GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS NOVELIST AND POET, CATHERINE EDMUNDS GL: In your signature you describe yourself as Novelist/Poet. Would you like to share a little about your writing as a novelist? How many novels have you published? What genre do you use? Are there any particular periods or theme that you focus on? CE: I’m now [...]
JADE CARTIER INTERVIEWS MICHEAL JACOB (Freelance Comedy Producer and Writers’ Dock Comedy Competition Mentor) JC: Having produced comedy for a number of years, what would you say are some of the major changes you have witnessed that would have an impact on writers of comedy today? MJ: In the creative sphere, there has been an [...]
DEAN CODY CASSADY INTERVIEWS ROBIN STEVENS DCC: Your blog is a pleasure to read and your writing style on that site really captures this reader’s imagination. You’re an avid reader. So, to get things started, which writer inspires you the most and why? RS: Diana Wynne Jones was a huge influence growing up – she writes [...]
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS MAUREEN CLIFFORD GL: What first inspired you to write? Was it the work of a poet? Or was it a particular place or experience? Please share some details. MC: I don’t think I was inspired to write as such – but just wrote. I have written poetry since I was eight years [...]
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS ANDREA LOWNE GL: You write both poems and prose. To cite a few examples, your very first post in the forums, Bones (and how not to dispose of them), and Rules To Live By (and which must be obeyed!) are poems, while Kissing Mistletoe (a seasonal tale), and At A Snail’s Pace [...]
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS MIKE AGIUS GL: When did you first know that you wanted to write? Was there a light bulb-moment or a particular experience that triggered it? MA: Have I ever wanted to write? I don’t think so. I have always wanted to have written, but the idea of all the hard work to [...]
NANOWRIMO (NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH) is, at the moment of writing, almost upon us again. Every November a huge creative outpouring takes place all around the world. Words flow out. Write a novel in thirty days! This process of writing it as it comes works for many; some hate the very idea of it, saying [...]
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS CHARLIE BRITTEN GL: In your recent article, The History Makers, you enthuse about historical fiction, citing Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. You also say: ‘I have had three historical short stories published, including one reminiscence, and am plugging away at a novel set in the [...]
GOLDEN LANGUR INTERVIEWS DEAN CODY CASSADY GL: In your article, entitled What Are the Chances? you mention Neil Gaiman (1960 – ). What is it particularly about his writing that you like? Could you share a few examples? DCC: I first came across Neil Gaiman’s work in reading his collaborative novel, Good Omens (with Terry [...]
DEAN CODY CASSADY INTERVIEWS GOLDEN LANGUR. DCC: You hail from the Kingdom of Bhutan, a place of ‘exotic otherness’ for many Western writers. Could you explain something of the cultural heritage of your region of the world from which you, as a writer, draw? GL: It is a Tibetan Buddhist kingdom, where the Chief Abbot [...]
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