Cambridge Writing Centre Podcast

Episode 6: Learning to Live with Ghosts

Part 2 of Sarah Gibson Yates' interview with screen-writers Felicity Evans and Toby Venables, discussing catharsis, Final Girls, refugees and the recent evolution of the horror genre in relation to the 2020 Netflix film His House.

Episode 5: A House No One Wants to Live In

Part 1 of Sarah Gibson Yates' interview with screenwriters Felicity Evans and Toby Venables, covering horror, trauma and narrative structure in relation to the 2020 Netflix film His House.

Episode 4: The Best Novels Are Detective Novels

In this episode we talk pit lit, portal lit, severed limbs and the 'academic's path' through the US with novelist Bryan Hurt, able supported by UK poet Penny Boxall. Featuring a reading of Bryan's short story, 'Making Frankenstein'.

Episode 3: Blindsided by Butt Jokes

An interview with British poet Penny Boxall, with supporting contributions from US author Bryan Hurt, in which we discuss attention spans, collaborating with visual and music artists, Jacob Polley and Patricia Lockwood. Featuring a reading of Penny's poem 'The Present' from In Praise of Hands. 

Episode 2: The Fight Within Language

In the second podcast from ARU's Cambridge Writing Centre, Jon Stone interviews T. S. Eliot shortlisted, hyper-prolific poet and hyena-woman Fran Lock about contested spaces in literary culture and language itself, our animal selves and what to do with 'a system that wants to destroy you'.

Episode 1: Our Clan's Clever Craftwork

The first podcast from ARU's Cambridge Writing Centre features poetry from Rebecca Watts, Patrick Davidson Roberts, Sam Quill, Golnoosh Noor and Anne Berkeley, as well as a short story by Lisa Sargeant and writing advice for students from novelist Megan Bradbury.