When one door closes another one opens? I’m not so sure… sometimes, you have to kick the door down. I have often been told I live with my head in the clouds, I am happiest […]

The hardest part of being an editor for Northern Gravy, without a shadow of a doubt, has been all the rejections. I’m no stranger to rejection myself, having written six unpublished novels. I did manage […]

How do! This is my last article as poetry editor for Northern Gravy. As much as I have loved the role and working with the great Jinny Syer and Nick Jones, it’s time to move […]

Occasionally, our poetry editor, Ralph Dartford takes a personal look at a specific poem he loves and investigates his own relationship with the poem and the author’s motivations to write it. Does the poem reflect […]

Last time I wrote one of these, I spoke on the incomparable Mollusc, by Dan Draper. In that article, I admittedly openly that I never expected it to be a story that people cited as […]

I think I get a lot of submissions from writers who don’t read many modern children’s books… I could never be entirely sure, of course, but it’s my gut feeling. I’m not unkind to these […]

I took my teenaged son to an intimate gig with bluegrass singer, Lewis Pugh, last night. It’s our new favourite pastime, to explore the musical scene of our hometown, this steel-strung city. Because, after fourteen […]

When my children’s debut, Secrets of the Snakestone, was published in March this year, I made the big mistake that all experienced writers counsel against: looking at the reviews on Goodreads…

Reader, if you have a printer then print this article out, step away from the screen and read it in one sitting. I say this because I’ve been thinking about reading, and reading about thinking. […]

Author of the DS Adam Tyler series Fire watching, Nighthawking and Cold Reckoning. Published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and by G.P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin Random House) in the US. I’m represented by Sarah Hornsley of Peters, Fraser + Dunlop.

Brian Moses has been a professional children’s poet since 1988.. To date he has over 220 books published and over 1 million copies sold. His new book On Poetry Street will be published in May.

Steve Ely’s most recent publications are Lectio Violant, The European Eel and Lives of British Shrews. A book-length poem, Eely, is imminently forthcoming from Longbarrow Press. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield where he is also Director of the Ted Hughes Network

Tommy Sissons is a poet, writer and educator based in London. He is the literary editor of GRASS Magazine, a publication specialising in the promotion of working-class creatives.

Nobody else will ever be able to write a book like my new novel Venomous Lumpsucker. I mean that in the very literal sense that one of the essential tools I used to write it no longer exists.

Toria was born in Knottingley in 1982. Her first book, ‘The Universe and Me’ was published in 2018 by Wrecking Ball press, and her upcoming collection ‘Another Time in Space’ is due to be released in December 2022.

I was struggling to think of some jokes for a particular scene in my latest book so I did what I usually do when I’m stuck. I asked twitter. The answers varied from “Lego tiger […]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn […]

Today marks just past day number fifty-five of getting up at the crack of something (not quite dawn) in the morning to write from 5:55-6:55 AM every day. Five in the morning. Who would have thought it? Not me.

Most people hate their jobs. Not me. I love it. I love it because it’s shit. I go in. I ride a forklift truck around. I go home. No stress. Mostly nights. Suits me. I’m not much a day person anyway.

For this article about writing, I would like to talk (type?) about not writing. A massive part of my writing life, which I now do full time as my job, is not actually writing. I […]

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the process of ‘getting over’ creative projects when they come to an end.  I’ve been preoccupied by endings because my latest collection, Little Piece of Harm, has just […]