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Faber Academy | Writing


    • Oct 23, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
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    Kathryn Heyman – Inside Writing – The Faber Academy Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2014 30:44


    "Wanting to be a writer felt... ludicrous? Presumptuous?" Kathyrn Heyman is a novelist and creative writing tutor – she is the Fiction Director of Faber Writing Academy in Sydney. Here she talks to us about how "instinctive" dialogue takes years to learn, how you don't really "become" a novelist, and how to hatch the "big egg of desire" to write. Find out more about Faber Academy at www.faberacademy.co.uk/courses

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    Erica Wagner on a life in writing – Inside Writing – The Faber Academy Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2014 30:28


    Erica Wagner – novelist, creative writing tutor, MAN Booker Prize judge, literary editor – talks to George Miller about her life in writing. Find out more about Faber Academy at www.faberacademy.co.uk/courses

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    Writing Historical Fiction – Inside Writing – The Faber Academy Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2014 31:03


    Maria McCann and Elizabeth Speller talk about research, Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs", "Great Expectations", and plenty more besides. Find out more about Faber Academy at www.faberacademy.co.uk/courses

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    Creating Other Worlds – Inside Writing – The Faber Academy Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2013 30:24


    Maggie Gee and Antonia Honeywell discuss creating other worlds, the problems and pleasures of incorporating research, being a debut novelist, being a twelve-time novelist and much more besides. Find out more about Faber Academy at http://www.faberacademy.co.uk/courses

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    Point of View – Inside Writing – The Faber Academy Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2013 30:14


    SJ Watson and Faber Academy Fiction Director Richard Skinner talk about point of view, free indirect style, Kazuo Ishiguro, first sentences, and plenty more besides.

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