lockdown began, and something I’d been asking myself for some time, being honest. As soon as lockdown set in, childcare became a never-ending cycle of thinking up amazing activities, preparing meals, constant washing and cleaning, a million cups of tea, and amidst all that, attempting to do some work and actually write [read more…]

Nick is writing a series of blogs for Paper Nations, looking at how the writing landscape is changing, and reporting back from the front line of writing support: what is ‘out there’ and how is it helping him develop as a writer and member of the writing community? With some caution, and no little sense of relief, we are moving [read more…]

We were overwhelmed by your responses to our call out for stories written from isolation or by those experiencing marginalisation. Every entry we published was beautifully crafted, original, insightful and offered a unique window into the experience of social isolation.        Not surprisingly perhaps, the largest number of submissions came under the category of Writers at Home and [read more…]

dialect /ˈdʌɪəlɛkt/ noun 1. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. “the Gloucestershire dialect seemed like a foreign language”   There’s long been a big gap to fall through for writers living on the margins and Dialect hopes to close it. Dialect will do this by providing exciting, great quality learning, [read more…]

100 Days of The Daily Haiku     Biography Amanda White is a writer and creative practitioner whose published work includes poetry collections by Flambard Press, children’s books with Barefoot Books, travel guides with Time Out and short film scripts with director Andrew Gillman. About The Daily Haiku: As a writer and creative practitioner specialising in arts for health, at [read more…]