The Nine Dots Prize has created a series of podcasts for those interesting in applying for the Prize, or anyone trying to improve their writing. 

This episode looks at something every writer wants to achieve - how to make your ideas inspire and enthrall the reader. In this episide we hear from: Professor Devi Sridhar (public health expert and author), Dr Mya-Rose Craig (ornithologist and campaigner) and Professor David Runciman (academic and journalist). 

This is a podcast for anyone interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or interested in creative non-fiction writing more generally.

In this episode, we will be exploring one of the key challenges in any piece of writing - inspiration; how to get creative ideas and how to get these down on paper. 

We talk with three successful writers about where they find their inspirations: Stella Duffy (writer and psychotherapist), Helen Czerski (physicist and broadcaster), and Urvashi Butalia (publisher and writer). 

The Nine Dots Prize is a prize for creative thinking and writing about contemporary social issues. The aim of the Prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world.

This episode looks at how writers seek to persuade their readers that their subject is a worthy one and that their ideas and solutions are valuable. 

In this episode we talk to: Eva Wolfangel, science journalist and Nine Dots Prize Board member; Philip Collins, journalist and political speechwriter; and Onjali Rauf, campaigner and children's writer.