John Jarrold Masterclass write-up by Sarah Hindmarsh
Sunday 6th of September. It’s 3:30pm and a small crowd are gathered in the event space at the Nottingham Writers’ Studio eagerly awaiting a masterclass to commence. I call it a masterclass partly...
View ArticleFrom Helping Fight Crime to Helping Write Crime
When I retired from the Police service in 2012, having served 30 years in London and the East Midlands, I wanted to continue helping people. As a large part of my career had been spent as a Detective,...
View ArticleUKYA Extravaganza Blog Tour – Lisa Williamson
What is the UKYA Extravaganza? It’s a party for YA authors and their audience, at Waterstones Nottingham, on October 7th at 1pm… and the UKMG Extravaganza will come to Nottingham’s Central Library the...
View Article#BeingHuman: Digital Storytelling: When, why, how?
“If the 20th century was about the quest for knowledge, the 21st century is about experience.” As a devout reader of physical books and someone whose idea of heaven is loitering around libraries and...
View ArticleReflections on Self-publishing versus Independent Presses with Alan Williams
On the 8th October we hosted All Things Indie Day with Teika Bellamy. The aim of the day was to discuss and explore the options and issues arising in deciding between self-publishing and independent...
View ArticleOutsider Heart: An Interview with Trevor Wright
Local poet, Trevor Wright, is a member of Nottingham Writers’ Studio. His debut poetry collection ‘Outsider Heart’ has just been published by Big White Shed. When did you start writing poetry and...
View ArticleAn Interview with Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin is an esteemed novelist, short story writer, and creative writing tutor specialising in narrative technique and historical fiction. She will be visiting Nottingham on the 1st July to...
View ArticleHello from ‘Hello Words’ by Lynda Clark
I’ve had the idea for an interactive fiction writers’ group kicking around for a while. I knew there must be people like me out there somewhere: people who didn’t really know how to code but had an...
View ArticleThe Art of Finding Yourself: An Interview with Fiona Robertson
Fiona Robertson is a writer, trainer and facilitator. Her collection of essays: The Art of Finding Yourself: Live Bravely and Awaken to Your True Nature has recently been published in the US and the...
View ArticleInspiration, Productivity, and Publishing: an Interview with Kristina Adams
Kristina Adams is an author of women’s fiction, and nonfiction. She also writes poetry (when she has time), and blogs about writing and productivity. Her second book, What Happens in London, is out...
View Article7 Signs You Might be a Writer
1. The stationery aisle gets you excited There’s nothing like the smell of a brand new notepad, or the feel of a new pen between your fingers. Somehow you seem to leave them lying around all over the...
View Article5 Reasons to Join Nottingham Writers’ Studio
Have you walked past the Studio, or heard about us and wondered what we are all about? Here it is—a summary of what we do and how we can help professional and aspiring writers alike, with five reasons...
View ArticleFantastical Beasts and How to Make Them
Dragons, flying bisons, heffalumps, hobbits, even the oompa-loompas, readers love them. Fantastical beasts are everywhere. Imaginary and mythological creatures are as much a part of fantasy literature...
View ArticleIndie Book of the Moment: The Forgotten and the Fantastical 4
This eagerly awaited volume of short fairy tales, folk tales and fables was launched by Mother’s Milk Books on the 26th of May 2018. This edition contains fourteen original stories by both established...
View ArticleRecommended Books on Writing
David Bowman kindly posted a list of books about writing that he would recommend on the Ruby Tuesdays Fiction Group list, and I thought this would be of general interest to members, so am also posting...
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The Writers’ Bookshelf
by Deborah Bailey Books on writing are their own type of dangerous seduction. Reading them feels so productive, it’s easy to convince yourself that you are, in fact, working. Not that writing books...
View ArticleCritiquing, Part 1: Why critique?
by Deborah Bailey Does anything engender a bigger love-hate relationship than hearing all the ways your glorious creation falls short of all that, well, glory that was there, really guv, when you...
View ArticleCritiquing Skills 2: How to Critique – by Deborah Bailey
Critiquing is a skill. That means that not only can it be learned, but also that, like any skill, there is a definite learning curve. Think of it like learning to be a doctor. Trainees aren’t simply...
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Are you an entrepreneur? Joanna Penn Workshop report
Joanna Penn challenged participants in her recent workshop, How to Make a Living from your writing, to be both entrepreneurial and ambitious. In the light of recent reports of the financial...
View ArticleFrom Helping Fight Crime to Helping Write Crime
When I retired from the Police service in 2012, having served 30 years in London and the East Midlands, I wanted to continue helping people. As a large part of my career had been spent as a Detective,...
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