A Neat Invitation To Tell Stories

Here’s an invitation from Neat to get involved in their handsome looking project ‘Telling Stories’. ‘Everybody is important and everybody has a story to tell. ‘Telling stories’ invites you to submit your own work about your life and where you live in any form. ‘Telling Stories’ will be launched on June 5th at Wakefield Labour [...]

Dave Pescod Q&A

Dave Pescod answers questions about his book All Embracing and Other Stories Q. What was the inspiration for ‘All Embracing’? A few years back I’d ended a relationship and was waiting in Liverpool Street Station watching people meet and greet, hugging each other affectionately. It was Christmas and there were large groups gathering and embracing [...]

Ada Wilson Q&A

Ada Wilson answers questions on his novel Red Army Faction Blues. Q. What was the genesis of Red Army Faction Blues? Football and rock music are the cultural glue for many people, myself included, but I’d never read a compelling piece of fiction about either, really, and was somewhat at a loss to explain why. [...]

BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture

Paul Laverty talks about his approach to writing screenplays and the importance of team work in film making in his BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters Lecture 2011. On whether writing in Glasgow vernacular comes easiest: Yeah, by a mile. I suppose I’m very lucky too. Ken’s always really been supportive in helping with that. We’ve made [...]

Stories From A World of Music

Route have teamed up with Musicport to produce a book of stories collected over the festival weekend. At any festival gathering, people get together to share stories and music related experiences. This year, a team of writers will be on hand to capture and celebrate these stories that demonstrate the rich link between music and [...]

Introducing our next great novelist… Sophie Coulombeau

27-year-old wins the inaugural Route Young Author Award Route are delighted to announce that Sophie Coulombeau is the winner of the 2011 Route Author Competition. Her novel provisionally titled Rites beat off strong competition from a group of exceptionally talented authors under the age of 30 to win a publishing contract. The novel will be [...]