Hello! Welcome to Re-Draft Podcast - the podcast by writers, for writers - episode 10 with Valerie O'Riordan.

Dr Valerie O'Riordan is a writer, critic and academic. She lectures in Creative Writing and English at the University of Bolton, focussing on fiction-writing, critical, cultural and literary theory, and student employability. Her fiction has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including Tin House, LitMag, The Lonely Crowd, and The Manchester Review, and she is currently working on a novel, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England. In 2019 she was awarded an O.Henry prize for her short story, 'Bad Girl'. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• You might have noticed it's quite warm...
• Growing up Irish and Irish literature and cinema
• Expensive housing locking us out of opportunities
• Draft as you go? How Val edits
• Find something too hard? Quit!
• Running a zine online
• How to become a lecturer!
• And much more...

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