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/
Friday 20th March 3pm - 4.15pm // Shock of the New
Friday 20th March 2pm - 2.30pm // Alex Preston
Friday 20th March 11.45am - 1pm // New Fiction: Kirsty Logan, James Scudamore and Kerry Young
Friday 20th March 10am - 11.15am // Literary Communities
Thurs 19 Mar 3.45pm-5pm //Next Generation:Rebecca Goss,Luke Kennard,Patience Agbabi & Zaffar Kunial
Thursday 19th March 2pm - 3.15pm // Digital Literatures with Bill Thompson
Thursday 19th March 12.30pm - 1pm // Eimear McBride and Stella Duffy
Living Translation: A National Conversation Event with Ali Smith
Kirsten Francis 'Reading, a tool for writing?' - Young People and Literature Symposium
Sam Ruddock on Reading - Young People and Literature Symposium
On Writers, Readers And Losing Our Minds - A National Conversation Event with Will Self
What is the Point of Books? A National Conversation Event with Michael Rosen
Worlds Literature Festival - George Szirtes Summing Up
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Xialou Guo
Kate Mosse: The Harriet Martineau Lecture
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Bernice Chauly
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Kerry Young
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Akhil Sharma
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - James Scudamore
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Wojciech Tochman
Join Podbean Ads Marketplace and connect with engaged listeners.
Advertise Today
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Voice of Mushfik
Lit Society: Books and Drama
Ex Libris
Anne of Green Gables
The War of the Worlds
Fresh Air
Myths and Legends