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Literary Sisters: interview with Antonia Honeywell

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Literary Sisters: interview with Antonia Honeywell. February 17, 2015. And tomorrow is the launch day for Antonia’s debut novel,. She has been described by Maggie Gee as ‘a strikingly original new talent’ and has endorsements from Helen Dunmore, Laline Paull and M R Carey. I couldn’t be more proud. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson,. The Ship has such an original premise. Tell us where the idea came from and how the novel began to take shape in your mind. Antonia: I don’t think of the world of. In a ...

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Happenings

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From ‘Flogging a Dead Horse’ (1993) Paul Reas. In collaboration with First Story (North West), I’ll be running a workshop at an inter-schools event at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford. We’ll be using images from Paul Reas’ exhibition ‘Day Dreaming About the Good Times? 8217; as a starting point. It’s a fascinating retrospective, which explores class and culture in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s. There’s more information on the gallery’s website. Subscribe to my blog. Fab to see @emmacsweeney.

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‘I Have a Dream….’

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8216;I Have a Dream….’. January 14, 2015. What do these words mean to you? The phrase was the focus for a secondary school event I attended at the University of Huddersfield last week. The students, all participants in the First Story. About equality. And then we listened to a cheesy Abba song. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Previous post: Is prewriting like pre-cooking? Next post: Literary Sisters: interview with Antonia Honeywell. Subscribe to my blog. Fab to see @emmacsweeney. Sarah Maso...

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The prewriting toolkit: daydreaming

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The prewriting toolkit: daydreaming. December 30, 2014. At the National Association of Writers in Education, for instance, daydreaming featured as the most popular prewriting activity perhaps because we all do quite a lot of it, much of the time. What are the benefits of daydreaming? Can we learn how to daydream? Scott Kaufman, ‘ Dreams of Glory. While many of us daydream, much of the time, we might be unaware of its potency. It’s fascinating to think how daydreaming might be harnessed in this way fo...

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Literary Sisters: interview with Joanna Campbell

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Literary Sisters: interview with Joanna Campbell. April 30, 2015. Occasionally, as an editor, you come across a novel that really shines. Joanna Campbell’s debut,. Tying Down the Lion. Published on 15 June by Brick Lane Publishing. Is one such novel. It came to me through Cornerstones. You write short stories, as well as novels. Can you talk us through the difference in process between the short and long forms of fiction? With short stories I tease out the essence of the characters within a moment in the...

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Interviews

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Literary Sisters: interview with Deirdre Quiery. August 11, 2015. This week sees the publication of another exciting debut by an author with whom I’ve worked closely as mentor and structural editor. It was a pleasure to work with Deirdre Quiery on. Eden Burning. S. Et in 1970s Belfast, it traces the story of two families riven by conflict and yet, in the end, brought to a redemptive resolution. This might make it sound more like. Click to continue…]. Literary Sisters: interview with Joanna Campbell.

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Literary Sisters: interview with Deirdre Quiery

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Literary Sisters: interview with Deirdre Quiery. This week sees the publication of another exciting debut by an author with whom I’ve worked closely as mentor and structural editor. It was a pleasure to work with Deirdre Quiery on. Eden Burning. S. Et in 1970s Belfast, it traces the story of two families riven by conflict and yet, in the end, brought to a redemptive resolution. This might make it sound more like. How do you juggle writing with other work? He looked at me with a smile that would melt an i...

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A comic, cross-cultural road trip: Tying Down the Lion by Joanna Campbell

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A comic, cross-cultural road trip: Tying Down the Lion by Joanna Campbell. June 9, 2015. It’s here that the epigram of Joanna Campbell’s wonderful debut,. Tying Down the Lion. Is it possible to reconcile different halves of the self, English and German, when Britain is still reeling from the fallout of the Second World War? Every incident that happens on the road trip, every revelation, both challenges and endorses Jacqueline’s perception of herself. The novel’s ethnographer, she records what she lea...

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Literary Dystopias

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November 19, 2014. This week, I’m posting a podcast on literary dystopias (from the Guardian Books series), with Canadian author Emily St John Mandel and Clemens J Setz. I’ve always loved novels that look to the future, reconfiguring how society is organised and how technology impacts on daily life. For that reason, I count Margaret Atwood’s. The Handmaid’s Tale. The Testament of Jessie Lamb. And Sarah Hall’s. Which is due out in February next year. Sign in with Twitter. Sign in with Facebook. Commonword...

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Writing

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Published by Crocus Books. Available to order in the UK from Amazon. And from Amazon in the United States. What would it be like to live in a marriage where you share your life, your family, your husband – your bedroom – with another woman? Two wives, one husband, one relationship – and a tangled web of love and secrets:. Is a dramatic story about a poygamous marriage set in an isolated religious community. 8216;A beautiful debut. The Confession of Katherine Howard. Former Commissioning Editor at Penguin.