The Writers’ Gym Podcast
Build creative confidence and beat the inspiration addiction with Dr Rachel Knightley. Every episode, we’ll discuss key writing topics while exploring the goals, exercises, tools and techniques to discover what you really want from your writing — and what your writing really needs from you.
Episodes
Dr Kim Fleet, prize-winning author and Writers’ Gym member Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym is prize-winning published author, developmental editor and book coach, Kim Fleet. Dr Kim Fleet's work in indigenous land rights in Australia inspired her first two novels, Sacred Site and Featherfoot. She then turned to crime closer to home, and wrote the series of novels Paternoster, Holy B...
Showing up in the public sphere can feel overwhelming, but by noticing the messaging inside our heads, we start to enjoy showing up one authentic thing at a time. If you enjoyed listening to the Writers' Gym Podcast, head to our websites at www.writersgym.com, www.rachelknightleycoaching.com, and follow us on instagram: @jointhewritersgym @rachelknightleycoaching
Graham Bartlett, bestselling fiction and non-fiction author Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by ex homicide detective, crime writing mentor and bestselling crime author GrahamBartlett. After thirty years of policing, whereby Graham Bartlett became Brighton and Hove police's chief superintendent, a senior homicide detective and a public order and firearms commander, he is now a best-selling crime fiction a...
What’s the most damaging advice you’ve ever received as a writer? Dr Rachel Knightley reflects on what the wrong and right ‘shoulds’ can do to our ability to make time for our writing and ourselves, and how to take control of our reactions to the messaging we receive. Rachel provides a creative confidence and writing ‘Think On The Page’ Writers’ Gym exercise to create the time and writing t...
Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym this episode is award-winning author Nathan Newman.
Nathan is a novelist and filmmaker based in London. Their short stories have won awards, including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction, and been published in literary journals and anthologies.
Their debut novel, How To Leave The House was released to critical acclaim, and was a New Yorker and New York Times best boo...
Showing up for yourself and sharing your achievements can be scary, but instead of waiting for the feelings to change we can shift the focus to action that empowers. If you enjoyed listening to the Writers' Gym Podcast, head to our websites at www.writersgym.com, www.rachelknightleycoaching.com, and follow us on instagram: @jointhewritersgym @rachelknightleycoaching
Lucy Kate Barnes, Trustee and Co-Founder of Lawyers Who Care
Dr Rachel Knightley’s guest at the Writers’ Gym is her coaching client, award-winning advocate Lucy Kate Barnes.
Lucy grew up on council estates. She went into care at 13 and fell off the "care cliff" at 16. Aged 18, she studies law at Surrey. She is now a barrister. Alongside her legal career, she set up charity Lawyers Who Care and is a vocal advocate for c...
Rachel shares how a common phrase helps us cut through what we fear and focus on what we want — instead of getting caught up in unhelpful ‘what-ifs’ that suppress the creative ones. If you enjoyed listening to the Writers' Gym Podcast, head to our websites at www.writersgym.com, www.rachelknightleycoaching.com, and follow us on instagram: @jointhewritersgym @rachelknightleycoaching
Helen Marshall, multi-award-winning author and academic
Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award winning author, Dr Helen Marshall. Helen is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award for her three collections of short stories. Her debut novel The Mig...
Most of us are looking for more time. But what if instead of looking for more of it, we first look at our beliefs around how we ‘should’ use the time we already have? Dr Rachel Knightley offers thoughts and strategies around time, writing and how we allow ourselves to create the things we want to put in the world.
Dr Rachel's Knightley's guest is Ramsey Campbell, defined by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. The Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. His latest novels...
If you’re getting distracted or put off from writing, it might just be you’re spending more time in the ‘what-does-this-say-about-me’ fog than in the idea at its centre: to write your story, and to discover what that story is by writing it. Dr Rachel Knightley demonstrates how our energy, focus and time can be sucked away into that fog, or channeled into creativity.
Dr Rachel Knightley draws an the Excuses Bingo card she and members of the Writers’ Gym created in a recent workshop, and works through how each of these ‘reasons’ not to write might just contain a reminder of why we really want to write in the first place.
Dr Rachel Knightley is joined at the Writers' Gym by Emmy award winning script-writer, novelist and director Doug Naylor. He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-written every episode across thirteen series and has directed over twenty episodes. Doug also co-founded Grant Naylor Productions in 1991 which made series IV to X of Red Dwarf. Doug has also written three best selli...
What do the words we really hate, really want to tell us? Dr Rachel Knightley takes the word that annoys her the most and spends time listening to what it might have wanted to tell her – and what listening to it might mean for her confidence and creativity.
Multi-award-winning novelist Lavie Tidhar is Dr Rachel Knightley's guest on the Writers' Gym Podcast. Lavie’s work encompasses literary fiction (Maror, Adama, Golgotha and Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming and World Fantasy Award winner Osama, and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom winner Central Station. His work has been translated into multiple languages. He lives in Lo...
One thing at a time, or freedom to flip between? What system of working really summons your creativity and what gets in the way? Dr Rachel Knightley wants to hear from you.
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