Show Notes
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).
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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.