Journal

Step Outside Your Own Story And Be a Better Writer

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

Writing characters and narratives from cultures different to your own pushes you to question assumptions, expand your understanding, and develop deeper empathy. The process transforms not just your writing but…

How Migration Made Liverpool a Music City

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

The Irish, the Welsh, the Chinese, the West African and Caribbean seamen, the Cunard crews — and the Liverpool 8 album a record company would not let a Black band…

Writing Workshops in Merseyside: Why Every Writer Needs a Creative Community

Trevor Davies August 26, 2026 No Comments

Writing workshops transform the solitary craft into a shared journey of growth and creativity. Writers indeed spend countless hours alone with their words, but this isolation can breed loneliness and…

How to Write About Gukurahundi: A Sensitive Guide for Fiction Authors

Trevor Davies August 23, 2026 No Comments

Writing about Gukurahundi demands both courage and immense responsibility. I’m Trevor Davies, and I understand the weight you carry when approaching such painful history. The massacres in Matabeleland represent one…

The Liverpool Dockers’ Dispute, 1995–98

Trevor Davies August 22, 2026 No Comments

It began with five men and an overtime payment and ended twenty-eight months later with nobody reinstated. What happened, why the union could not make it official, and why it…

Who Killed Herbert Chitepo?

Trevor Davies August 15, 2026 No Comments

No one has ever been convicted. A Zambian commission blamed ZANU’s own high command; Rhodesian intelligence officers claimed the killing as theirs. The evidence for each, fifty years on.

What I Learned About How to Empower Our Youth After Working With Young Creators

Trevor Davies April 12, 2026 No Comments

I’m Trevor Davies, and working with young creators changed everything I thought I knew about empowering our youth. They don’t need our pity or patronising programmes. They need genuine opportunities,…

The Orange Lodge in Liverpool

Trevor Davies April 11, 2026 No Comments

Liverpool had the largest Orange presence of any city in England, and for a century and a half the Twelfth of July was a bigger day here than anywhere outside…