Sitemap - 2015 - Ponderings of a Part-Time Writer

Social media and the new availability

The Honours by Tim Clare

Not writing a novel in November

The Bees by Laline Paull

Audio delights from the Ilkley Literature Festival

Stuart Maconie The People's Songs

Ilkley Literature Festival: parting notes

Ilkley Literature Festival review: Liza Klaussmann and Jami Attenberg

Ilkley Literature Festival review: Postcapitalism

Ilkley Literature Festival Review: What Lies Beneath

A couple of short, colourful stories

Ilkley Literature Festival review: Stuart Maconie

Ilkley Literature Festival review: Writing and Reading in the Digital Age

Ilkley Literature Festival review: New Writing North roadshow

Sally Heathcote Suffragette

Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg

Review round-up

An Explosion of Northern Literature Festivals

Petrified by proper poetry

Confluence by Paul McAuley

Kate Atkinson and style envy

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Stormy Sunday

Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

A quick news and reviews round-up

Humblebrags and other bits of popular culture I seem to have missed

Yet more book reviews

The Prisoner of Paradise by Romesh Gunesekera

Heat, laziness, mildly exciting activity

National Flash Fiction Day and starting afresh

Beside the Seaside: Stories set around the Yorkshire Coast (edited by Scott Harrison)

Today York, tomorrow... Ilkley

Scandinavian crime: Camilla Läckberg

Scandinavian crime: Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum

Northern Rail Odyssey part 3: East and North Yorkshire

Northern Rail Odyssey part 2: the North East

Northern Rail Odyssey part 1: The West Cumbrian Coast

Northern English Journey

A link to the storytelling evening

A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Faint memory fragments through a different lens

A Little Dust on the Eyes by Minoli Salgado

A Blink of the Screen, short fiction by Terry Pratchett

Casting the actors in your head

Becoming a Geordie by long proximity

The importance of being musical

The Overlook by Michael Connelly

Popular authors, some vague musings

New Grub Street by George Gissing

Welcome to the future