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S5 Ep45: Sophie Mackintosh, novelist

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

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What Are Your First Memories of Being a Writer?

In school I was really interested in writing and I kind of was writing a lot of poetry like quite quite terrible teenage poetry. When I went to uni I applied to Warwick, I related English with creative writing so they've got Like kind of yeah really good creative writing department there. Then after I graduated I moved to Glasgow for a year my ex-boyfriend was doing an MA at Glasgow in writing. I kind of worked in a coffee shop and the idea of I guess I kind of been thinking about writing a novel for a while. It seemed like kind of quite daunting but my dissertation for my undergrad was you could do like an academic option or a creative option because it was like why

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