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We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, including:

• Flash fiction: Top tips, and what it looks like in real life, courtesy of Shropshire novelist Mark Hood, whose writing group tours the country.

• Chatting with the new poet laureate of Stoke-on-Trent, Nick Degg, who opens up on how his dyslexia hasn't held him back, taking his writing projects all over the West Midlands.

• She uses her own mental health journey to inspire her first two children's book - we get to know Stourbridge's Kate Harrison - and how she's blazing a trail for our youngest readers.

• Discover what it's like to be a jobbing actor - with green screen experience galore and getting blown up several times over by Michael Bay - courtesy of Hereford actor Jamie O'Rourke.

• Plus a new podcast studio set up in Stourport-on-Severn, and going behind-the-scenes at the new Peaky Blinders inspired murals in Birmingham.

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