1st Edition

Writing Talk Interviews with Writers about the Creative Process

Edited By Derek Neale Copyright 2020
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Writing Talk includes interviews with nineteen well-known contemporary writers, exploring the ways in which they research and find their original ideas. Working across genres such as fiction, scriptwriting, radio, life writing, biography and more, the writers offer insight into how they interpret, hone and develop these ideas. The conversations examine the roles of technique, craft, language,... Read more

Introduction  1. Alan Ayckbourn  2. Andrew Cowan  3. Tanika Gupta  4. Jenny Diski  5. Iain Banks  6. Willy Russell  7. Patricia Duncker  8. Bryony Lavery  9. Kareem Mortimer  10. Michèle Roberts  11. David Edgar  12. Jane Rogers  13. Hanif Kureishi  14. Helen Blakeman  15. Richard Holmes  16. Louis de Bernières  17. Sarah Butler  18. Toby Litt  19. Sally Wainwright  20. Andrew Cowan – Reprise

Biography

Derek Neale is head of Creative Writing at The Open University and Higher Education Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education. A novelist, short story and script writer, he is editor of Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research. His publications include  A Creative Writing Handbook: Developing Dramatic Technique, Individual Style and Voice (2009), which he edited and co-wrote, and The Book of Guardians (2012). He has also co-authored three volumes for Routledge: Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings (2006 ed. Linda Anderson), Writing Fiction (2009) and Life Writing (2009).