Heavy Weather
From our Arts Council mentoring scheme, Kate Keogan blogs on finalising her poetry pamphlet and the editorial practices that can make it so hard for ‘new voices’ to get heard …
DIRT Publishing x BBC Radio Gloucestershire
JLM Morton chats to Jon Smith on BBC Radio Glos, all about DIRT, our new venture into indie publishing, and how we’re trying to reduce isolation for rural writers.
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Wordsworth Write-Walk
Wordsworth dated his Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour the 13th July 1798 and this year, on the same date, we walked in his footsteps. Philip Rush looks back at this recent extreme writing workshop.
Pamphlet Purgatory
From our Arts Council mentoring scheme, Kate Keogan blogs on accountability and showing up at the page.
Letting Go
Dialect mentee Audrey Healy on realising that the best thing she could do for her writing might be to let her novel go …
Poetry and the Art of Journaling
Poet Diana Humphrey on her experience of two recent Dialect poetry courses
As I swam out one midsummer morning
Post-pandemic, I had resolved to say “yes” to opportunities. Next step: borrow a wetsuit … travel writer Deborah Gray on joining a Dialect Swim-Write Workshop
Beware Strong Currents
Kate Thomas, a participant on one of our recent Swim-Writes on the Thames in June 2021 produced this stunning poetry film in response to our workshop.
Emotion recollected in mild agitation
Kate Keogan on meeting up with her fellow mentees and the inescapable intensity of the writer’s gaze …
Finding the Right Fit
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.
Gold Stars and Marble Jars
Kate Keogan blogs on seasonality in writing life and the efficacy of childish motivational strategies…
Square With The House
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.
DIRT: plantable poetry
Dialect is seeking to launch a new publishing imprint and we need your help!
Squaring Up: on working with a pro
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.
Reflections and Memories
Katie Lloyd-Nun reflects on her recent experience of a swim-write workshop at Lake 32
Rings Around the Lake
Writer in Residence Stephen Connolly blogs about finding inspiration at the lake after a three month absence
Back to Lake 32
‘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