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 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
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Owen Sheers
Worlds Literature Festival Provocation - Denise Riley
Summer Reads Event with Kei Miller
Summer Reads Authors Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor In Conversation
Summer Reads author Kei Miller reads from 'A Light Song of Light'
SJ Watson's Writing Tips
An interview with SJ Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep.
Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair Discuss Writing and Protest for Words & Ideas
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Faith and Reason with Alain de Botton at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Worlds Literature Festival Salon Provocation 8: George Szirtes
Worlds Literature Festival Salon Provocation 7: Geoff Dyer
Worlds Literature Festival Salon Provocation 6: Masashi Matsuie with Michael Emmerich
Worlds Literature Festival Salon Provocation 5: Peng Lun with Eric Abrahamsen
Worlds Literature Festival Salon Provocation 3: Marcel Möring
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