Season 4 of the podcast kicks off by delving into the ins and outs of adventure stories. The author of Vipers and Red Rocks and Retaliation Mountain, as well as the pulp series The Noah Redford Adventures, L.S. Goozdich, is in charge of this edition.

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The podcast’s run at Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024 ends on an unusual note as it delves into life writing and memoir for the first time. Journalist and memoirist Beverley Glick is in the hotseat, discussing the distinction between memoir and autobiography, and what – if any – topics are off-limits for life writing?

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Award-winning poet and MA Creative Writing and Publishing alumna Emilie Fiirgaard Rasmussen dropped by the podcast’s digs at Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024 to discuss how one defines their own poetic voice.

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Continuing the podcast’s mini run at Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024, it’s the turn of scent expert and author Liam R. Findlay to join the show. Liam discusses the oft-forgotten smell sense and its role in descriptive writing and the role it plays in his book, The Doomtown Dummies.

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Joining the show in person shortly after her talk at Bournemouth Writing Festival 2024, novelist, screenwriter and writing coach Lucy V Hay chats for a bit about the skills that transfer well between writing prose and for screen.

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In 2024, the podcast went to Bournemouth Writing Festival and produced a mini-series of episodes featuring some of the writers and facilitators on the programme. But first, the festival’s director and founder Dominic Wong joins the show to discuss the benefits of attending a writing event.

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The podcast draws the curtain on another season by reuniting with another bunch of previous guests: Content warning: Contains occasional uses of moderate language.

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Musician and composer Jordan Pace is the man behind the soundtracks for various short films, documentaries and more. In this episode, he sheds light on the ways in which soundtracks and scores are used to assist the storytelling process.

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How do you go from a story idea to the formation of an entire TV series? An ambition for our host and a reality for screenwriter Ryan Avery, who reflects on the writing process of over 400 pages of TV series script. Plus, he debunks the storytelling and character development flaws in certain popular serials.…

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We all know a good horror movie when we see one, and we heard last season about how to write horror in novels and short stories. But what about in theatre? What are the creative considerations required to successfully write something scary for the stage? New York playwright Justin McDevitt shares his expertise in writing…

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