The Failing Writers Podcast

This week we have a look at the rest of our festive flash fiction competition shortlist.

Warning:  They’re upsettingly good.

Any one of them, frankly, could have won.

Which must rankle somewhat.

Thankful…

Winners winners, turkey dinners!

Thanks to the absolute legends at SCRIVENER - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/

You can get 20% off a copy by using the code 'failing' until the end of 2024.

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Don't forget you can still get 20% off SCRIVENER using the code 'failing' until the new year - so do that first before you get side-tracked with all the less-important Christmas stuff.

OK. Done that? …

Time to finish our letter to Bridget Phillipson, and once again thank the incredible teachers we spoke to, and the pupils for their fabulous creative writing.

And hey, thank yourself too! Whether you…

"Thank goodness for the Failing Writers."

A phrase you've no doubt overheard people say quite a lot over the years. At bus stops. Maybe in libraries? At the off licence?

No? Not even the off license?

Oh…

If Tom & Jon wrote poems

‘spose it will be assumed

They won’t be as good as Henry’s

Normal service will be resumed.

In this episode, we meet up with Henry Normal: poet, writer of famous sit-coms, TV prod…

Sorry? Did you just say you'd love to enter an almost free* festive flash fiction competition to win £500?

I thought you did!

Well as coincidence would have it, that is exactly what we've got going on …

What is ergodic literature? Well, it's when a story becomes more than just something you read, and you become part of it.

But pretend you haven't read that, so that you can find out from listening to …

Should you treat yourself to a writing retreat?

If you did it twice would you be re-treating yourself to a writing retreat?

If you tweeted about treating yourself to a writers retreat would you be twee…

Are you querying? or nearly querying? Maybe you’re fearing querying? Or merely getting weary and a bit teary querying? Well let’s hear from three writers who’ve been down in those querying trenches f…

... What? Did 2 weeks just fly by since the last episode? No flippin' way.

Time, I think, we had a chat about time. The fact that there's never enough of it. Especially for writing.

Why is that?

Well Ol…

Well, that’s the summer hiatus done with - and we're back with an episode which asks the question, "how do you know if your writing is good enough?"

In an attempt to answer that question, we’re going …

Do you have what it takes to quit your day job and follow your dreams to become a full time author?

Well, there's only one way to find out...and that's to listen to our interview with J C Duncan!

Hear …

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet...but would he have written that line if he wasn't called Shakespeare?

This week Jon, Tom and Dave (or possibly Rod, Jane and Freddy) look into pseu…

A change is in the air here at Failing HQ. A scent on the wind, a signal that the new dawn will herald the arrival of long overdue success.

This week, not only do Tom and Jon have a lovely chat with a…

If we were really clever, we'd have written the show notes for this week's episode in the form of a cryptic crossword clue in honour of our guest, Samuel Burr.

We spoke to him about his debut novel "T…

The average age of our guests this week is 64. Nothing too amazing about that you might say… until you find out the first of our two guests is in her mid-twenties! This week we ask, “Is there a best …

Would you like a pun? Well, that's handy because this week we've been punning for gold and ended up with a bucket load.

Director, writer and stand up comedian Darren Walsh chats to us about his career…

Have you ever been to Scarfolk? It's a strange, yet hauntingly familiar place. Join us as we take a bus trip into the mind of the man who dreamt it all up, Richard Littler.

Plus we take a look at anot…