'If we are to really create an environment and platforms for diverse voices, we need to allow them to have and express the full spectrum of their personhood.'

If we are true to our selves and our craft, if we are merciless and unflinching in our approach to new thoughts and ideas, if we stare down all the things that scare us into silence, it is the wider world that will come to fear the fire in words of i...

"I am a disgusting, despicable human being, and look, I’m not going to lie and deny this in this this sanctified space of the Emerging Writers Festival website."

"Here's the funny thing about Imposter Syndrome – it's generally the high achievers and the brightest bulbs that get it. Congratulations! You feel like shit because you rock. It's also typically prevalent in women. Congratulations! Fuck the patriar...

There'll be performances and readings from the of three sharpest lit-mags around, all centring on cult writing, be it about music, film or other left-of-centre obsessions.

We can promise some very exciting live music and spoken word performances, from very familiar faces that will make your eyes go fluttery and your underthings catch aflame. Yes there will be more than one room. Yes there will be the chance for audienc...

The literary festival is a form by which we communicate to an audience, and gather together like-minded people. What we do with that form is entirely up to us. It is vital that programmers consider deeply the context in which we live, play, read and...

"My interpretation of What Right Do I Have changes depending on whether we’re talking about fiction or non-fiction. If we all wrote fiction based on things we had experienced ourselves, we wouldn’t have books like, and I’m casting a wide net of...