Dialect’s nominated Word Space mentee Emma Kernahan on mentoring and the power of community for rural writers

Acting and vocal coach Adam Fotheringham on the power of bringing your unique imagination and presence to the stage when performing your work.

DIRT, our new carbon neutral ecopoetry publishing imprint is launching this December – in true pamphleteering style, our aim is to bring together pairs of poets to collaborate and produce poems printed on plantable broadsheets to persuade, beguile and enchant. Alice Willitts writes about her collaboration with JLM Morton for this first, prototype edition.

Is there such a thing as rural writing? Launching our Anthology 2022.

Gloucestershire Poet Laureate Z.D. Dicks takes a moment to reflect on his poetic practice

After a recent house move, Méadbh Bruce reflects on a writer’s relationship with place.

Flash fiction writer, Keely O’Shaughnessy explores the space between acceptance of a manuscript and launch day.

In the last of three posts on the creation of his debut pamphlet collection, Down the Heavens, Alun Hughes invites us on a walk to where it began and considers how the land inhabits us with songlines that become keys to ecological regeneration and cultural renewal.

As she continues her work on the London Library’s ‘Emerging Writers’ programme, rural writer Electra Rhodes blogs on the moral maze of privilege in writing and publishing.

Author Oliver Randall on his journey to self-publication

Writer and children’s services consultant, Heather Stack, on how writing weaves a thread through our lives, uniting the past, present and future, affirming our creative identity.

Waiting for rain, waiting for a baby, waiting for the right words for a novel. Writer Rym Kechacha asks what makes us want to grow a novel? And what do we do when the conditions are far less than perfect?

Claire Collison on whetting the poetic appetite with the right title.

Author and soil scientist Jennifer Jones explores the dissonance between writing that seems attractive to potential readers, but not to publishers. She presents the evidence for positive comments from publishers … followed by rejection.

Sally Jenkinson considers vulnerability, vulgarity, and viscera in the writing of women she admires, and their supportive influence on her writing process for Pantomime Horse, Russian Doll, Egg.

Poet Alun Hughes describes his perception of place via nature-based practice and his attempts to ‘language’ the times.

Summer was supposed to be for writing. Sound familiar? Anna Brizzolara, reflects on what she has or rather has not achieved and what that means for her creative practice.

Flash fiction author Keely O’Shaughnessy discusses creativity, how she generated stories for her collection, and how idyllic surroundings can sometimes present unexpected challenges.

The first in a triplet of posts, flash fiction writer and former Dialect mentee Keely O’Shaughnessy guides us through the birth of her debut collection, Baby is a Thing Best Whispered.