Novelists

Get to know… Carys Shannon

Writing, nature, and creativity have always been the through lines of my life, but it wasn’t easy to claim my voice as a writer. I didn’t...

I was never the most expressive person in the world; to say the least. It was my way as a child, to observe the world around me...

Why didn't I try to write before? Haven't I spent a whole life loving books and stories and finding characters, plots and lines of prose...

I was a reader, not a writer - all kinds of genres, all kinds of authors. But there were words in me. I could feel...

The reason I write is another thing that changed this year. Deep in the ‘core belief’ file I threw out my idea of changing people...

I was between jobs, and my wife gave me a present of a 6-week course at the Writing Room with Giovanna Iozzi on Life Writing....

I used to think I ran the planet and when I stopped, wondered how the world might get on without me (to be fair, not...

Hello. A little about me, you say? Well, I’ve been an actor and a broadcast journalist (BBC and LBC newsreader, DJ at Melody FM). I...

One of the best metaphors I know for telling stories and making sense of the world comes from looking at stars in the night sky....

Currently pre-occupying me though is the run of my play, Blood Gold and Oil, which opens this Tuesday (25 April) at Gatehouse Theatre Highgate. I...