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Season 2, episode 3: Helen Blakeman on writing for stage and screen
Season 2 Episode 3
In episode 3, BAFTA and International Emmy Award-winning writer Helen Blakeman tells us how she got established, why she's drawn to telling the stori…
4 years, 3 months ago
Season 2, episode 2: Daniel Hahn talks translation
Season 2 Episode 2
In episode 2, writer and editor Daniel Hahn tells us how he got into translating books, how to carve out a career in languages, and how essential tra…
4 years, 3 months ago
Season 2, episode 1: Anita Sethi on identity, nature and storytelling
Season 2 Episode 1
Authors' Matters is back for its second season! In this first episode, our host Caroline Sanderson talks to award-winning author and journalist Anita…
4 years, 3 months ago
Season 1, episode 10: Award-winning poet Karl Nova, SoA writing grants plus a record ALCS distribution
Season 1 Episode 10
In this episode of Authors' Matters, we chat to Karl Nova, Hip Hop artist, poet and winner of the 2020 ALCS-sponsored Ruth Rendell Award for Services…
5 years, 5 months ago
Season 1, episode 9: Focus on your finances
Season 1 Episode 9
In the new episode of Authors' Matters, we talk to novelist and Royal Literary Fund (RLF) fellow Sanjida O’Connell about how the RLF has supported au…
5 years, 7 months ago
Season 1, episode 8: Funding from the Arts Council England and a look back at 2020
Season 1 Episode 8
In the final Authors’ Matters episode of 2020, Paul Farrelly, Advocacy consultant at ALCS, talks to James Urquhart, Senior Manager for Libraries and …
5 years, 9 months ago
Season 1, episode 7: Celebrating National Poetry Day with Nikita Gill and Adam Horovitz
Season 1 Episode 7
In this episode of Authors' Matters, we celebrate National Poetry Day (1 Oct) by chatting to contemporary poets, Adam Horovitz and Nikita Gill. They …
5 years, 11 months ago
Season 1, episode 6: Anthony McGowan, Wendy Riley and awards with ALCS
Season 1 Episode 6
In our second remotely-recorded episode, Anthony McGowan, winner of the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and Wendy Riley, winner of the ALCS Tom-Gallon Tru…
6 years, 1 month ago
Season 1, episode 5: Promoting Your Work During Lockdown
Season 1 Episode 5
Coming to you from lockdown, we talk with books publicist, Georgina Moore (@PublicityBooks) and author Pragya Agarwal (@DrPragyaAgarwal) about their …
6 years, 3 months ago
Season 1, episode 4: Sara Collins and advocacy at ALCS
Season 1 Episode 4
In this episode of Authors' Matters, we chat with Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which won the Costa Book Awards First N…
6 years, 6 months ago