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…
JM Burgoyne discusses her debut novel Writer, the challenge of writing a book with a soul, and what motivates her to write.
We are thrilled to announce that Paperchains Live will play at Hay Festival in Wales on Monday 30th May. Following a successful tour that takes in 29 performances at 15 prisons and two community venues, Paperchains Live culminates with a performance at the world-renowned Hay Festival. ‘This show will change Read more…