"As a teenager I was shy trying not to be shy, but in this bizarrely proactive way."

In the lead up to EWF 2017, Honor chats with us about her top tips for cracking into podcasting, giving us a glimpse into what she’ll be sharing at her workshop Writers’ Night School: Podcasting.

The 2017 Emerging Writers’ Festival is full of opportunities to perform your work to a live audience. We round up a list of the open mic events at EWF 2017.

"I think about physicality, how the reader’s body feels, how their surrounds smell and look, what happened just before this scene and the residue left within them."

We chat with Sian about her career as deputy editor of Overland Magazine and what it’s like working on the other side of the page.

I spent some time reading sad advice columns from sad writers and collated the advice for all of us floating around in this over-emotional dingy.

"Whenever people walk by my desk, I’m a little worried they’ll see I’m looking at BDSM photos or books like 'In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal'."

We chat with Lili about her approach to writing for young adults in the lead up to Masterclass: YA.