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.

‘What if nothing came, what if no words appeared on the page, what if I couldn’t conjure up a sense of place?’ Hannah Persaud, our Dialect x Waterland writer in residence for February, writes about the experience of being a locked-down digital resident.

Something Purple, a radio play by Steve Connoly