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Start Anywhere Podcast, Episode #8 - Joel Hunt: On Bringing Creative Writing Opportunities Into Schools
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Start Anywhere Podcast, Episode #8 - Joel Hunt: On Bringing Creative Writing Opportunities Into Schools


About Joel

Joel R Hunt is a writer and school librarian from the East Midlands. He has a passion for fostering creative writing among teenagers and bringing writing opportunities into schools.

Joel’s work has been published in anthologies by World Weaver Press, The Future Looms Magazine, Black Hare Press, and his first novella, Fading Echoes, was released by Eerie River Publishing.

Joel writes regular microfiction on BlueSky:

https://bsky.app/joelrhunt.bsky.social


Featuring: drabbles, struggling to finish writing projects, perfectionism, cowboys riding into town on the backs of badgers, being cutthroat with language, former dreams of becoming a bin man, the need to write, the risk of trying and failing, safe versus brave spaces, creativity being squeezed out of young people, being gifted with poetry, bringing Shakespeare back to life, not having the language, and curating workshops charged with possibility.


Links

Nottingham Poetry Festival:

https://www.instagram.com/nottmpoetryfestival/?hl=en

First Story:

https://firststory.org.uk/

Manjit Sahota:

https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/reading-information/henrynormal/guest-poets/manjit-s-sahota/


With forever gratitude to my brother, Tom Hall, for providing the opening/closing soundtrack.

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