One month. Four words to inspire you. And the limitless power of your imagination.
Throughout October 2024, I transformed The Exchange into a hub for new writing which nurtured and celebrated the creativity of people across the region.
As part of that, I invited eight other professional authors — along with members of the public from across Birmingham and the Black Country — to create pieces for an anthology of brand-new work. I challenged myself to write a 90,000-word novel over the course of just one calendar month. (Visit my blog to see how that went…)
All contributors responded to a broad inspirational theme, a four-word quote from Ursula K. Le Guin’s iconic novel The Dispossessed. The works they produced are as unique and individual as the writers themselves — and now, you can read them all in the True Voyage Is Return anthology.
The ten-episode podcast lets you hear from some of the amazing people who took part, digging deeper into each writer’s journey, both during this project and across their career, and exploring their radically different experiences of creating new work under some truly unusual circumstances.
