Bookpost! Fitzcarraldo Editions

Tuesday 14th May is our annual MA Creative Writing Dissertation Day. The morning workshops, open to all, are given by the brilliant Paul Taylor-McCartney (Dr.) & Joe Bedford Details here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2024/02/creati… Register for your free place by email to [email protected] College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

My brief thoughts on Jean-Baptiste Del Amo's THE SON OF MAN (Fitzcarraldo Editions), a novel which reviewers have so far (imo) widely mislabelled and misunderstood. If you've read it, let me know what you think.

I'm posting a lot (unlike me) but it's PUBLICATION DAY for 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 (!) [1/4]

'We have always been struggling for a way to take back what has been stolen.' Thrilled to publish one of my favourite interviews so far, a *deep* dive into revenge, research methodology and MOTHER NAKED with the great Glen James Brown. Not to be missed. joebedford.co.uk/glen-james-bro…

For the weekday crowd, re-sharing my latest interview with Glen James Brown, who probably delves further into the nitty-gritty of the research process than anyone yet. Really wonderful insights into why we do research and what it is (and isn't) useful for.

Mother Naked is research heavy, but I tried doing something different with it. Here is an interview I did with the wonderful Joe Bedford talking Writers on Reseach. Real deep dives on 'the craft'. Check out all the interviews - they are ace x

My goodness, WHAT a read! So much wisdom and writerly insight packed into a single interview. I'm even more impatient now to dive into Glen's medieval County Durham mystery 👀

Absolutely fascinating discussion on one of the year's best novels.

With this ridiculous staged photograph I'm happy to say that today I finished the first draft of my next novel. It's about nature, race and national identity in 2020s Britain, and the ambivalent and sometimes violent ways these things interact. Hope to share it with you soon.

Wouldn't it be nice if the X algorithm showed you things you wanted to see? I found this incredible interview purely by accident, but it's too good not to share. I read Glen James Brown's #MotherNaked last month and it is every bit as absorbing and unique as it sounds.

Really excited for this Friday's newsletter - we speak to Stu Hennigan Dr Rachel Grosvenor: Author, Coach, Editor & Joe Bedford about their writing routines and the habits which have led to their prolific writing careers so far! Sign up: flyonthewallpress.substack.com

There's not long to until our deadline #WritingCommunity. Join us to celebrate the short story form and amplify the platforms making space for surprising and delightful original fiction.

Lovely to take a needed break from the work-in-prog to chat about writing routines and all things craft for Fly on the Wall Press's tres fascinating Substack, alongside the great Stu Hennigan and Dr Rachel Grosvenor: Author, Coach, Editor

The Cranes Are Flying (1957) "Mikhail Kalatozov’s style reminds me a lot of German expressionism, in terms of how geometric the sculpting of light & shadow is. But he employs this aesthetic to elicit emotions that are very tender & very soft." --- Isabel Sandoval

New review on Everybody's Reviewing by Joe Bedford of "Hope Never Knew Horizon" by Douglas Bruton everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2024/07/review… Taproot Press Creative Writing at Leicester Jonathan Taylor

Calm down

thrift store find

‘Louis Aragon & André Breton’, Man Ray, 1922

Phenomenal