Gothic Horror at its finest
Today I want to share with you a podcast put out by the National Centre for Writing, which is a Literature House in Norwich, the UK’s first UNESCO city of Literature and commonly known as the City of Stories.
I am a volunteer at the National Centre for Writing and really believe in its mission and the opportunities it affords people.
They also run the Writing Life Podcast, in the episode I’m sharing with you today author Heather Parry discusses writing the grotesque body and reimagining gothic tropes.
Below is a link to the full podcast catalogue.
From draft to debut: Anna Goldreich on The Leveret – The Writing Life
In this episode of The Writing Life Podcast, Norwich-based writer Anna Goldreich reflects on the personal and creative journey behind her debut novel, The Leveret – a bruisingly tender and lyrically haunting hymn to queer love and the power to rebuild from the wreckage of a relationship.
Anna Goldreich is a writer based in Norwich. She holds a Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA from the University of East Anglia and her writing has been shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize 2022 and was awarded the Mslexia Short Story Runner-up Prize 2025. She is the co-founder of Queer Birders Norfolk.
She sat down with NCW’s Lucy May, a friend and former classmate on UEA’s Creative Writing MA, for an open conversation about the excitement, uncertainty, and vulnerability that come with publishing a debut. Together, they discuss writing contrasting characters, expanding a short story into a full-length novel, and the advice she offers emerging writers.
- From draft to debut: Anna Goldreich on The Leveret
- Madness and Magic: Hannah Murray on her memoir The Make Believe
- Experimenting with narrative form: Ashley Hickson-Lovence on About to Fall Apart
- Writing the self in memoir: Camilla Balshaw on Named
- Storytelling in graphic novels: Anna Trench on Florrie
Katie Marie Robinson-Sherlock 
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