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The Failing Writers Podcast — 159 episodes
S6 Ep4: Philippa Perry - From fact to fiction
S6 Ep3: How To Write & Perform A Play
S6 Ep2: Gareth Rubin - books about books about books
S6 Ep1: Setting Targets (or 'Own Goals' as Jon likes to call them)
S6 Ep0: Season 6 trailer!
S5 Ep24: Doug Johnstone
S5 Ep23: The Scottish Literary Legends
S5 Ep22: Michael Pederson
S5 Ep21: Flash Fiction Contest Runners Up 2025
S5 Ep20: 2025 Flash Fiction Contest FINAL!
S5 Ep19: Talking self publishing with a very special guest
S5 Ep18: Map Men (Map Men Map Map Map Men Men)
S5 Ep17: Autumn Woods - How to go viral on TikTok
S5 Ep16: FLASH FICTION COMPETITION!
S5 Ep15: Small Publishers Pt2 (From the brilliant BlueMoose Books - to those nasty scammers)
S5 Ep14: Small Independent Publishers Pt1
S5 Ep13: Doug Naylor on Red Dwarf & Writing for Children
S5 Ep12: Ben Aaronovitch
S5 Ep11: Hamilton Nolan - Publishing laid bare
S5 Ep10: A natter with Knappett - Jessica Knappett interview
S5 Ep9: Putting on an Edinburgh festival show - with Samia Rida
S5 Ep8: Thomas Taylor
S5 Ep7: Open Mic Poetry Night
S5 Ep6: Libbie Hawker: 10 years of Taking Off Your Pants
S5 Ep5: Mur Lafferty - Facing Down the Demons
S5 Ep4: Adam Buxton: The ups and downs of memoir writing
S5 Ep3: Lyrical Waxings With Paul Armfield
S5 Ep2: C.J. Tudor is back
S5 Ep1: Jennie Godfrey
Anything 4 U - Ep6 - Finished
Anything 4 U - Ep5 - Tipped
Anything 4 U - Ep4 - Swabbed
Anything 4 U - Ep3 - Catered
Anything 4 U - Ep2 - Dumped
Anything 4 U - Ep1 - Stripped
S4 Ep27 A Stroll Down Memory Lane
S4 Ep26 Flash Fiction Competition Runners Up 2024
S4 Ep25 Festive Flash Fiction WINNER
S4 Ep24 The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
S4 Ep23 Resuscitating The Subject of English (pt2)
S4 Ep22 Resuscitating The Subject of English (pt1)
S4 Ep21: Henry Normal & Performing Poetry
S4 Ep 20: The Failing Writers Festive Flash Fiction Competition
S4 Ep19: Ergodic Fiction
S4 Ep18: What do we think of writing retreats?
S4 Ep17: A Shortcut To Querying Success
S4 Ep16: Let's put off procrastinating, with Oliver Burkeman
S4 Ep15: How do you know if your writing is good enough?
S4 Ep14: How to become a full-time author... maybe
S4 Ep 13: Tune that name! All about pseudonyms
S4 Ep 12: Mike Gayle
S4 Ep11: Samuel Burr & The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
S4 Ep10: Does Age Matter? with Aline Dufflocq & Babette Hughes
S4 Ep9: Darren Walsh - He Knows His Punions
S4 Ep8: A tour of Scarfolk, with Richard Littler
S4 Ep7: Robert Popper
S4 Ep6: Improv Your Writing - with Ruth Bratt
S4 Ep5: The Interview That Went A Bit Wrong
S4 Ep4: Writers Unite! with Sarah from Writers' HQ & Debut Novelist Samuel Burr
S4 Ep3: The Full Brontë
S4 Ep2: Jessica Bull - Miss Austen Investigates
S4 Ep1: Danny Wallace
S3 Ep27: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt2)
S3 Ep26: Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas (pt1)
S3 Ep25: Alec Worley: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror & Comics.
S3 Ep24: Word Games: The League of the Lexicon
S3 Ep23: The Runners Up
S3 Ep22: Nanowrimo Special: How NOT to write a novel with Howard Mittelmark
S3 Ep21: Writing Ghost Stories: with Stephen Volk & Ciaran O'Keeffe
S3 Ep20: How to write a book using ChatGPT - Andy Stanton
S3 Ep19: 2023 Flash Fiction Competition Winners!
S3 Ep18: The Bookshop Episode
S3 Ep17: A Simon Armitage, Stanza Stone Special. For National Poetry Day 2023
S3 Ep16: Oliver Mol - Train Lord
S3 Ep15: Emma Healey
S3 Ep14: £500 flash fiction contest - entry details!
S3 Ep13: A chat with Patrick Ness
S3 Ep12: Where does the word etymology come from?
S3 Ep11: Storytime!
S3 Ep10: Crime Writing with Mark Billingham
S3 Ep9: Jack Meggitt-Phillips
S3 Ep8: A (Joanna) Frank Discussion About The World Of Publishing
S3 Ep7: That's it, I quit...
S3 Ep6: Laura Barton Interview
S3 Ep5: There was a podcast about limericks...
S3 Ep4: Ian McMillan
S3 Ep3: ChatGPT, Kasim Ali and Orcs
S3 Ep2: Stuart Turton
S3 Ep1: Elaborating on collaborating
S2 Ep31: Finally... we pitch Poker Night
S2 Ep30: End of season-ish
S2 Ep29: Lucy Porter interview
S2 Ep28: Halloween and Sunyi Dean
S2 Ep27: Talking Pitching with TV Exec Saskia Schuster
S2 Ep26: The Episode That Was Never Meant To Be
S2 Ep25: National Poetry Day 2022
S2 Ep24: We have a winner!
S2 Ep23: Quite a long longlist
S2 Ep22: An enthricing chat about not much
S2 Ep21: Talking with Evan S Smith
S2 Ep20: Developing Characters
S2 Ep19: On the other Rand (plus the competition entry details!)
S2 Ep18: Benjamin Stevenson - AND ANOTHER BIG COMPETITION!!
S2 Ep17: Janice Horton - The Backpacking Housewife
S2 Ep16: David Quantick interview
S2 Ep15: The last word on bad writing
S2 Ep14: Dave's Spooky War Book
S2 Ep13: The Freshly Award Winning Screenwriter Paul Quinn
S2 Ep12: Julia Roberts. No, not that one.
S2 Ep11: Talking with Joanna Penn
S2 Ep10: Cards on the table about Poker Night (and a mystery guest)
S2 Ep9: A critical review of Jon's Tree story
S2 Ep8: Nels Abbey, author of Think Like a White Man
S2 Ep7: Constrictive Criticism
S2 Ep6: Interview with Will Storr, author of The Science of Storytelling
S2 Ep5: Talking Sitcomedydramas
S2 Ep4: Emma Kennedy
S2 Ep3: Writing Competitions
S2 Ep2: An interview with Jeremy Dyson
S2 Ep1: We're back! Welcome to Season 2
S2: Here we go again!
S1 Ep37: End of season spectacular (pt2)
S1 Ep36: The End of Season SPECTACULAR (pt1)
S1 Ep35: The Failing Writer's Christmas Special Spectacular!
S1 Ep34: Sally Wainwright
S1 Ep33: Our 250 word NYC midnight flash fiction challenge
S1 Ep32: Lets' talk about using f*$%ing apostrophe's correctly with Simon Griffin
S1 Ep31: The greatest day of Jon's life - an interview with Andy Stanton
S1 Ep30: An interview with Tim Glister - author of "Red Corona"
S1 Ep29: Poetic Judgement (with the right honourable Kate Fox presiding)
S1 Ep28: And the winner is…
S1 Ep27: Children's Author Adam Bushnell
S1 Ep26: The Brainstorm Ideagasm
S1 Ep25: Interview with writer and illustrator Jason Cockcroft... and our own amazing artwork
S1 Ep24: Halloween flash fiction contest - plus Tim Craig's tip-top top tips
S1 Ep23: Rosie Wilby, a writer's room zoom AND A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
S1 Ep22: A (not so) mystery guest special!
S1 Ep21: Talking to best-selling Gillian McAllister!
S1 Ep20: Save the f%@#!ng cat
S1 Ep19: Talking TV, comedy and California with Adrian Poynton
S1 Ep18: Whingefest '21
S1 Ep17: Let's do it LIVE!
S1 Ep16: Hidden Tools of Comedy review & Chris Paling interview
S1 Ep15: The Little Pod of Horrors!
S1 Ep14: "In one eye and out the other" with stand-up poet, Kate Fox
S1 Ep13: A chat with CJ Tudor
S1 Ep12: Rejections
S1 Ep11: I can't believe it's Caimh! (That rhymes by the way!?)
S1 Ep10: Logs, trees and beats
S1 Ep9: A nice chat with Beth Chalmers
S1 Ep8: From first pages to review rages
S1 Ep7: OMG it's OMJ Ryan
S1 Ep6: Robot Writers
S1 Ep5: Ideas about ideas!
S1 Ep4: Aural Sex
S1 Ep3: Erotica's a hard one
S1 Ep2: Teenangstasaurus
S1 Ep1: There's No Hope
S1: Episode 0 - Introducing failure