Welcome to this Story Machine Productions performance of Life & Times of Michael K. We present this today in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation to celebrate the prize’s 50th anniversary. J.M. Coetzee is one of only three writers to have won the Man Booker Prize on two occasions, and Read more…
STORY MACHINE PRODUCTIONS: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, ERDF, BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDATION, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR WRITING, AND STARTEAST BACKED VENTURE LAUNCHED TODAY PRESS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NORWICH | WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2018 Brings an alternative approach for the publishing industry to take books to audiences. New Show, Life & Times Read more…
We’re delighted to announce that our new show, Michael K, will premiere at the world’s biggest book festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, on Wednesday May 15th. The show, which brings J.M. Coietzee’s 1983 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life & Times of Michael K to life, is commissioned by Man Booker Prize as Read more…
Lamorna Elmer at Granta commissioned the first Story Machine Productions event, bringing to life Leslie Jamison’s brilliant addiction memoir The Recovering. Here she reflects on the experience of working with Story Machine Productions. ‘Story Machine Productions are doing something that almost no one else is – creating events without the Read more…
Last night Preti Taneja won the Desmond Elliott Prize for her debut novel, We That Are Young (Galley Beggar Press, 2017). She is a brilliant author, and this prize is the first of many in what will no doubt be a long and illustrious career. We are particularly delighted to have Read more…
Step 1 We’ve all heard versions of those intoxicating stories of addiction and the creative process, of whiskey and ink. Of artists using alcohol like a car uses petrol; fuelling the engine and injecting risk into their writing. Romantic, aren’t they? Alluring. Step 2 Whiskey & Ink is a response Read more…