The Creative Way

In this episode, I talk about my journey, as a poet, and about modern poetry. The kind of poetry I love to read, and to write. The kind of poetry that’s having a moment right now. The kind of poetry that appeals to the masses, and sells in the thousands, and even millions. Poets like Nikita Gill, Donna Ashworth, Rupi Kaur, Hollie McNish, Harry Baker and Jess Urlichs are changing the form - and rec...

Java Bere is an artist, writer and stylist. She shares photographs and videos of her beautiful, colourful, maximalist home and tells stories of ‘home’ in the captions. “I’ve always been creative,” she says, “but since stopping drinking [18 months ago], the focus pull has gone completely to my creative life.” We speak about Java’s book deal for Your Space, Your Story: A creative guide to personal i...

Rosamund Dean is the author of two non-fiction books - Mindful Drinking and Reconstruction - she’s written as a journalist for all the national newspapers and women’s magazines and she was deputy editor of Grazia . After some years spent freelancing, Rosamund recently took a job at Guardian Labs as a commissioning editor. In this podcast episode, we talk about freelancing VS employment and how to...

Caro Giles is the author of two memoirs: Twelve Moons and Unschooled, a columnist for Psychologies , an essayist on Substack and a single parent/carer to four girls. She writes in small pockets of time, around school drop-offs and home-educating. Caro is currently on a marketing push to sell 500 copies of the hardback version of Unschooled so that it can be published in paperback. We talk about ho...

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Do you have a day job and write around the edges, so that you’re writing for love not money, or do you find a way to make it become your job? Plus, ideas for different ways to earn a living from your writing, the (creative) power of self-publishing and notes on creativity integrity. If you'd like to join my course - The Creative Way to grow a career online (without burning out or getting bored) -...

In this week’s episode of The Creative Way podcast, I’m talking about what makes you a ‘real writer’. Because it took me a ridiculously long time to feel like one and it came from an unexpected twist in my writing career. I also cover the period I spent trying to balance running an online course business with writing books, burnout, neurodivergence, becoming a poet for a year - living off savings...

Welcome to the first episode of The Creative Way podcast. I'm Annie Ridout, a non-fiction author, journalist, ghostwriter, poet and bestselling writer on Substack. I write personal essays under my name, Annie Ridout , and I run a writers' membership called The Creative Way Collective . Lastly, I run a platform on Substack about neurodivergence and creativity, called We Hyperfocus . This episode is...