About this episode

In this episode, we chat with Joe Pearson, the winner of the 2025 Winter Short Story competition, about his writing journey and aspirations.

Meet Joe Pearson, winner of our 2025 Winter Short Story competition with his entry All Equal in Utopia, which can now be read on our winner's blog page. As part of the prize, we want to promote new writers, and as such we chat to Joe about his writing journey, aspirations, next steps, and view on the literary landscape. Learn about Joe's bold decision to become an author by pausing his career, focusing on finding representation for his sci-fi work, whilst entering competitions to hone his ski...

People in this episode

Guest: Joe Pearson

Topics covered

• writing journey
• short story competition
• literary landscape
• sci-fi
• author aspirations

Keywords

• Joe Pearson
• Winter Short Story
• All Equal in Utopia
• writing journey
• sci-fi
• literary landscape

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All Equal in Utopia

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