We are thrilled that Silver Harvest has been shortlisted for Best Debut Novel at the East Anglian Book Awards. Now in their eighteenth year, the awards are presented by the National Centre for Writing, in partnership with the Eastern Daily Press and Norwich UNESCO City of Literature, with support from University of East Read more
We’re thrilled to bring Deception Island to Great Yarmouth Minster this September as part of the brilliant Festival of the Sea. 1-8 September 2024Great Yarmouth MinsterTickets from £5-6.50 About Deception Island ‘Utterly amazing, immersive, revelatory’ Audience, Norwich Step inside a replica Antarctic hut and be transported to Deception Island, a Read more
Story Machine is delighted to announce the launch of You Are a Writer, a series of creative writing guides written specifically with and for writers who struggle to access existing opportunities. You Are a Writer will champion everyday creativity and expand access to high quality writing education.
Grief is a thing with feathers. But whether it is a source of torture and terror or a comic chicken dancing across the road depends on whose pen is doing the talking.
Online writing and movement courses to improve your health and wellbeing ‘Creatively rewarding and hugely beneficial for my own stress management. There is huge healing potential in writing.’ Dr Ruw Abeyratne, Director of Health Equality and Inclusion, University Hospitals of Leicester Book Now ‘Sally-Anne is a fantastic teacher, really energetic Read more
Story Machine is thrilled to announce the Fantastic Four: 4 brilliant new books that we are publishing in 2023. There are three works of fiction – including an American road trip odyssey written by a priest in the Church of England, a novella that blows the spy thriller genre to pieces Read more
PRESS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NORFOLK AND DERBYSHIRE | Friday, March 3, 2023 We’re delighted to announce that Working Well, a writing and movement for NHS staff wellbeing project, has received funding from Arts Council, England Story Machine, working with National Centre for Writing, Sally-Anne Lomas, and Dr Ruw Read more
JM Burgoyne talks to her editor Sam Ruddock about her debut novel Writer, the challenge of writing a book with a soul, and why she has always wanted to be a writer.
JM Burgoyne’s debut novel Writer was published earlier this year. It features a possessed typewriter that can grant wishes – at a price. As it is Halloween, we invited JM Burgoyne to share her favourite books that also feature hauntings: real ghosts or metaphorical haunting by the past. She says: Read more
Guest Blog by Shazia J Altaf Writing for the muse…?Writing for people? I think no one really gives a flying fuck to be honest what most people think.Writing for my own entertainment? From compulsion? For pleasure? For ego?Writing to expunge convoluted thoughts? From fear? What are the pins we to Read more