Sam Sedgman

Sam Sedgman is a writer, editor and digital content producer based in London. He was the Digital Producer and Editor at Free Word Centre until January 2015. He has previously worked in the digital media team of the National Theatre, and as a freelance content producer for arts organisations up and down the country. He also edits the London Playwrights Blog.

2015, Innovations in the digital field

Is technology a help or a hindrance for writers?

by Sam Sedgman • September 28, 2015

The internet can be a real problem. Or at least that’s how many writers, including Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby, sometimes feel. They are two of a cohort of writers who confess to keeping their working habits in check by downloading software like SelfControl and Freedom – programs which block access to the internet in…

Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?

by Sam Sedgman • April 19, 2015

After recently moving house, and being confronted box by box with just how much stuff I seem to own, I found no trouble in joyfully throwing plenty of it away. But not my books. Though I threw out clothes, rugs, games, crockery, pictures, I couldn’t bring myself to throw away a single book. I hold…

Are you paying attention? How social networks are changing how we read

by Sam Sedgman • March 16, 2015

Reading a book is refreshingly anti-social. It’s hard to read a book when someone is talking to you. It’s hard to read a book when you’re thinking about something else. It’s one of the few artforms we have where you have to pay attention the whole time, and do it, for the most part, by…