Welcome to my website. I'm Morgen Bailey, host of Bailey's Writing Tips podcast, two in-person writing groups (based in Northampton, England), author of 100+ short stories, 4.5 novels, articles and poetry and regular Radio Litopia contributor.

My main web content is a writing-related blog which, just to be original, is called Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog. It features a daily author interview, twice-weekly author spotlights,  twice-weekly guest blogs, details of fortnightly podcast red pen sessions, the hints & tips / review / audio interview (and whatever else I can think of) podcast episodes, useful information such as competitions, submissions and recommended websites, a links page and much more. If you write (any genre, published or otherwise) and would like to be involved, do email me.

Apart from the blog and this website, I'm on...

• Twitter (morgenwriteruk and ntonuklitgroup - the latter of which is the Twitter home of Northampton Literature Group - which has three circles; writing (first Tuesday of each month), reading (second Tuesday), poetry (third Tuesday) and a separate Theatre Group. It costs just £10pa to be a member of any or all of the three circles.
  
• Facebook (if you're a writer or interested in writing, feel free to friend request me)
• and, as mentioned above, I blog daily.

I've been writing for six years, seriously for the last two, have been published in the UK, and rejected in the UK and overseas. Some of my fiction and writing workbook / guides are soon to be launched as e-books, with the assistance of Rachel of RDS Manuscript Assistance (website link to follow shortly), followed by short story anthologies and novellas (the links to which will be on here) - exciting stuff.

Bailey's Writing Tips podcast is available via iTunes, Google's Feedburner, Podbean (when it catches up), Podcasters (which takes even longer!) or Podcast Alley (which doesn't list the episodes but will let you subscribe) where you can subscribe or just listen.

As I mentioned above there are four types of podcasts: regular hints & tips (usually on a particular genre), audio interview or review specials and more recently 'red pen' critique sessions.

I've taken a step back from the podcast interviews and am now concentrating on the daily author blog interviews so if you write do take a look at the blog interviews page and if you feel it's something you'd like to do, feel free to contact me. It's a very simple process; you email me, to say you're interested, I email you the list of questions (a Word document), you fill in as many as are appropriate / you feel comfortable with, email them back to me with a photo or two (yourself, cover/s), I add my reactions to those comments (so it feels more of a chat than an interview) and schedule a date (I'm currently working to an 8-week leadtime) of which I advise you and put your entry on the blog interviews page. Then when it goes live I email you the direct page link (which gets added to the blog interviews page) which you can use as freely, and for as long, as you wish. :)

In the absence in the podcast schedule of the audio interviews, the 'red pen' episodes (released every other Monday) are where I read out a short story or self-contained novel extract then comment on it. I'm firm but fair but I know that the episodes are listened to around the world (NB. copyright always  remains with the author) so if you're precious about your writing then this may not be for your cup of tea.

If you have  a short story or novel extract of c. <1000 words (the episodes are 15-30 minutes only one item read out per episode) that you would like critique on then feel free to email me. I would suggest that you listen to a 'red pen' episode before contacting me to get a feel for how I critique. I'm no poet so don't feel qualified to give critique back on this however I have a plan, so poets hang fire for now and I'll change this with news if it comes to fruition. :)

So, to read more about my podcasts click here.

I also invite guest blogs and most recently <1,000-word flash fiction so if you write, take a look at guest blogs and Flash Fiction Fridays.

If you ever suffer from writer's block the click here for some sentence beginnings which may just help you. They come in first, second, third person tenses and ones marked 'you can use any pov'.

The useful info page contains details of competitions , submission opportunities, recommended websites and much more. There are also links on the links page.

For a bit of fun, there are some quotes here.

And there's also a page of other stuff.

If you want to know more about me, I have two pages on my blog called about me and my writing.