A selection of articles about my travels and experiences
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Durham Litfest 2007 in HMP Low
Newton
Reflections on the 2007 Litfest
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Inside at Low Newton
Nothing
comes from nothing. The vivid success of our 2007 Litfest Inside is the
outcome of several factors.
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Article about A Woman Scorned
for ‘News and Natter’
Hooray! How wonderful to be invited by Beatrice to write directly to my
readers. It’s my heartfelt hope that you relish reading my stories as much
as I enjoy writing them.
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Journaling
Unlike journals which are an
honest dialogue with oneself, blogs are a kind of
multi-logue with hundreds, possibly thousands of self-selected strangers.
Wendy explores her need to keep a paper journal in this
techno-obsessed world.
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Finding the Write Way
‘You probably won't earn millions doing it, but pouring out your heart on
paper can be very therapeutic. Wendy Robertson extols the healing
properties of writing, from poetry and prose to today's online Blogs’.
From the Northern Echo archive, first
published Monday 3rd Apr 2006.
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The
Inspiration for "Glass"
The
story behind the Short Story...
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The
Crossover Novel: A Really Nice Rest
The
story behind the 2004 theme
of the National Creative Writing Competition.
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Three
Sagas
Regional sagas are rarely
honored with anything except a dismissive review, yet all of us are
grounded in a sense of place and this sense is at the core of successful
novels in this field. Wendy examines the classic themes in three
sagas.
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Twentieth
Century Blues
Wendy
explores some of the
snobberies that surround Twentieth-Century historical fiction.
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National
Writing Competition (2003)
This
year the competition had
more than 240 entries; find out who won here.
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The
House Where I Was Born
An
article from the Sunday Times about the house in Lancaster where I was
born and spent the first eight years of my life, my 'fairy-tale house'.
Original Article (External Link)
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Singapore
Journey
My
2002 novel, ‘The Long Journey
Home’ was inspired by the story of a young soldier from County
Durham who was a billeting officer for women internees at the Raffles
Hotel at the Liberation of Singapore in 1945. Before completing it, I needed to go to Singapore
and this is the story of my trip.
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Historical
Novels?
A
study of three novels that are historical in that the writers have used
historical scholarship and insight to drive their narratives and to call
up historical and psychological sensitivities in their readers.
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Vienna
Recommended
I
spent some time in the Eighties visiting friends in Vienna and became
interested in its role in fiction. I recently gave a talk on this and I
thought you might like to see my list of recommended books.
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Arran
Journey
When
Mary was seventy, she visited Arran and fell in love with its spiritual,
magical qualities. ‘I felt as though I was coming home,’ she says. She
moved house, lock stock and barrel to Arran, and has been there for the
last fifteen years. I went on a trip to Arran to meet Mary, and to
be "regressed".
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The
Challenge of Radical Sentencing Erasing the Chasm Between the Bench and
the Dock
On a
visit to Boston, USA, Wendy was invited to evaluate a trail-blazing method
of dealing with criminals which involved the reading of literature instead
of incarceration as a method of reducing re-offending.
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