Show Notes
The Nine Dots Prize is a prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary societal issues. The aim of the Prize is to promote, encourage and engage innovative thinking to address problems facing the modern world. We look for entries that are based on evidence and research but that are written creatively for a wide audience. This podcast talks with three successful authors about their experiences with writing non-fiction in a creative way and hears their tips and techniques for success. We talk to Anne Applebaum, who reads from her book Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 (Allen Lane), and discusses her other recent books Gulag: A History (Doubleday) and Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Penguin Randomhouse). Adam Kay discusses collating his diaries into a book form and reads from the result This Is Going To Hurt (Picador). And Maria Farrell outlines how she used fiction as a way to communicate complex ideas. Maria read from her work, Falling for Mishi (™), which was written for the Internet Society's Global Internet Report.
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This podcast is for all those interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or in writing non-fiction more generally. This episode looks at answering questions, where you start, how to find a way in to a topic, and what our Board think about when they are judging the answers submitted to the Nine Dots Prize. We hear from three of our Prize winners, Dr Annie Zaidi, Trish Lorenz and Dr Joanna Kusiak, along with Board member Dr Linda Yueh CBE (University of Oxford/ London Business School) in the studio. You can find a transcript of this podcast here: https://ninedotsprize.org/transcript-of-nine-dots-podcast-10-answering-questions-02-2026/.
This podcast is for all those interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or in writing non-fiction more generally.
This podcast is for all those interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or in writing non-fiction more generally. This episode looks at questions: why questions are important, how to come up with questions that we want to research and write about, and how the Board picks questions that they feel will contribute to discussion and debate. We hear from three of our brilliant Board members, Dr Linda Yueh CBE (University of Oxford/ London Business School) in the studio, and Professors J Jarpa Dawuni (Howard University) and Riccardo Rebonato (EDHEC Business School) online. A transcript of this episode can be found here: https://ninedotsprize.org/transcript-of-nine-dots-prize-podcast-9-answering-questions-01-2026/.
This podcast is for all those interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or in writing non-fiction more generally. This episode looks as questions, why questions are important, how to come up with questions that we want to research and write about, and how the Board picks questions that they feel will contribute to future discussion and debate. We hear from three of our brilliant Board members, Dr Linda Yueh CBE (University of Oxford/ London Business School) in the studio, along with Professors J Jarpa Dawuni (Howard University) and Riccardo Rebonato (EDHEC Business School) online. You can find a transcript of this podcast here: https://ninedotsprize.org/transcript-of-nine-dots-prize-podcast-9-answering-questions-01-2026/.
This podcast is for all those interested in applying for the Nine Dots Prize, or in writing non-fiction more generally.