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/
Jon McGregor at Worlds Literature Festival 2011: an Afternoon Reading on the Novel
Manu Joseph at Worlds Literature Festival 2011: an Afternoon Reading on the Novel
John Boyne and Joseph O'Connor, Interview and Discussion for UNESCO City of Literature
Joseph O'Connor reading from his novel Ghost Light: Chapter Three
Joseph O'Connor reading from his novel Ghost Light: Chapter One
George Szirtes Plenary at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Natsuki Ikezawa at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Alfred Birnbaum at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Maureen Freely at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Tuesday 21st June 2011
Joyelle McSweeny at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Monday 20th June 2011
CK Williams at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Monday 20th June 2011
Chris Merrill at the Worlds Literature Festival Salon: Monday 20th June 2011
Summer Reads - Q&A at the Millennium Library
Simon Armitage - an interview with WCN's Sam Ruddock
Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan, poetry reading at the WCN Salon with Kate Griffin
Usha Rajagopalan, poetry reading at the WCN Salon with Kate Griffin
Antoinette Fawcett, poetry reading at the WCN Salon with Kate Griffin
Amaia Gabantxo, poetry reading at the WCN Salon with Kate Griffin
Guy Saville speaks at the launch of his novel, Afrika Reich
Christopher Gribble's introduction at the launch of Guy Saville's novel - The Afrika Reich
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