First Graft


First Graft Podcast

Join me as I write my next novel, The Sound Mirror, share the ups and downs, breakthroughs and frustrations, and my endless procrastination. Come along on my research trips, listen to interviews with other writers and publishing folk. Get tips, share your progress or questions, tell me your challenges, laugh at my stupid false starts. Even better, write along with me! First drafts are hard graft, so we best get writing.

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Join me as I talk to…

Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing, The Gallows Pole, Pig Iron and Beastings

Katherine Angel, the author of Daddy Issues and Unmastered: A Book On Desire, Most Difficult To Tell. Her next book is called Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, and will be published by Verso.

Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul.

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First Graft with Adelle Stripe – First Graft Podcast

Send us a textIn this episode Adelle Stripe and I talk about her writing process, living with another writer, working through self-doubt and the punk rock gardening club. We also give a shout out to 3:AM, Andrew Gallix, Ben Myers and Lee Rourke. Adelle Stripe is a writer based in West Yorkshire.Her books include the Sunday Times bestseller Ten Thousand Apologies and Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, a fictionalised biography inspired by the playwright Andrea Dunbar. She has been shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, Portico Prize for Literature and Penderyn Music Book Prize. As a journalist, she has contributed to The Quietus, TLS, New Statesman and Record Collector. She is a recipient of Manchester University's Burgess Fellowship.https://www.adellestripe.co.ukhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/13/base-notes-by-adelle-stripe-review-an-olfactory-trip-down-memory-laneThis is the last episode in this series… time for me to work on the next novel… chat soon.
  1. First Graft with Adelle Stripe
  2. First Graft with Naomi Booth
  3. First Graft with Cauvery Madhavan
  4. First Graft with Annabel Dover
  5. First Graft with Kirsteen McNish