From our Arts Council supported mentoring scheme, Keely O’Shaughnessy blogs on feeling the pinch - the discomfort and joy of working with mentor Mahsuda Snaith.

Kate Keogan blogs on seasonality in writing life and the efficacy of childish motivational strategies…

Stephen Connoly concludes his blog series as this month’s Dialect x Waterland writer in residence with some reflections on the process of writing, editing, rehearsing, performing and recording his radio play, Square With The House, from scratch.

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Writer in Residence Steve Connolly continues his series of blogs on the writing process as he finalises the script for his forthcoming radio play, Square With The House.

Katie Lloyd-Nun reflects on her recent experience of a swim-write workshop at Lake 32

Writer in Residence Stephen Connolly blogs about finding inspiration at the lake after a three month absence

‘Tired… and slightly balder’ after a recurrent brush with Non-Hodgkinsons Lymphoma, writer in residence Stephen Connoly blogs - in signature understated style - on being back in business at the lake

Kate Keogan, one of our Arts Council supported mentees, on the ups and downs of the writerly Zoomscape

Sarah Hemings, one of our Arts Council supported mentees, on writing in the small gaps that motherhood yields and having the time of her life.

Writer in residence Jacqui Stearn on walking her way into writing and the power of getting lost.

Dialect's #IWD2021 One Minute Wonders - a video series showcasing the work of women who write #ChooseToChallenge

Fiction writer Keely O’Shaughnessy, one of our Arts Council supported mentees, blogs about what it’s like to be a writer living with a disability.

“Despite being a voracious reader and keen writer of stories, I never envisaged being a writer – whether as a hobby or anything more. It was a niche and unobtainable pursuit like being an astronaut or a Hollywood actor.”

‘You know that ice-breaker question, if you had a super-power, what would it be? I usually pick photosynthesis.’ Kate Keoghan blogs about sparring with anxiety and the development of her work as a Dialect mentee with poet Pascale Petit.

“A month into the Dialect mentoring programme and my writing practice has been turned upside down. No, really. It has. And in a good way.” In her first blog for Dialect, Audrey Healey writes about being mentored by novelist Melanie Golding.

Alice Oswald has described her work as a listening, a way of forcing a poem open to what lies bodily beyond it. In the first poem for his Dialect x Waterland #residency, Alun Hughes shares the result of a form of listening, writing in and about place.