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Review of Book Blogging 101
Our talented guest speaker and blogger, Jackie Law headlined in February. Here’s part one of her blog about the event. Read Jackie’s review of the ...
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How to Keep Writing Your Novel ©Martine McDonagh
How to Keep Writing Your Novel ©Martine McDonagh I’m not one for offering tips, but as I struggle to reconvene working after a few weeks ...
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Novel Nights review by Dionne Hargreaves
Happy birthday Novel Nights – by Dionne Hargreaves Novels nights celebrated its fifth birthday in a way that it knows best. We were treated to ...
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Take Your Time by Dionne Hargreaves
Take your Time – by Dionne Hargreaves Nikesh Shukla advised writers to “Take your time” at Novel nights on 24th October, part of the Bristol ...
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Photo gallery from Novel Nights and Bristol Festival of Lit event with Nikesh Shukla
Our annual event programmed as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature is always a pleasure. The volunteer-led festival has been running for eight years. I was ...
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Write what you don’t know. Review of Emily Koch’s talk.
Blog by Dionne Hargreaves. The usual advice is to write what you know but author, Emily Koch suggested write about what you don’t know. Why? ...
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Audacious concept, breath-taking delivery – Review of If I Die Before I Wake
Emily Koch’s If I Die Before I Wake is an audacious concept for any writer. Alex is in hospital after a climbing accident, kept alive via life-support ...
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Review of How Far We Fall by Grace Palmer
A retelling of Macbeth. Jane Shemilt takes us inside the operating theatre and the animal lab, to Jura and to Hampstead Heath in this modern ...
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Review of Tyler Keevil’s talk, Music & The Muse by Amanda Read
How music can help writers Award-winning author, Tyler Keevil, brought music to a sultry summer NovelNights in Bristol. His talk explored how music can influence ...
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Spotlight on Foyles Bookshop
“It’s a myth that authors or publishers buy space on our tables,” said Pete Birchenough, bookseller and fiction buyer at Foyles Bookshop in Cabot Circus, ...
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Review of Tessa Hadley in conversation by Amanda Read
‘There is nothing more beautiful than clarity’ Tessa Hadley, acclaimed novelist and short story writer, was speaking to a capacity crowd at Novel Nights, June ...
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An evening of raw honesty by Colette Hill
The busy April session kicked off with three dazzling readings by professional wordsmiths – a playwright, a music writer and a fashion and beauty editor, ...