Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she is too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she has conversations with ...
Tessa Hadley is an award winning author of eight novels, many short story collections and one of my personal favourite writers. In this conversation Tessa talks with me about the pleasures and irresponsibility of the short story, her first novella The Party, writing as a performance and the benefits of publishing for the first time in mid life. This series of the podcast is sponsored by award winning audio book app xigxagListeners of Not Too Busy To Write can receive their second book FREE To redeem, download the xigxag app from the App Store or Google Play. Go to My xigxag/Settings, then click on Account. Under Vouchers, click on the ‘Enter code’ button and add your voucher code NTBTW to your account. After your first purchase, your second title will be free!You can purchase The Party on xigxag here.LinksThe Party - Tessa HadleyFree Love - Tessa HadleyBad Dreams - Tessa HadleyThe Best Intentions - Ingmar BergmanGoing Home - Tom LamontLong Island - Colm ToibinParades End - Ford Maddox FordWriting Literary Fiction with Tessa Hadley - Curtis Brown Creative Not Too Busy To Write on Substack
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Daisy Buchanan on reading yourself happy
Daisy Buchanan is a bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster. Today we're talking about her latest book Read Yourself Happy and the unique power of books to make us feel better, as well as how reading makes us better writers.Read Yourself Happy is out nowThis series of the podcast is sponsored by award winning audio book app xigxagListeners of Not Too Busy To Write can receive their second book FREE To redeem, download the xigxag app from the App Store or Google Play. Go to My xigxag/Settings, then click on Account. Under Vouchers, click on the ‘Enter code’ button and add your voucher code NTBTW to your account. After your first purchase, your second title will be free!You can purchase Read Yourself Happy on xigxag hereLinksYou're Booked with Daisy BuchananCreative Confidence Clinic with Daisy BuchananBrigit Jones Diary - Helen FieldingExit Interview - Kristi CoulterCan You Ever Forgive Her? - Anthony TrollopeSo Thrilled For You - Holly BourneMad Woman - Bryony GordonThis Is Not A Pity Memoir - Abi MorganThe Come Up - Jonathan AbramsThe Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva RiceHappy All The Time - Laurie ColwinMiddlemarch - George ElliotAlison - Lizzy StewartA Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara The Great Believers - Rebecca MakkaiDon't Look At Me Like That - Diana AthillRachel's Holiday - Marian KeyesI Capture the Castle - Dodi...
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What's to come in series 10
A little taster of what's to come in series 10 featuring Tessa Hadley, Daisy Buchanan and Grace Timothy.The new series begins 5th FebruaryYou can subscribe to Not Too Busy To Write on Substackpennywincer.substack.compennywincerwrites.comPenny on Instagram @pennywincer4bf661332a54c42dda99f791c1378d9407200820
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Women's Prize Discoveries 2025 with Dreda Say Michell, Chloe Timms and Emma Van Straaten
Join me for a special episode digging deep into the Women's Prize Discoveries 2025, a prize and program for unpublished women fiction writers in the UK and Ireland, with two of this years judges Dreda Say Mitchell, an award winning and bestselling crime and mystery author and Chloe Timms, journalist, author and podcast host. We are joined by the winner of the inaugural Discoveries Prize 2021, Emma van Straaten, whose debut novel This Immaculate Body will be published in February. This episode is packed full of advice and will get you itching to pull out your Work in Progress and enter the prize.LinksWomen's Prize Discoveries 2025Girl, Missing - Dreda Say MitchellThe Seawomen - Chloe TimmsThis Immaculate Body - Emma van StraatenDreda Say Mitchell - dredamitchell.comChloe Timms - chloetimms.co.ukConfessions of A Debut Novelist with Chloe TimmsEmma van Straaten on Instagram @evswritesBook Proposal Group Program - pennywincerwrites.com/bookproposalgroupNot Too Busy To Write on Substack
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S9 Ep5. Lucy Gough - from interior stylist to author
Lucy Gough has come to writing via her career as a stylist and art director. From working in house at magazines, to freelance art direction with John Lewis and Marks and Spencer, Lucy took a leap of faith in lockdown, when all her work disappeared, and wrote a course on Interiors Styling. That creative risk changed everything fo her. In this episode we talk about what the journey looked like and the practical and creative challenges of writing an illustrated book.LinksThe Home Style Handbook - Lucy GoughLucy Gough's Online Interior Styling Courses - course.lucygoughstylist.comLucy Gough on Instagram @style_by_lucyHome Matters - Penny WincerPenny's Book Proposal Group Program - pennywincerwrites.comNot Too Busy To Write on Substack - pennywincer.substack.com
Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she is too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she has conversations with other writers about writing, publishing and creativity whilst juggling all the demands on them such as motherhood, caring and other paid work.
Penny Wincer is the author of two narrative non-fiction books, Tender and Home Matters and a non-fiction writing coach. She's an Australian and long-term resident of London, a mother of two teenagers, an unpaid carer and always attempting to get just a little more writing done.
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