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On Relationships: Tangled Webs and Things Unsaid

What is a relationship, at its core? In what physical and intangible ways are we connected to others, to places, to ideas? And what can…
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Amy
‘Outsiders: A Short Story Anthology’

‘Outsiders: A Short Story Anthology’

Edited by Alice Slater
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Catherine O’Neill
“It was a miracle that peach trees grew”: An Interview with Melissa Fu

“It was a miracle that peach trees grew”: An Interview with Melissa Fu

By Sarah Lorraine
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Sarah Lorraine
“I had the historical facts and I breathed life into them”: Word Factory speaks with Sophie Haydock

“I had the historical facts and I breathed life into them”: Word Factory speaks with Sophie Haydock

Sophie Haydock, associate director of Word Factory, is publishing her debut novel with Penguin Random House on March 16th. Her much…
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Lily Kuenzler
Write What You Fear: Interview with White Review and PEN Emerging Writers’ prize winner, RZ Baschir

Write What You Fear: Interview with White Review and PEN Emerging Writers’ prize winner, RZ Baschir

RZ tumbled onto Zoom with a diet Pepsi in hand and a glint in her eye. “I’m hungover,” she said, “so you have to be sympathetic if I talk…
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Lily Kuenzler

I Just Move By Instinct: Colin Barrett on ‘Whoever is There, Come on Through’

Colin Barrett’s debut collection Young Skins won The Rooney Prize, The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize, The Guardian First…
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Tom Conaghan
Scratch Books

Scratch Books

With what I’ve learnt from my work at The Word Factory, I have recently started Scratch Books — a small press dedicated to the craft of…
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Tom Conaghan
“Go Weird And See What Happens:” The Word Factory Meets Leon Craig

“Go Weird And See What Happens:” The Word Factory Meets Leon Craig

Interview by Lily Kuenzler
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Lily Kuenzler

Amy Stewart’s Writing Apprenticeship Diary #2: Knitting things together

In my last post for The Word Factory, I wrote about the journey that had led me to the Apprentice Award, and to my mentorship with…
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Amy
‘How to Gut a Fish’

‘How to Gut a Fish’

Author: Sheila Armstrong
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Catherine O’Neill
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