The Failing Writers Podcast
Join these success-starved wordwranglers as they stumble towards their shared ambition: to become proper writers!
Learning from guests like bestselling authors and BAFTA-winning writers. Setting themselves writing tasks and trying to improve their craft. Discussing how to get past all the things that stop us writing. And hopefully taking you on a journey with them to become successful writers!
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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 60 minutes
- Episodes
- 143
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
S4 Ep6: Improv Your Writing - with Ruth Bratt
The great Carl Reiner once said “Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience”.
So we figured if we could brush up on our improv skills it's bound to make us better writers... right?
This wee…
So we figured if we could brush up on our improv skills it's bound to make us better writers... right?
This wee…
00:47:24 |
Mon 08 Apr 2024
S4 Ep5: The Interview That Went A Bit Wrong
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00:56:15 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
S4 Ep4: Writers Unite! with Sarah from Writers' HQ & Debut Novelist Samuel Burr
Writing can be a solitary business. All those hours spent with nothing but a blank page and a bottomless coffee cup.
On reflection we reckon it's probably good to interact with other human beings occa…
On reflection we reckon it's probably good to interact with other human beings occa…
01:19:45 |
Mon 18 Mar 2024
S4 Ep3: The Full Brontë
Join Tom & Jon on another rambly exploration.
This time we're off back to the 1840s to take a good, hard look at the Brontë sisters. Who were Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë? What were they like? How…
This time we're off back to the 1840s to take a good, hard look at the Brontë sisters. Who were Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë? What were they like? How…
01:23:46 |
Mon 04 Mar 2024
S4 Ep2: Jessica Bull - Miss Austen Investigates
As an aspiring young writer it's easy to be put off by even the most well intentioned constructive criticism...what's not so easy is to revisit that critique many years later and be inspired to write…
00:57:06 |
Mon 26 Feb 2024
S4 Ep1: Danny Wallace
Aaaaaand we're back!
The Failing Writers return for what some are calling the fourth season of this spectacular podcast. We look forward to a whole new smorgasbord of writing tips, challenges, goals a…
The Failing Writers return for what some are calling the fourth season of this spectacular podcast. We look forward to a whole new smorgasbord of writing tips, challenges, goals a…
01:19:04 |
Mon 19 Feb 2024
S3 Ep27: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt2)
Happy New Year Folks! We continue our seasonal ghost stories with a handful of listener-written tales. So gather around the hearth with us again as we bring you a selection of eerie yarns, to make y…
00:57:29 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
S3 Ep26: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt1)
Please accept this as a most cordial invitation to accompany Jon, Tom and as yet unnamed guests for an evening of traditional ghost story telling. We have chosen the most atmospheric venue we could a…
01:15:03 |
Mon 25 Dec 2023
S3 Ep25: Alec Worley: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror & Comics.
Alec Worley is an award-lacking (his own words!) author from South London. He writes comics, fiction and audio drama about swords, fangs and lasers. He’s best known for his work on 2000 AD (home of J…
01:30:40 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
S3 Ep24: Word Games: The League of the Lexicon
Out of the blue, someone sent us a game. A game all about words and etymology and language - the very stuff we LOVE. So, we decided that we'd get together and play the game to see if it's any good, a…
01:08:06 |
Mon 27 Nov 2023
S3 Ep23: The Runners Up
We couldn't let the amazing stories that made it to the final short-list go un-read and un-heard... so here they are. Plus there's a nice little chat with the overall winner of our £500 prize, Manu S…
00:43:58 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
S3 Ep22: Nanowrimo Special: How NOT to write a novel with Howard Mittelmark
NaNoWrimOhNo!
It's that time of year again when words-per-day becomes the currency. So we thought we'd bring you even more words... Words of novel-writing wisdom! No, no... not from us... obviously…
It's that time of year again when words-per-day becomes the currency. So we thought we'd bring you even more words... Words of novel-writing wisdom! No, no... not from us... obviously…
00:54:29 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
S3 Ep21: Writing Ghost Stories: with Stephen Volk & Ciaran O'Keeffe
With the help of two expert spookologists: Stephen Volk - horror writer & mastermind behind the BBCs infamous 'GHOSTWATCH', and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe - famed ghostbuster & parapsychologist, we're attemp…
01:33:01 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
S3 Ep20: How to write a book using ChatGPT - Andy Stanton
Well... there's a lot of talk about whether it's right or wrong to use AI to write your book for you. But that's not what this episode is about really.
I mean, we touch on that and discuss it. You ca…
I mean, we touch on that and discuss it. You ca…
01:29:07 |
Mon 23 Oct 2023
S3 Ep19: 2023 Flash Fiction Competition Winners!
AND THE WINNER IS......... announced in the podcast. Plus the runners up and some highly commended entries, and as many of the superb entries that we can mention.
It's been a brilliant comp this year…
It's been a brilliant comp this year…
00:43:29 |
Sun 15 Oct 2023
S3 Ep18: The Bookshop Episode
October 14th is BOOKSHOP DAY! So here's a little episode... well... it started out as a little episode... to celebrate the humble bookshop. Jon visits his local store to find out more about the art …
01:07:51 |
Sun 08 Oct 2023
S3 Ep17: A Simon Armitage, Stanza Stone Special. For National Poetry Day 2023
This week we're out and about tracking down poetry for National Poetry Day 2023. We take to the Yorkshire hills in search of the Stanza Stones. Join us on our adventure and help us celebrate some of …
01:40:57 |
Mon 02 Oct 2023
S3 Ep16: Oliver Mol - Train Lord
Imagine being a writer and not actually writing!
Oh wait. That's us.
Imagine being a writer and NOT BEING ABLE TO WRITE!
That was Oli. He had a 10 month long migraine that almost literally killed him.
…
Oh wait. That's us.
Imagine being a writer and NOT BEING ABLE TO WRITE!
That was Oli. He had a 10 month long migraine that almost literally killed him.
…
01:12:36 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
S3 Ep15: Emma Healey
Hello again.
This time out we're having a nice sit down with author Emma Healey. Her debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, (which has been described as "bloody brilliant, honestly, you should read it To…
This time out we're having a nice sit down with author Emma Healey. Her debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, (which has been described as "bloody brilliant, honestly, you should read it To…
01:19:03 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
S3 Ep14: £500 flash fiction contest - entry details!
DO YOU LIKE WRITING?
DO YOU LIKE FREE MONEY?
WHAT ABOUT HILARIOUS AND GOBSMACKING PODCASTING?
Yeah? Well then blummin' well enter the Failing Writers Podcast £500, 500 word Flash Fiction Competition in …
DO YOU LIKE FREE MONEY?
WHAT ABOUT HILARIOUS AND GOBSMACKING PODCASTING?
Yeah? Well then blummin' well enter the Failing Writers Podcast £500, 500 word Flash Fiction Competition in …
01:13:42 |
Mon 04 Sep 2023
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