"Before winning, the thought of one day becoming a published author felt like a bit of a ‘pipe dream’ maybe; since winning, it feels like anything is possible!"

"The Thames has always seemed so daunting and unstoppable, yet at the same time a sign of depth and history."

Multi-award winning author says you have to "trust your gut and write it your way, do it your way and break all the rules"

West Yorkshire writer succeeds Carol Ann Duffy as poet laureate – and is paid in sherry

Helen Bowell talks us through her latest projects, opportunities in arts administration and lots of delightful poetry things!

We catch up with Alexandros Plasatis, an immigrant ethnographer who writes fiction in English, his second language, and recently completed a project for Writing East Midlands working with refugees and asylum seekers.

Looking for reading inspiration this month? Check out our round-up of what's going on in books this month!

What's new in fiction for August? Check out what to add to your summer reading list. 

An intriguing mish-mash of energetic dialogue and spoken word portrays this often amusing story of an unreliable narcissist who just doesn’t know themselves as well as they think they do. 

The best in books for July

We chat to Ian Carrington a.k.a Fat Roland, the events and marketing officer for the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, music journalist and comedian, about live literature, bleepy music and how the *bleep* he got into his career. 

With modern poets now reaching celebrity status, social media is heralding a new era for contemporary poetry.