The Failing Writers Podcast

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Episodes: 117

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Join three success-starved wordwranglers as they stumble towards their shared ambition: to become proper writers!

Learning from guests like bestselling authors and BAFTA-winning writers. Setting themselves writing tasks and trying to improve their craft. Discussing how to get past all the things that stop us writing. And hopefully taking you on a journey with them to become successful writers!



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Episode Date
S4 Ep 20: The Failing Writers Festive Flash Fiction Competition
Nov 04, 2024
S4 Ep19: Ergodic Fiction
Oct 21, 2024
S4 Ep18: What do we think of writing retreats?
Oct 07, 2024
S4 Ep17: A Shortcut To Querying Success
Sep 22, 2024
S4 Ep16: Let's put off procrastinating, with Oliver Burkeman
Sep 09, 2024
S4 Ep15: How do you know if your writing is good enough?
Aug 26, 2024
S4 Ep14: How to become a full-time author... maybe
Jul 08, 2024
S4 Ep 13: Tune that name! All about pseudonyms
Jun 24, 2024
S4 Ep 12: Mike Gayle
Jun 10, 2024
S4 Ep11: Samuel Burr & The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
Jun 03, 2024
S4 Ep10: Does Age Matter? with Aline Dufflocq & Babette Hughes
May 27, 2024
S4 Ep9: Darren Walsh - He Knows His Punions
May 13, 2024
S4 Ep8: A tour of Scarfolk, with Richard Littler
Apr 29, 2024
S4 Ep7: Robert Popper
Apr 15, 2024
S4 Ep6: Improv Your Writing - with Ruth Bratt
Apr 08, 2024
S4 Ep5: The Interview That Went A Bit Wrong
Apr 01, 2024
S4 Ep4: Writers Unite! with Sarah from Writers' HQ & Debut Novelist Samuel Burr
Mar 18, 2024
S4 Ep3: The Full Brontë
Mar 04, 2024
S4 Ep2: Jessica Bull - Miss Austen Investigates
Feb 26, 2024
S4 Ep1: Danny Wallace
Feb 19, 2024
S3 Ep27: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt2)
Jan 01, 2024
S3 Ep26: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt1)
Dec 25, 2023
S3 Ep25: Alec Worley: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror & Comics.
Dec 11, 2023
S3 Ep24: Word Games: The League of the Lexicon
Nov 27, 2023
S3 Ep23: The Runners Up
Nov 13, 2023
S3 Ep22: Nanowrimo Special: How NOT to write a novel with Howard Mittelmark
Nov 06, 2023
S3 Ep21: Writing Ghost Stories: with Stephen Volk & Ciaran O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 2023
S3 Ep20: How to write a book using ChatGPT - Andy Stanton
Oct 23, 2023
S3 Ep19: 2023 Flash Fiction Competition Winners!
Oct 15, 2023
S3 Ep18: The Bookshop Episode
Oct 08, 2023
S3 Ep17: A Simon Armitage, Stanza Stone Special. For National Poetry Day 2023
Oct 02, 2023
S3 Ep16: Oliver Mol - Train Lord
Sep 25, 2023
S3 Ep15: Emma Healey
Sep 18, 2023
S3 Ep14: £500 flash fiction contest - entry details!
Sep 04, 2023
S3 Ep13: A chat with Patrick Ness
Aug 21, 2023
S3 Ep12: Where does the word etymology come from?
Aug 07, 2023
S3 Ep11: Storytime!
Jul 24, 2023
S3 Ep10: Crime Writing with Mark Billingham
Jul 10, 2023
S3 Ep9: Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Jun 26, 2023
S3 Ep8: A (Joanna) Frank Discussion About The World Of Publishing
Jun 19, 2023
S3 Ep7: That's it, I quit...
Jun 12, 2023
S3 Ep6: Laura Barton Interview
May 29, 2023
S3 Ep5: There was a podcast about limericks...
May 22, 2023
S3 Ep4: Ian McMillan
May 15, 2023
S3 Ep3: ChatGPT, Kasim Ali and Orcs
May 01, 2023
S3 Ep2: Stuart Turton
Apr 17, 2023
S3 Ep1: Elaborating on collaborating
Apr 10, 2023
S2 Ep31: Finally... we pitch Poker Night
Apr 03, 2023
S2 Ep30: End of season-ish
Nov 14, 2022
S2 Ep29: Lucy Porter interview
Nov 07, 2022
S2 Ep28: Halloween and Sunyi Dean
Oct 31, 2022
S2 Ep27: Talking Pitching with TV Exec Saskia Schuster
Oct 23, 2022
S2 Ep26: The Episode That Was Never Meant To Be
Oct 16, 2022
S2 Ep25: National Poetry Day 2022
Oct 09, 2022
S2 Ep24: We have a winner!
Oct 02, 2022
S2 Ep23: Quite a long longlist
Sep 25, 2022
S2 Ep22: An enthricing chat about not much
Sep 18, 2022
S2 Ep21: Talking with Evan S Smith
Sep 11, 2022
S2 Ep20: Developing Characters
Sep 04, 2022
S2 Ep19: On the other Rand (plus the competition entry details!)
Aug 28, 2022
S2 Ep18: Benjamin Stevenson - AND ANOTHER BIG COMPETITION!!
Aug 21, 2022
S2 Ep17: Janice Horton - The Backpacking Housewife
Jul 24, 2022
S2 Ep16: David Quantick interview
Jul 17, 2022
S2 Ep15: The last word on bad writing
Jul 10, 2022
S2 Ep14: Dave's Spooky War Book
Jul 03, 2022
S2 Ep13: The Freshly Award Winning Screenwriter Paul Quinn
Jun 26, 2022
S2 Ep12: Julia Roberts. No, not that one.
Jun 19, 2022
S2 Ep11: Talking with Joanna Penn
Jun 12, 2022
S2 Ep10: Cards on the table about Poker Night (and a mystery guest)
Jun 05, 2022
S2 Ep9: A critical review of Jon's Tree story
May 29, 2022
S2 Ep8: Nels Abbey, author of Think Like a White Man
May 22, 2022
S2 Ep7: Constrictive Criticism
May 15, 2022
S2 Ep6: Interview with Will Storr, author of The Science of Storytelling
May 08, 2022
S2 Ep5: Talking Sitcomedydramas
May 01, 2022
S2 Ep4: Emma Kennedy
Apr 24, 2022
S2 Ep3: Writing Competitions
Apr 17, 2022
S2 Ep2: An interview with Jeremy Dyson
Apr 10, 2022
S2 Ep1: We're back! Welcome to Season 2
Apr 03, 2022
S2: Here we go again!
Mar 23, 2022
S1 Ep37: End of season spectacular (pt2)
Jan 01, 2022
S1 Ep36: The End of Season SPECTACULAR (pt1)
Dec 27, 2021
S1 Ep35: The Failing Writer's Christmas Special Spectacular!
Dec 20, 2021
S1 Ep34: Sally Wainwright
Dec 13, 2021
S1 Ep33: Our 250 word NYC midnight flash fiction challenge
Dec 06, 2021
S1 Ep32: Lets' talk about using f*$%ing apostrophe's correctly with Simon Griffin
Nov 29, 2021
S1 Ep31: The greatest day of Jon's life - an interview with Andy Stanton
Nov 22, 2021
S1 Ep30: An interview with Tim Glister - author of "Red Corona"
Nov 15, 2021
S1 Ep29: Poetic Judgement (with the right honourable Kate Fox presiding)
Nov 08, 2021
S1 Ep28: And the winner is…
Oct 31, 2021
S1 Ep27: Children's Author Adam Bushnell
Oct 24, 2021
S1 Ep26: The Brainstorm Ideagasm
Oct 17, 2021
S1 Ep25: Interview with writer and illustrator Jason Cockcroft... and our own amazing artwork
Oct 10, 2021
S1 Ep24: Halloween flash fiction contest - plus Tim Craig's tip-top top tips
Oct 03, 2021
S1 Ep23: Rosie Wilby, a writer's room zoom AND A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Sep 26, 2021
S1 Ep22: A (not so) mystery guest special!
Sep 19, 2021
S1 Ep21: Talking to best-selling Gillian McAllister!
Sep 12, 2021
S1 Ep20: Save the f%@#!ng cat
Sep 05, 2021
S1 Ep19: Talking TV, comedy and California with Adrian Poynton
Aug 29, 2021
S1 Ep18: Whingefest '21
Aug 22, 2021
S1 Ep17: Let's do it LIVE!
Aug 15, 2021
S1 Ep16: Hidden Tools of Comedy review & Chris Paling interview
Aug 08, 2021
S1 Ep15: The Little Pod of Horrors!
Aug 01, 2021
S1 Ep14: "In one eye and out the other" with stand-up poet, Kate Fox
Jul 25, 2021
S1 Ep13: A chat with CJ Tudor
Jul 18, 2021
S1 Ep12: Rejections
Jul 11, 2021
S1 Ep11: I can't believe it's Caimh! (That rhymes by the way!?)
Jul 04, 2021
S1 Ep10: Logs, trees and beats
Jun 27, 2021
S1 Ep9: A nice chat with Beth Chalmers
Jun 20, 2021
S1 Ep8: From first pages to review rages
Jun 13, 2021
S1 Ep7: OMG it's OMJ Ryan
Jun 06, 2021
S1 Ep6: Robot Writers
May 30, 2021
S1 Ep5: Ideas about ideas!
May 23, 2021
S1 Ep4: Aural Sex
May 16, 2021
S1 Ep3: Erotica's a hard one
May 09, 2021
S1 Ep2: Teenangstasaurus
May 02, 2021
S1 Ep1: There's No Hope
May 02, 2021
S1: Episode 0 - Introducing failure
Apr 26, 2021