Tag Archives: NYWF

All the somebody people (a round-up of some lit stuff going on here, there, everywhere)

Here’s 5th Wall’s most excellent wrap-up of This is Not Art and the National Young Writers Festival. And here are some more of Estelle’s awesome interviews from NYWF.
Katie Jacobs’ dispatches from Ubud, are being featured on Beattie’s Book Blog. Bookman – I met your lovely correspondent, hopefully one day I’ll meet you too!
I’ll blog more about [...]

Hello busy lady, what have you been up to? Festivals!

Madness, and much excitement.
In October I am off to the National Young Writers Festival and the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, back to back – seven panels.
And the past month has been one of changes and revelations – but more on those in time.
Now, I would like to tell you what I am doing at [...]

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Good-weekend lit-lovelies,
Check out the crowd in the reading room! You can view some more pictures from The Death Mook launch here. This was absolutely the highlight of my week. I had to have a few wines before reading to deal with the nerves, damn them, and because there was such a big crowd! Dion and Lisa sold [...]

‘So, How Was the National Young Writers’ Festival?’

Unfortunately I didn’t make it to NYWF this year, an annual literary alchoholic-ginger-beer-fuelled fest held in Newcastle as part of This is Not Art (TiNA). So I asked a few friends to share an experience or two of their weekend in early October.
Amy Vought Barker:
Our remix masterclass was great. We did cut ups of Danielle [...]