Blog Archive

Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…

‘The Return’ by Janet Few – first prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition

‘The Return’ by Janet Few – first prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 13th December 2020

    Janet Few is an historian, writer and lecturer who inhabits the past; she has an international reputation as a genealogist. When not immersing herself in history and heritage, she enjoys exploring the countryside’s flora and fauna. As...

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‘The Alphabet of Life’ by Rebecca Stonehill – second prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition

‘The Alphabet of Life’ by Rebecca Stonehill – second prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 13th December 2020

  Rebecca Stonehill lives in Norwich with her husband and three children where she teaches creative writing for children. She is the author of three historical fiction novels and is currently working on her fourth. She loves reading, having...

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‘The Trade’ by Debbie Parrott – third prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition

‘The Trade’ by Debbie Parrott – third prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 13th December 2020

Debbie Parrott has travelled since childhood from camping across France to Antarctica and many places in between.  Only in the last few years has Debbie taken to writing articles based on her Travel Diaries. She has been published in...

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Announcing the winners of the inaugural TripFiction ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition

Announcing the winners of the inaugural TripFiction ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 13th December 2020

This autumn, as the world finally took its first tentative steps towards a post pandemic world, we invited adventurous writers to create new stories. Ideas that transported people to a place where imaginations could escape from the claustrophobia of locked...

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Talking Location With…Fiona Veitch Smith, Newcastle upon Tyne

Talking Location With…Fiona Veitch Smith, Newcastle upon Tyne 12th December 2020

#TalkingLocationWith... Fiona Veitch Smith, author of The Art Fiasco set in Newcastle upon Tyne. My 1920s murder mysteries about a reporter sleuth called Poppy Denby are set in both time and place. The five books in the series so...

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