Category Archives: featured
Hand in hand – your best writing prompts are right in front of you!
Are you like me and take your hands for granted? Last night, I forgot a friend’s telephone number and realised that I was letting my fingers hover over the phone as if my fingers had their own memory. Then I made a list of other things my hands could do that I never have to [...]
Writing Seeds Round-up
Every weekday on twitter (@sarahsalway), I put up what I’ve been calling ‘writing seeds’ – little lines or random snippets that I use myself to exercise my writing muscles before I start my ‘proper writing’. Here are some from the last week… * His career progressed mostly without him * How to recognise a real [...]
Salway’s 100 Question Character Interview…
One of my favourite creative writing exercises is to have students create a character on the paper through a series of questions, and then get them – one by one – to pretend to be their character and submit to being interviewed by the rest of the group. It’s amazing what startling storylines can come [...]
Have you a poem lurking….?
There’s still time to enter the Kent & Sussex Open Poetry Competition, with over £1500 of prizes. The deadline may be extended a week, and we’d be very grateful for your support now. This is a difficult time for all arts organisations, and to be honest, competitions such as these are what are keeping many [...]
A sneak preview of my new cover….
Like it? The poetry collection will be out properly at the beginning of March – details of the party to come! But I know that some lovely people have pre-ordered it here and although I don’t know who you are unless you’ve contacted me direct for your ‘in-limbo’ postcard, thank you thank you thank you…! [...]
Five Sentences with … Peggy Riley
With all this talk about starting a novel, I’m very pleased to bring Peggy Riley to the blog to finish my five sentences. Peggy Riley is a writer and playwright living in Kent, and one of the reasons I was so keen to feature her is that, not only is she a fab writer you [...]
Announcing my Canterbury Laureate project
… a creative pilgrimage around Kent’s gardens. It’s been both a lovely and hard couple of months since the announcement that I was to be the next Canterbury Laureate. Lovely because of the people I’ve met, the literature I’ve read and have been sent, and the projects I’ve seen come into fruition, or which are [...]
Feeling Appreciated….
A lovely lovely review of Tell Me Everything and my other books here from the mighty Charles Lambert. It makes me so happy to have Tell Me Everything read – for all sorts of reasons I’m not sure, to be honest, how many people even realised it was out first time around. In fact, if [...]
Five Sentences with … Anthony McGowan
Today, it’s my GREAT pleasure to have Anthony McGowan on here to finish my sentences. Anthony’s latest book The Donut Diaries, has an unlikely hero… Dermot Milligan’s got problems. He’s overweight and hooked on donuts. He has a pushy, over-achieving mother, and a father who spends all his time hiding in the loo. His sisters, [...]
YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF-HELP BOOK….
OH WAIT A MINUTE… You DO need this one!! Lovely things have been happening since I first announced my first poetry collection YOU DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SELF-HELP BOOK a little while ago. First of all Will Hermes, a senior critic at Rolling Stone Magazine and author of Love Goes To Buildings on Fire called [...]
