This episode is a Writing Life special, featuring an hour of new writing read by the writers on this year’s National Centre for Writing Escalator programme - recorded earlier this year at the showcase event, here at Dragon Hall.
Escalator is our talent development programme. And each year, we look for ambitious, challenging, unconventional and affecting new voices in fiction writing from the East of England. The region is made up of a diverse society of people, and supporting writers who are under-represented on UK bookshelves has become a core objective of the project.
The programme has been running since 2004 and includes eight months of mentoring, training, guidance and networking for participants. To date we’ve supported more than 130 writers, many of whom have gone on to sign with agents, publish and win awards and critical recognition for their novels and short stories.
We had a fantastic group of writers in 2022 and we hosted them here for the annual Escalator Showcase event where they all read from their work. This is the audio from that event.
https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/escalator/
Worlds 15 Provocation: Sigitas Parulskis, Translated by Romas Kinka
Worlds 15 Provocation: Mamta Sagar
Worlds Literature Festival 2015: Readings by Amit Chaudhuri, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Anna Funder
Worlds Literature Festival 2015: Readings by Liz Berry and D. W. Wilson
Worlds 15 Provocation: Vesna Goldsworthy
Worlds 15 Provocation: D. J. Taylor
Worlds Literature Festival 2015: Readings by Marion Molteno and Kyoko Yoshida
Worlds Literature Festival 2015: Readings by Cathy Cole and C. J. Driver
Worlds 15 Provocation: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Brave New Reads with Badgerlands author Patrick Barkham
Brave New Reads with Fallen Land author Patrick Flanery
Worlds 15 Provocation: Christopher Bigsby
Worlds Literature Festival 2015: Readings by Mamta Sagar and Jack Wang
NNF15: The Tooth and Claw Debate: Raptors
Masha Gessen: The Harriet Martineau Lecture
NNF15: The Gothic Imagination with Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry
Saturday 21st March 1.45pm – 2.05pm // The Networked World
Saturday 21st March 11.30am - 12.45pm // Short Stories
Friday 20th March - 7.30pm // Wild Words with Jeanette Winterson & Helen Macdonald
Saturday 21st March 9.45am - 11am // Nonfiction and Memoir
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