Daisy Lafarge, Stephanie Sy-Quia and I were the judges of this year's Society of Authors Betty Trask Awards. Congratulations to the winner of the Betty Trask Prize, Ashani Lewis, for Winter Animals, and to the shortlisted authors, Bonnie Burke-Patel, Madeline Docherty, Genevieve Jagger, Elizabeth O’Connor, and Nicolas Padamsee.
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18 June 2025
2 June 2025
I am teaching two more six-week online writing workshops with Naomi Wood, beginning this evening. More courses to follow...
25 February 2025
I am teaching a six-week online writing workshop with Naomi Wood, beginning this evening. More courses to follow...
16 February 2024
I'll be on BBC Radio 4's World at One today to discuss creativity with Ed Stourton and neuroscientist Dr Helen Nuttall.
23 November 2023
I'll be talking to the Corby Creative Minds Writing Group tonight at Danesholme Community Centre, Corby.
20 October 2023
Jeremy Noel-Tod's latest substack article is on my pots and prose.
31 August 2023
Today, I'm happy to say, I'm retiring from teaching and leaving UEA.
22 August 2023
The second, revised edition of my book The Art of Writing Fiction is published by Routledge today.
22 February 2023
I am interviewing Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ about her new novel, A Spell Of Good Things, at the National Centre for Writing this evening.
25 January 2023
I'm reading tonight at the launch of Lighthouse #25: the Contemporary Working Class Writing issue
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