Emma and Tom are joined by Dr. Kate North to discuss creative writing: its place as a creative art, its interdisciplinary nature, and the fact that everyone has the right to write!

Kate tells us how creative writing can be used as an innovative way of collecting research data, and how in the process of doing so it can gently break down language barriers, throw light on competing priorities and level the playing field between powerful professions and the public they serve.

In the wellbeing slot, Kate tells us how she keeps motivated to write when nobody's cracking the whip on her, she shouts out to a student for whom an unfortunate diagnosis was the stimulus for becoming a writer, and gives us a creative writing prompt that has us all cringing even while we acknowledge its genius.

Plus, as an added bonus, we didn't want to miss the opportunity of asking Kate to read one of her poems to us! We hope the one we asked for has something to say to all of you - we loved it.

We hope you'll be back next time, when we'll have another special guest who'll be telling us what it's like to be pioneering the new curriculum in Wales.

Kate's latest collection of poems is 'The Way Out' published by Parthian Books: https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-way-out

Barbara Stensland's blog is stumblinginflats.com

• Main discussion (Creative Writing as an Expressive Art): (2:05 - 28:50)
• Wellbeing Slot (motivating yourself to write): (28:50 - 32:30)
• Shoutout (Barbara Stensland): (32:30 - 34:55)
• Something to Try (Writing Prompt): (34:55 - 38:40)

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Recorded in studio B1.12 at Cardiff Metropolitan University's Cyncoed campus on 1st November 2018