An Alternative Writing Retreat
In early 2018 Lawrence James Bailey made a four-day journey on foot and bicycle around the periphery of Amsterdam. Along the way he made notes and took many photographs. Eventually they formed a written piece which reflected his experiences in Amsterdam’s edgelands…
SJ Bradley participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about the theme park, the Northern Short Story Festival, and writing both short things and long.
It’s so easy to gaze disparagingly, even mournfully, on the site of an LPG tank in a garden. Easy to consider it misplaced, miscreant, a boil on the face of a view. An objection at a local planning meeting to its placement was met with a wry smile…
Journalist Mackenzie Weinger travels in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy, through the partly real, partly dream-country that inspired his fiction…
Gaynor Jones participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about making the complex simple, Alton Towers memories, and how fear becomes creativity.
Claire Fuller participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about abandoned structures, sculpting, and how her writing career began…
Dawn Hart participated in the Heathrow Airport Residency in September 2018. We spoke to her about another recent residency, her MA studies, and beekeeping.
Sean Wai Keung participated in the Heathrow Airport Residency in September 2018. We spoke to him about identity, food, poetry, and editing…
Christine Donovan participated in the Heathrow Airport Residency in September 2018. We spoke to her about anarchism, parkour, and walking as a creative practise…
Ed Garland participated in the Heathrow Airport Residency in September 2018. We spoke to him about sound in fiction, his studies, and his essay collection…