All Episodes

Keith Ridgway writing personal maps of cities and love stories of a sort

Deb Olin Unferth on awe and writing the bottom of the ocean and outer space

Louisa Bello’s sheer determination to get published and being inspired by a friend

Deepa Anappara describes the importance of Moby Dick to her novel…and a Rippling Points Preview

Deepa Anappara on great storytelling and complex explorations of grief

Ashton Politanoff tells us how to write tense scenes and write a novel set in the world of tennis

Alice Hattrick on creatively writing about history and embroidery and mother daughter relationships

Ask the Host - Liam on origins of the podcast, literary salons, and a summer books preview

Nicholas Royle on writing about his love for second hand books and bookshops (archive re-release)

Stu Hennigan on writing in vernacular and sympathetic truthful portrayals of the north

Amber Medland on overcoming writers block and writing with George Saunders

Polly Barton on writing about knotty linguistic concepts and loving language (Archive Re-Release)

Camille Bordas on finding detail in small objects and writing in different languages

Camille Bordas on making difficult topics funny and crafting sharp dialogue

Bonus! Lucy Caldwell on annotated Hamlet and Easter Eggs

Lucy Caldwell on writing transcendent psychic moments and finding meaning in life

Bonus! Why a letter knife told Leon Craig everything she needed to know about her characters’ desires

Leon Craig on misunderstanding ghosts and getting what we want

Ana Schnabl on using childhood locations and memories in stories about unpleasant people

Eva Meijer live in Leeds and panoramic crisis fiction based on personal experience

Bonus - Madeleine Dunnigan and Farah Ali on their favourite books and writing beyond the surface

Christmas and NY special - exciting talents, Madeleine and Farah, discussing healing and books that inspired their craft

Editor Rali Chorbadzyiyska talking about how writers can manage rejections and marketing

Lee Cole Bonus - how Lee found old books at his grandparents to build his characters and worlds

Lee Cole on the ethics of writing about home, and the people who stay and leave small towns

Bonus! Joanna Pocock on why your phone and notebook might be all you need to write

LIVE! Agnes Lidbeck and how to write about major adjustments and characters that frustrate us

Joanna Pocock on writing about kindness and perspective on the American Road

Ask the Host! Liam on Latest Reads, Favourite Bookshop, and Reality TV

BONUS! Gurnaik Johal on Objects, Perfect Art and Buster Keaton

Gurnaik Johal on Rivers, Family and Pub Chats

Yan Ge Part 2 on Vulnerabilities, Younger Selves, Parents

Yan Ge Part 1 on Happiness, Elsewhere, and Striving

Kimberly Campanello - Bonus Content with memory, flags and music

Kimberly Campanello on Autofiction, the Midwest, and Notebooks

Uttama Kirit Patel on Letters, Motherhood, and Mother-in-Laws

Ask the Bookshop- Bonus! On Leeds, Community and Safe Spaces

Roisin Dunnett on Time Travel, Protest, and Littering

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer Part 2 - On Clowns, Mothers and Part Time Jobs

Rippling Pages Live with Katharina Volckmer - Part 1 - on Call Centres, Intimacy and Toilet Humour

Ask the Host! Liam on Dream Guests, New Books, and Talking to Animals

Elaine Garvey on 2002, Wadrobe Departments, and Women Walking

Bonus Content - Benjamin Markovits on Subtexts, Michael Jordan, and family favourites!

Benjamin Markovits on Basketball, Family, and Illness

Bonus Content with Marni Appleton - Taylor Swift, and Getting Up Early

Marni Appleton on Spotlights, Mirrors and the Art of the Title

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Vincenzo Latronico - Berlin, Italian novels, and on being translated into English

Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection, Authenticity, and Things

Rippling Points - Bonus Content with Pola Oloixarac - Archives, Horoscopes, and Twisted Desire

Pola Oloixarac and Unreliability, Energies, and Dopamine

Iris Mwanza - Zambia, Human Rights, and Elections

Friða Ísberg and THE MARK

Naomi Wood and THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

Sam Sax and YR DEAD

Jennifer Lucy Allan and CLAY: A HUMAN HISTORY

Bruce Omar Yates and The Muslim Cowboy

Claire Carroll and The Unreliable Nature Writer

Marchelle Farrell and By the River

Marianne Brooker and Intervals

Dawn Garisch and Breaking Milk

Rachel Mann and Eleanor Among the Saints

Jo Scott-Coe on the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman

Charlotte Eichler and Swimming Between Islands

Baron Wormser on Silence, Solitude and Shakespeare

Leslie Smolan and the Life and Work of Rodney Smith

Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Azúcar

James Clarke and Sanderson’s Isle

Bloomsday special with Helen Palmer!

Duncan Wiese and TITYRUS: A PASTORAL

Soraya Palmer and The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Catalan Literature in Translation Special!

Seraphina Madsen and Aurora

Caitlin Stobie and THIN SLICES

Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals

Nicholas Royle and White Spines:

Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time

Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In

Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea

Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA

Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry on Sevastopol

Charlie Baylis and Santa Lucía

Jo Scott-Coe on MASS

Jessie Greengrass on the High House

Jeff Chon and Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun

Khalisa Rae and Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat

Polly Barton and Fifty Sounds

Jacqueline Bishop on Jamaican Women Writers

Samatar Elmi and A Portrait of Colossus

Katherine Lockton on Paper Doll - Flipped Eye Anniversary Part 1

How to Get in Touch with the Rippling Pages Podcast

Neil Griffiths on TRAUMA: Writing About Art and Mental Health

Olja Knežević and Catherine the Great and the Small

Jen Calleja on Time and Goblins

Katharina Volckmer and The Appointment

Gaia Holmes and 'RESIST'

Thomas Chadwick and 'Above the Fat'