In association with Nick Hern Books. 

This month we talk to nine playwrights at various stages of their career and at different points of the writing process. We discuss all aspects of playwriting, from the initial sparks of thought to the blank page and, finally, to stage. We ask what it means to be a writer, and discuss the state of new writing in the UK.

Featuring interviews with: Tom Basden, David Edgar, Tim Foley, Catriona Kerridge, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Dan Rebellato, Stef Smith, Jack Thorne and Steve Waters.

Uncaused Effects - Playwrights On Playwriting

In part two of my interview with novelist, Sophie Coulombeau, she discusses her upcoming second novel, Point No Point, a multi-stranded political novel set in 1790s London. The first part (https://soundcloud.com/littlewritten/sophie-coulombeau-little-written-part-1) covered her award-winning first novel, Rites.

Over the two parts, our topics of discussion range across the challenge of balancing multiple narrators, portrayals of Catholicism in fiction, inept internet trolls, the possibility that her new novel is an elaborate metaphor about Jeremy Corbyn (It isn't. She was joking.) and much more.

We recorded this interview back in January, and Sophie mentions that she was intending to get the manuscript of her new novel to her agent in March, so hopefully the book is now a step or two closer to publication.

Rites is a really intriguing (and fairly short) novel, which I read straight through from cover to cover, pausing only for as long as it took a passport control officer to verify that I was allowed into the UK. I would thoroughly recommend that everyone gives it a go.

Sophie will also be a guest on the May edition of The Global Lab (@the-global-lab), so keep an eye out for that.

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RITES
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Writer Interview - Sophie Coulombeau - Novelist - Part II, Point No Point

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Writer Interview - Sophie Coulombeau - Novelist - Part II, Point No Point

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