Feb 2024 to Dec 2025 with Donna M Cameron and a medley of authors!

FROM THE ARCHIVES 🎙️ Welcome to Kelly's Writerly Q&A, a monthly blog series that is now a podcast!

Listen to my 23rd episode where I chat to Donna M Cameron, an AWGIE-nominated radio dramatist, award-winning playwright and short film writer. Her first novel, Beneath the Mother Tree, was published in 2018. Her second novel, The Rewilding, was published in 2024 and was shortlisted in the 25th Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. An important read!

Then I take a look back on some key tips on courses and comps, rejection, and writing and feedback from Amy Freund, R.W.R. McDonald, Deb Jordan, Casey Nott, Emma Mugglestone, Camille Booker, Clare Griffin, Kylie Orr, Shaeden Berry, and Valerie G Miller. 

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Music credit to Levgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

Chapters

• 0:54 Meet Donna M Cameron
• 1:26 How long did it take to write The Rewilding?
• 1:47 How did you edit Beneath the Mother Tree down?
• 2:44 Tell me about Varuna
• 3:28 Facing fears
• 4:37 On writing courses with Amy Freund
• 9:12 R.W.R. McDonald on his favourite writing course
• 11:09 Deb Jordan on her favourite Holly Craig's, The Write Club course
• 12:59 How Casey Nott stumbled across The Hawkeye Competition, which she long-listed in!
• 14:35 Emma Mugglestone on writing comps
• 14:54 Let's talk about rejection with Camille Booker
• 19:03 On rejection with Clare Griffin
• 20:46 One of my more memorable rejections
• 23:28 Kylie Orr talks about drafting and editing
• 25:37 Shaeden Berry discusses her writing process
• 30:58 Valerie G Miller on receiving and digesting feedback