June 13, 2022
Join me on Friday at 4pm for The Festival Show on North Manchester FM. This week’s episode will be taking a last look at Manchester Histories Festival before turning to this year’s Manchester City of Literature Festival of Libraries, and … Continue reading
December 21, 2021
Over the winter, I’ve been posting another series of writing prompts inspired by some of the places associated with Clayton Hall. I started with the Hall itself, then went to Crumpsall Park, Chetham’s Library and Boggart Hole Clough. For this … Continue reading
December 3, 2021
This winter, I’ve been posting a series of writing prompts inspired by some of the places associated with Clayton Hall. This week, I moved to Boggart Hole Clough. When I posted my previous writing prompts, I included a little bit … Continue reading
November 26, 2021
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been posting another series of creative writing prompts inspired by Clayton Hall. I’m travelling around the story of the Hall, posting some more prompts inspired by associated places. And this week, I moved … Continue reading
November 19, 2021
Last week, I started posting a series of wintery writing prompts inspired by Clayton Hall and some of the places associated with its story. I’ll be going to a few places inspired by the Hall over the coming month, and … Continue reading
November 12, 2021
As writer-in-residence at Clayton Hall, I’ve done a couple of sets of short writing exercises this year inspired by the Hall and the things you can find there. I did a Spring set of writing prompts, and then a Summer … Continue reading
August 20, 2021
Over the summer, I’ve been posting a series of writing prompts inspired by Clayton Hall and some of the places associated with its story. I went to Chetham’s Library, and then Boggart Hole Clough and Bailey’s Wood. This final set … Continue reading
August 13, 2021
Over the summer, I’ve been posting another series of writing prompts inspired by some of the places associated with Clayton Hall. I started with the Hall itself, then went to Chetham’s Library and Boggart Hole Clough. This week, I moved … Continue reading
August 6, 2021
Over the summer, I’m posting a series of writing prompts inspired by some of the places associated with Clayton Hall. I started with the Hall itself, then went to Chetham’s Library. This week, I moved to Boggart Hole Clough. When … Continue reading
July 30, 2021
Last week, I posted another series of creative writing prompts inspired by Clayton Hall. For the next couple of weeks, I’m going to once again travel around the story of the Hall, posting some more prompts inspired by associated places. … Continue reading