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A Showcase Selected by Zara Relphman: Write On!

Pen to Print - Podcasts for Aspiring WritersFeb 21, 2023

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An interview with writer and publisher Isabelle Kenyon : Write On! Audio Weekly
Mar 26, 202433:25
A showcase selected by Jilly Henderson Long
Mar 19, 202410:17
A listener contribution from novelist Whitney Love : Write On! Audio Weekly

A listener contribution from novelist Whitney Love : Write On! Audio Weekly

Mar 12, 202420:18
Writing Tips from Hema Macherla: Write On Audio Weekly

Writing Tips from Hema Macherla: Write On Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our writing tips this month come from Hema Macherla   Hema is the author of three novels,  Breeze from the River Manjeera, Blue Eyes and Letters in the Sand all of which are published by Linen Press.  

 If you’d like to learn more about Hema, buy her books and read her articles you can visit her website  https://hemamacherla.com/

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

Mar 05, 202410:05
An Interview with Publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove : Write On! Audio Weekly
Feb 27, 202424:19
A Showcase Selected by Niema Bohrayba: Write On! Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Niema Bohrayba: Write On! Audio Weekly

Our February Showcase is selected and introduced by Niema Bohrayba  With a 20 year career in operational and strategic human resources, becoming a fellow of the chartered institute of personnel and development , Niema is now exploring the world of creative writing and working on her first book. 


Niema’s selections are


Day-After-Day by Alex Mayberry (read by Chris Gregory)

Schoolgirl Crush by Zara Relphman (read by Tiffany Clare)

The Planet is Burning by Michael Gold (read by Chris Gregory)

Enjoying the Natural World During Winter (written and performed by Niema Bohrayba)


You can find out more about the authors of the pieces you heard by following the links below

·      Alex Mayberry on Instagram: @alexmayberrythefirst

·      Zara Relphman via her website: hatchman4.wixsite.com/zararelphman

·      Michael Gold via his website: www.radicalsoapbox.com

 

And you can read more about Niema in this piece from Write On! https://pentoprint.org/write-on-features-shift-formal-creative/ 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

Feb 20, 202411:52
"The Glad Giver" An Audio Drama by Jill Korn : Write On! Audio Weekly

"The Glad Giver" An Audio Drama by Jill Korn : Write On! Audio Weekly

Our February Listener Contribution is from audio drama writer and producer Jill Korn.


Living and working in the west of Scotland and with a lifelong love of drama and the theatre, Jill has written and produced a number of full-length audio dramas which tend to focus on history and folklore.  In this podcast you can hear Jill's drama ‘The Glad Giver’ which is based on a day in the life of Julian Of Norwich.


You can find out more about Jill and her work by visiting her website here: https://www.jillkorn.com/

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Feb 13, 202433:43
Writing tips : Mab Jones and Madeleine White in conversation : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing tips : Mab Jones and Madeleine White in conversation : Write On! Audio Weekly

Our writing tips this month come from our Editor, author and poet Madeleine White and poet and broadcaster Mab Jones.   Madeleine and Mab are in discussion around poetry and staying true to your voice, even in the face of commercial considerations. Mab Jones has published two poetry collection and has worked as a presenter for BBC Radio 4, especially on programs related to Welsh themes and content.     She has won a number of awards, including the John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Prize, the Aurora Poetry Competition, the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.   As well as being the founding Editor of Write On! Madeleine White has two published books: a novel and a poetry collection. 


If you’d like to find out more about Mab Jones and her work you can follow her on X, formerly twitter here https://twitter.com/mabjones


And you can follow Madeleine White here https://twitter.com/madeleinefwhite

 We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Feb 06, 202431:48
A Listener Contribution from Jenny Tinghui Zhang : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from Jenny Tinghui Zhang : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our listener contribution this month comes from Jenny Tinghui Zhang.  Jenny is a Chinese American author, originally from Changchun China but now based in Austin Texas.  Her debut novel “Four treasures of the Sky” was a New York Times Book Review editors choice and reviewed in the Washington Post, Publishers Week and on National Public Radio.

 

You can find out more about Jenny by visiting her website here https://www.jennytinghui.com/

 

And follow her on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/sunspotletters/

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

Jan 30, 202411:55
An Interview with Novelist Frances Hardinge : Write On! Audio Weekly
Jan 23, 202412:20
A Showcase Selected by Helen Aitchison

A Showcase Selected by Helen Aitchison

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print


This month’s showcase is selected by Helen Aitchison.  Hailing from the north-east of England, Helen combines writing with her work as the director of a Community Interest Company, ’Write On The Tyne’, which provides creative writing courses and mentoring with a focus on engaging marginalised people in the area.   Helen also teaches for her local council, is a freelance writer for Story Terrace and an on-line journalist for Radio Gateshead.


The pieces selected by Helen are


•      The Strange Magic Of New Beginnings, by Christian Ward

•      After Print, by Viv Fogel

•      A snippet from Duty, a memoir by Jeff Stephenson

•      Enough by Helen Aitchison


The pieces are read by Chris Gregory and Sally Walker-Taylor and introduced by Helen Aitchison. After Print is part of the poetry collection Imperfect Beginnings, published by Fly On The Wall Press. It is available from Amazon and good bookshops.


Thank you to Helen Aitchison for selecting this month’s showcase.   You can find out more about Helen by visiting her website https://helenaitchisonwrites.wordpress.com/

 

You can follow Helen on X, formerly Twitter here https://twitter.com/aitchisonwrites

And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/helen.aitchison_writes/

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Jan 16, 202412:47
Ark: An Audio Drama: Write On! Audio Weekly

Ark: An Audio Drama: Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

This week we’re sharing the winning entry in the 2023 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition.  Ark is a comedy murder mystery set aboard Noah’s Ark and it is written by writer, actor and improv-performer Stephanie Weston


In Ark by Stephanie Weston you can hear

 

 Tiffany Clare as Parphia

Charlie Richards as Japhet

Emily Inkpen as Olla

Stephanie Weston as Leah

And Chris Gregory as Ham
Ark was directed by Chris Gregory and Emily Inkpen 

 Sound design, music and editing were by Chris Gregory 

Ark was recorded at Orpheus Studio in London and by Richard Campbell 

 

Ark by Stephanie Weston was the winner of the 2023 Pen to Print Audio Play competition.  If you would like to enter the 2024 competition which is aimed at new and first time writers you'll need to be a resident of the UK and submit a script of approximately half an hour.  You'll find a full set of regulations and more details about the competition on the pen to print website  https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/competitions-2023/

 

You can find out more about Stephanie Weston by visiting her website https://tabb.cc/stephanie-weston

And you can follow Stephanie on instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stephanie__weston/

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Jan 09, 202435:03
Writing tips from novelist Lynne Golodner : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing tips from novelist Lynne Golodner : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print


Our first podcast of 2024 features writing tips from Lynne Golodner.  An author of 8 novels and numerous articles, Lynne is also a podcast host, business woman and writing coach specialising in helping writers to develop brand strategies.


 Thank you to Lynne Golodner for these useful writing tips. 


Find out more about Lynne Golodner by visiting her website here https://lynnegolodner.com/

You can follow Lynne on X, formerly Twitter here https://twitter.com/YourPeople

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 


Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England


Jan 02, 202408:48
An interview with actor and novelist Paterson Joseph : Write On! Audio Weekly

An interview with actor and novelist Paterson Joseph : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our December interview is with actor and writer Paterson Joseph.   Currently appearing in BBC TV’s drama Boat Story , Paterson Joseph came to widespread public attention for his role as Johnson in Channel 4’s Peepshow.  His debut novel The Secret Diaries Of Charles Ignatius Sancho was published in 2022. It was shortlisted for the Jhalak prize and won the Christopher Bland Prize.

The interviewer is Thomas Nixon


Thank you to Paterson Joseph for being the subject of our December interview. 

You can purchase a copy of The Secret Diaries Of Charles Ignatius Sancho from Waterstones’s here https://www.waterstones.com/author/paterson-joseph/2282968

And you can follow Paterson on X, formerly Twitter here https://twitter.com/ignatius_sancho


As this is our final podcast of 2023 we’d like to wish all our listeners a happy new year.  We’ll see you next week for our first podcast of 2024.

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

Dec 26, 202343:15
A Festive Showcase Selected by Palak Tewary : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Festive Showcase Selected by Palak Tewary : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print


Our December Showcase is selected and presented by Write On! team member Palak Tewary. A writer and business woman, Palak is the author of a poetry collection The Stanzas of Time, published in November.


The pieces featured in this showcase were:

  • Paths of Gems by Elaine Hickman-Luter
  • The Homeless Poet by Leslie Sheils
  • In Winter by Eithne Cullen
  • Christmas Special by Claire Buss
  • Masks by Palak Tewary

The readers were Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory


Thank you to Palak Tewary for selecting this month’s showcase.   You can find out more about Palak and her work by visiting her website https://palaktewary.com/

This is our final podcast before the holiday season so we would like to wish all our listeners who celebrate it a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.    Join us next week for an interview with actor and writer Paterson Joseph who is in conversation with Thomas Nixon

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

  

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Dec 19, 202311:45
'Christmas at Melrose' read by the Write On! Team : Write On! Audio Weekly
Dec 12, 202303:58
Writing Tips: Buddy Writing with Christine Penhall and Lizzie Chantree : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing Tips: Buddy Writing with Christine Penhall and Lizzie Chantree : Write On! Audio Weekly

Dec 05, 202315:01
An Interview with Novelist Elen Sentier : Write On! Audio Weekly

An Interview with Novelist Elen Sentier : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

This months' interview is with novelist and life coach Elen Sentier.   The best-selling author of 12 books, Elen describes herself as an author of "magical-realism and British cunning folk.” Her writing draws on shamanism, paganism, folklore and magic.  She is also known for her paranormal mystery suspense novels.


The interviewer is Eithne Cullen who is alongside Write On! Editor Madeleine White


If you’d like to learn more about Elen and her work please visit here website www.elensentier.com

 

You can also follow Elen on X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/elensentier

And on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/elensentier009

 

Please join us for our first December podcast on Tuesday 5th December in which we’ll share writing tips from Christine Penhall

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Nov 28, 202340:07
A Showcase Selected by Afsana Elanko : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Afsana Elanko : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

This month’s showcase is selected by Afsana Elanko  

 

Artist and writer Dr Afsana Elanko is also an award-winning doctor, with a special interest in oncology, educationalist, leader, policy maker  and innovator. Part of the Write On! team for the last couple of years, she combines a passion for promoting advances in medicine with a love of the arts.  Other than writing for Write On! Dr Afsana’s work has appeared in the Guardian as well as other main stream publications and medical journals. 


In the showcase you can hear the following pieces  

Realities and Perceptions of the World by Sebastian Elanko  

A.I by Nayesh Radia  

To Retire or Not to Retire?  That is the Question by Tony Dileen 

Here You Are by Ladyray 


The readers in this showcase were Sally Walker-Taylor and Chris Gregory 

 Join us next week for an interview with novelist Elen Sentier  

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England 

Nov 21, 202314:38
A Listener Contribution from Jeff Tullin : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from Jeff Tullin : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   

 

This month’s listener contribution is an original monologue written and performed by Jeff Tullin.    Jeff lives in the East Midlands and is a member of the Derbyshire Script Writers group, and the Hasland Theatre Company Chesterfield. He retired from a lifetime career in IT a few years ago, and took the opportunity to return to amateur dramatics and writing - short scripts, stories, and poems. Previously performed pieces include 'Unspoken Words' in the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield. This is the first time he's tried recording a spoken word piece, but he's hoping to get further into audio works in the future. 

“The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Death” is written, performed and recorded by Jeff Tullin   

You can find out more about Jeff and his work by following him on X (formerly Twitter) here  https://twitter.com/Jeff_Tullin 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  

  

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/  

  

  

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.  

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England 


Nov 14, 202316:09
Writing Tips from Merle R Saferstein: Write On! Audio Weekly
Nov 07, 202315:56
An Interview with Writer and Activist Rouhi Shafii : Write On! Audio Weekly

An Interview with Writer and Activist Rouhi Shafii : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our October interview is with Rouhi Shafii

 

 Rouhi Shafii is a sociologist, author, translator and women and human rights activist. She has published a number of books in both English and Persian.

 

Since the early nineties, she has presented papers on Iran in various venues including universities, amnesty international UK and side events at the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.  In 2010, she and a number of women activists set up International Coalition Against Violence in Iran.

 

Rouhi is currently chair of Exiled Writers Ink, a British literary charity dedicated to promoting the work of exile and refugee writers and poets.

 

The interviewer is Farzana Hakim who was alongside Writer On! Editor, Madeleine White


 

You can read more about Rouhi Shafii and her work by visiting her website http://www.rouhi-shafii.com/

 

And follow her on X (formerly twitter) here https://twitter.com/rouhi_shafii

 

Find out more about Exiled Writers Ink by visiting their website here https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/

 

And follow them on X here https://twitter.com/rouhineh

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Oct 24, 202341:49
A Showcase Selected by Charlotte Maddox of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Charlotte Maddox of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

This month’s showcase is selected by Charlotte Maddox.  Charlotte is the Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation,  a literature and literacy charity, championing “adventure” as a genre. The foundation runs the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and supports new writers as well as offering opportunities for children and young people.

 

For this showcase Charlotte has curated a selection of stories and poems that explore reality and perceptions, and the blurred lines in between. The first piece is a short story from Matthew Di Paoli, the author of Killstanbul and Holliday, winner of the Foundation’s 2017 New Voices Award.   The reader is Chris Gregory

 

Charlotte’s next selection is a poem by Latha Rajasekar which highlights the contrast between the external and internal.  Sally Walker-Taylor is the reader of this piece.

 

Charlotte’s  final selection is by Joe Totten, who was one of the winners of the 2022 New Voices Award, which supports emerging writers, offering a year of mentorship and editorial guidance from an industry expert. This extract is the opening to the novel Joe has been working on this last year, called ‘Utopia, Texas’. Chris Gregory is the reader.

 

Thank you to Charlotte Maddox for selecting our October showcase. Find out more about the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation including the Adventure Writing Prize for which Charlotte is responsible by visiting their website here https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/

 

You can also follow the foundation on X (formerly twitter) here https://twitter.com/Wilbur_Niso_Fdn

 

Just us next week for an interview with Iranian writer and rights activist Rouhi Shafii

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

Oct 17, 202315:29
A Listener Contribution from Novelist Millie Murray : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from Novelist Millie Murray : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our listener contribution this month is from Millie Murray.  Born in 1958 to Jamaican parents. Millie has lived all of her life in the east of London.  She writes fiction and non-fiction for both young people and adults. Her first attempt at short story writing, ‘The Escape’, was published in the 1986 anthology Watchers and Seekers. Many other short stories followed, including ‘A Passage of Time’ for Radio Four’s Caribbean Drift.  Millie;s career has spanned, acting, dance and theatre production.  She works with Community and Youth Services in the London Boroughs of Newham, Barking and Dagenham offering creative writing and motivational development workshops in schools.  

 

You can follow Millie on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/milliemurray_writes

 

Find out more about Millie Murray’s books at her Goodreads page here

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/566833.Millie_Murray

 

and visit her Royal Literary Fund biography here https://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/millie-murray/

 

  

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 


Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

 

 

Oct 10, 202317:04
Writing Tips from Andreas Loizou and Daisy Buchanan of the Margate Bookie Literary Festival : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing Tips from Andreas Loizou and Daisy Buchanan of the Margate Bookie Literary Festival : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our writing tips for October are from Daisy Buchanan and Andreas Loizou of the Margate Bookie Literary Festival.  The festival runs from 19th to 22nd October in the town of Margate in Kent. You can find out more about the festival by visiting the website here https://www.margatebookie.com/

 

Follow Margate Bookie on X (formerly Twitter) here https://twitter.com/margatebookie

And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/MargateBookie/


Follow Daisy Buchanan on X here https://twitter.com/NotRollergirl

And listen to Daisy’s “You’re Booked” podcast here https://shows.acast.com/booked 


Visit Andreas Loizou’s Google Books page to find out about and order his books here  https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Story_is_Everything.html

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Oct 03, 202318:58
An interview with novelist Lavie Tidhar: Write On! Audio Weekly
Sep 26, 202331:42
A Showcase Selected by Thomas Nixon : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Thomas Nixon : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our showcase this month is selected and introduced by Thomas Nixon.    Thomas is a writer from the North of England, specialising in Flash Fiction storytelling.  His work is regularly featured in Write On Magazine, while he has written scripts for several stories in Jay Sykes' “Summer Stories showcase” . Thomas regularly hosts creative writing sessions at the Holmside Writers club, in Sunderland. 

 

The readers in this showcase are Chris Gregory and Sally Walker Taylor.  

 

Thomas’s selections are as follows

 

‘Calling Home’ by Hongwei

“Long Distance Relationship’ by Thomas Nixon

‘Once Upon a Time, A Girl Was Foolish’ by Elizabeth Keohane

‘Within’ by Elaine Hickman-Luter

The bonus piece was ‘A Doctor’s Secret’ by Sam Shakes

 

You can follow Thomas on Twitter where he posts as @Tnixon98 and on Facebook where you’ll find him by searching Thomas Nixon.

 

You can listen to the “Summer Stories” project that Thomas worked on via Soundcloud here  https://soundcloud.com/jaysykesmedia/sets/17nineteens-summer-stories

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Sep 19, 202314:28
A Listener Contribution from novelist Matthew Di Paoli : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from novelist Matthew Di Paoli : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  


Content Warning : This podcast contains descriptions of violence as depicted in Matthew Di Paoli's novel "Holliday"

 

Our September listener contribution is from Mathew Di Paoli.  Matthew’s novel “Holliday” follows the life of the legendary 1880s gambler and gunslinger, Doc Holliday and it won the Wilbur and Niso Smith Adventure Writing Prize.  A prolific writer, Di Paoli’s other novels include “quicksand” and “Other Forms of Life”.

 

You can find out more about Matthew by visiting his website https://www.matthewdipaoli.com/

 

Matthew’s novel “Holliday” is published by Sunbury Press and you can read more and purchase a copy here https://www.sunburypress.com/products/holliday

 

And find out more about the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation here https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/

 

 

Join us next week for a showcase selected by Thomas Nixon

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

 

Sep 12, 202310:57
Writing tips from novelist Priscilla Morris: Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing tips from novelist Priscilla Morris: Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

Priscilla is a British author and teacher of creative writing who lives between Ireland and Spain. Born to a Yugoslav mother and English father, she was 19 when war broke out in her mother’s country. She wrote her Sarajevo-set debut novel Black Butterflies (Duckworth, 2022) to understand the events that turned many of her relatives into refugees. Priscilla is one of six authors shortlisted for the annual £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for Best Published Novel. The prize is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English, and seeks to “support and celebrate adventure fiction in all its forms”. The shortlist is chosen by a team of librarians and library staff from across the UK.

 

Black Butterflies was also shortlisted for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction and several other notable prizes. 

 

Thank you to Priscilla Morris for this insight into the writing of her novel Black Butterflies.  In the show notes we’ll share  some links so you can find out more about the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, purchase a copy of Black Butterflies and find a clickable link to Priscilla’s website priscillamorris.org, and to her Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/priscillamorriswriter/

 

 

Find out more about the Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation via their website here

https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Sep 05, 202312:11
An interview with playwright and actress Gill Adams: Write On! Audio Weekly

An interview with playwright and actress Gill Adams: Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

This month's interview is with playwright, actor, comedian and scriptwriter Gill Adams.  In a highly successful career Gill has had numerous stage and radio plays produced.  She has been writer in residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and at the University of Hull and won a Fringe First Award.  For television Gill has written for Emmerdale and Doctors and appeared in the mockumentary, Meet the Richardsons’, in which she plays the mother of her real-life daughter, the comedian Lucy Beaumont.

The interviewer is Lucy Kaufman who was alongside Write on editor Madeleine White


You can hear more on the process of writing from Gill via this interview from Full Flava TV on YouTube https://youtu.be/j9u6_dTGQR4

 

Find out more about Gill by visiting her IMDB page here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1171478/

 And on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/gill-adams-b647261b/

 

 We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

  

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Aug 22, 202338:09
Pen-to-Print Competition Winners Showcase : Write On! Audio Weekly

Pen-to-Print Competition Winners Showcase : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

In this special Showcase edition, we feature work by the winners of three Pen to Print writing competitions.  The winners were announced at our awards evening in July with audio recordings made to share with the audience on the evening.

 

The first piece is the winning poem which is by Julie Dexter , called Sakura it’s read by Sally Walker Taylor.

 

Our short story prize was won by Linda Hibbin with a story called ‘Treading On Freckled, Speckled Eggshells’. The reader is Sally Walker Taylor

 

The final piece is a short extract of the winning entry in our audio play competition.  The winning script is called Ark and it’s by Stephanie Weston.

 

This extract features the voices of Charlie Richards, Chris Gregory, Emily Inkpen and first, Write On! Audio presenter Tiffany Clare. 

 

You’ll be able to hear the full production of Ark by Stephanie Weston in an upcoming edition of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast and here on Write On Audio.

 

Our next podcast features an interview with Gill Adams

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory.

Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 


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Aug 15, 202309:19
A Listener Contribution from poet Brian Bilston: Write On! Audio Weekly
Aug 08, 202313:09
Writing tips from Chris Gregory : Write On! Audio Weekly
Aug 01, 202313:55
An interview with Brian Bilston : Write On! Audio Weekly

An interview with Brian Bilston : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

Our July interview is with poet and novelist Brian Bilston.  Brian has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate. He won the 2015 Great British Write Off poetry prize for a poem disguised in a Venn diagram. His first published work, ‘You Took The Last Bus Home’ was published by Unbound and shortlisted for the Cost First Novel Award.  His novel ‘Diary Of A Somebody’ was published to much critical acclaim in 2020.

 

The interviewer is Eithne Cullen, with some input from Write On! Editor Madeleine White.

 

Thank you to Brian Bilston for being the subject of this month's interview.  If you've enjoyed this chat with Brian ,we'll be sharing some of his poetry in our August listener contribution.   You can find out more about Brian by visiting his website at https://brianbilston.com/

And followBrian on twitter here https://twitter.com/brian_bilston

 

Join us next week for writing tips from our producer Chris Gregory

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Jul 25, 202329:33
A Showcase Selected by Dr Afsana Elanko : Write On Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Dr Afsana Elanko : Write On Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

Our July showcase is selected by Dr Afsana Elanko

 

Artist and writer Dr Afsana Elanko is also an award-winning doctor, with a special interest in oncology, she is an educationalist, leader and innovator. Part of the Write On! team for the last couple of years, she combines a passion for promoting advances in medicine with a love of the arts.  Other than writing for Write On! Dr Afsana’s work has appeared in the Guardian as well as other main stream publications and numerous medical journals.

 

Afsana’s selections for this showcase are:

 

The Storm Blew by Akshitha Ramalingham

Posthumous Literary Surprise by Sebastian Elanko

Our Match – a collaborative piece by the group A4A at Aphasia Reconnect

A Tree Falls in a Silent Forest by John Holmes

Guilty Pleasures by Mary Walsh

 

The readers are Sally Walker-Taylor and Chris Gregory

 

If you’d like to find out more about Aphasia Reconnect you can visit their website at https://aphasiareconnect.org/

And follow the group on twitter https://twitter.com/Aphasiareconne1

And Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aphasiareconnect/

 

You can read more about Afsana Elanko’s  showcase selections here https://pentoprint.org/writeon-showcase/

 

 

Join us next week for an interview with poet Brian Bilston.

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

Jul 18, 202315:45
Gertcha Cowson : A Poet's Tit-for-Tat : A Write On! Audio Listener Contribution
Jul 11, 202314:00
Writing tips from poet Mary Walsh : Write On Audio Weekly

Writing tips from poet Mary Walsh : Write On Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

Our July writing tips are from poet and write on contributor Mary Walsh.  Mary's poems have been published in collections such as The Great British Write Off, and a Gardening Anthology for Forward Press as well as being featured in the Royal Society of Literature newspaper.  

 

You can find out more about Mary by reading her Pen to Print Writer of the Month article here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-mary-walsh/

 

And follow her on Twitter here https://twitter.com/MaryWal11526731

 

 

Join us next week for a listener contribution from poet Gertcha Cowson.

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast do get in touch. Please submit to:

 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England


Jul 04, 202310:06
An Interview with Sita Brahmachari : Write On! Audio Weekly

An Interview with Sita Brahmachari : Write On! Audio Weekly

Our June interview is with children and young adults author Sita Brahmachari .

Sita's debut novel ‘Artichoke Hearts’ won the Waterstones's Children's Book Prize and her latest novel ‘When Shadows Fall’ was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Award. 

 

The interviewer was Amber Hall who was alongside Write On! Editor Madeleine White

 

You can find out much more about Sita and order her books by visiting her website

 

https://www.sitabrahmachari.com/

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition is presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England


Jun 27, 202335:10
A Showcase Selected by Mirabel Lavelle : Write On! Audio Weekly
Jun 20, 202309:37
Writing Tips from Helen Aitchison : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing Tips from Helen Aitchison : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print.  

 

In this week’s podcast we bring you writing tips from Helen Aitchison.  Hailing from the north-east of England, Helen combines writing with her work as the director of a Community Interest Company, ‘Write On The Tyne,’ which provides creative writing courses and mentoring with a focus on engaging marginalised people in the area.   Helen also teaches for her local council, is a freelance writer for Story Terrace and an on-line journalist for Radio Gateshead.

 

Find out more about Helen by visiting her website: https://helenaitchisonwrites.wordpress.com/

 

And you can follow Helen on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/aitchisonwrites

 

Helen is a director of Write On The Tyne and you can find out more about this organisation here: https://writeonthetyne.com/

 

 

 

Join us next week for a Showcase selected by Write On’s Mirabel Lavelle.

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. You can submit to: 

 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

  

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

 

 


Jun 13, 202321:12
Hay Festival Special Edition : Write On! Audio Weekly

Hay Festival Special Edition : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print.  

 

In this special edition of the podcast we are at the Hay Festival where we hosted a live panel discussion on co-creation.  The panel members are Ian Ayris, Eithne Cullen and Mirabel Lavelle and the panel chair is Write On! Editor, Madeleine White.

 

Thank you to the Hay Festival for allowing us to host this panel and for recording the session for us.

 

Our panel members were

 

Ian Ayris:  https://www.ianayris.org/ , https://twitter.com/ianayris                                     

Eithne Cullen:                                            https://twitter.com/CullenEithne

Mirabel Lavelle:                                        https://twitter.com/Mirabel20287342

And the chair was Madeleine White:   https://twitter.com/madeleinefwhite

 


Join us next week for writing tips from author and teacher Helen Aitchison.

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions, so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast, please get in touch. You can submit to: 

 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

 Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.


Jun 06, 202301:03:29
An interview with Julie Finch : Chief Executive of the Hay Festival : Write On! Audio

An interview with Julie Finch : Chief Executive of the Hay Festival : Write On! Audio

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

This month’s interview is with Julie Finch, Chief Executive Officer of the Hay Festival.  Hay is one of the world’s biggest annual literary and book festivals taking place at Hay-on-Wye in Wales.  With a wide range of events and guests from the world of books and writing, it is an important annual touchstone for the worlds of publishing and literature. 

 

Find out all about the 2023 Hay Festival by visiting the festival website here: www.hayfestival.com/

 

And watch out for more Write On! content from the festival in the coming weeks.

 

The interviewer was Juneha Chowdhury who was alongside Write On! Editor, Madeleine White.

 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions, so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast, do get in touch. Please submit to: pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is made using public funding from Arts Council England.


May 23, 202332:42
A Showcase selected by Amelia Cave and Haley Pitman of Sunderland University : Write On! Audio Weekly
May 16, 202308:03
A Listener Contribution from novelist Pamela R Haynes : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from novelist Pamela R Haynes : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print

 

This month’s Listener Contribution is from novelist Pamela R Haynes and is an extract from her novel “Loving The Brothers.”  Pamela has many years of experience working in the criminal justice system and, as part of this role, she works as a university lecturer. Pamela also fosters her writing career which has also produced the second part of her series, “Loving The Sisters.”

 

You can purchase the novel from Amazon here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Loving-Brothers-Pamela-R-Haynes/dp/1999783425 and from other retailers.

 You can follow Pamela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PamPamHaynes

And on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovingtheauthor/

 

Join us next week for a Showcase selected and introduced by Amelia Cave and Haley Pittman, two students from the University of Sunderland

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. You can submit to:  https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.


This podcast is made using public funding from Arts Council England

 


May 09, 202319:40
Advice to Writers from Alex Whitten : Write On! Audio Weekly

Advice to Writers from Alex Whitten : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print.  

 In this edition we bring you writing tips from writing coach, author and podcaster Alexa Whitten.  Alexa has been coaching authors for ten years and her business, The Book Refinery, has worked with hundreds of authors to get their books out of their heads and into print. 

 

 Alexa’s writing tips are introduced by Write On! Editor Madeleine White.  

 

You can find out more about Alexa Whitten by visiting her Book Refinery page here https://www.thebookrefinery.com/author/alexa/ 

And you can follow Alexa on Twitter here https://twitter.com/yourbookcoach 

 

Join us next week for a Listener Contribution from author Pamela Haynes. 

  

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast , do get in touch by submitting to:   https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/  

  

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.  

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

May 02, 202313:15
An Interview with John O'Farrell : Write On! Audio Weekly

An Interview with John O'Farrell : Write On! Audio Weekly

Apr 25, 202340:07
A Showcase Selected by Claire Buckle: Write On! Audio Weekly

A Showcase Selected by Claire Buckle: Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print 

 

In this edition we have a showcase selected by Claire Buckle. Claire’s short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, including Woman’s Weekly, My Weekly and The People’s Friend. They have also been published in small press journals such as Scribble and in anthologies, including Spread the Word’s City of Stories. After completing a course of Pen to Print playwriting workshops, she wrote a ten-minute play, which was performed at Barking’s Broadway Theatre as part of a competition and, to her delight, was awarded first place in an audience vote.

 

You can read more about Claire here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-claire-buckle/

You can follow Claire on twitter here. https://twitter.com/clairebuckle

 

The pieces featured in this showcase are 

 

‘A Season Of Both Night And Day’ by Palak Tewary

‘Two Faced’ by Donna McCabe

‘Truth’ by Jan Clarke 

‘Two Stews Apart’ by Gloria Maloney

‘Bookmark’ by Claire Buckle 

‘Sunset On Sheringham Beach’ by Patsy Middleton

‘The First Signs of Spring’

 

The readers are Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory

 

Join us next week for an interview with writer and political activist John O’Farrell

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On!Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

 

This podcast is supported using public funding by Arts Council England

Apr 18, 202312:11
Poems from Eithne Cullen : A Write On! Audio Listener Contribution

Poems from Eithne Cullen : A Write On! Audio Listener Contribution

Our listener contribution this month is from Write On’s Eithne Cullen  

 

Eithne Cullen was born in Dublin and moved to London when she was six. She has had poems published in anthologies and magazines. She has published two novels: The Ogress of Reading and Never not in my Thoughts and a volume of short stories called Pencils and other Stories. She has had some success as a poet, was Hysteria Poet in residence in 2020 and published a pamphlet in 2021, called The Smell of Dust and was crowned Poet Laureate of Plumstead in 2022. She’s recently written some poetry which was used in the creation of a musical piece, A Better World is Possible. 


Eithne is a page editor for Write On! Magazine’s Thoughtful Tuesday page. She’s had stories, poems, interviews and articles in the magazine. She’s also delivered creative writing classes online for Pen to Print.  She lives with her husband in East London. She is unashamedly proud of her three grown up children and endeavours to embarrass them as often as she can. 

Find out more about Eithne and read some of her work by visiting her Write On! Writer of the Month page here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-eithne-cullen/ 

 You can follow Eithne on twitter here https://twitter.com/eithne_cullen 

And on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/eithnecullen57/ 

 

 Join us next week for a showcase selected and introduced by Claire Buckle 

 

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:   https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

 

Apr 11, 202314:07
Writing Tips with Abíọ́dún Abdul : Write On! Audio Weekly

Writing Tips with Abíọ́dún Abdul : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print  

 

Our April writing tips are from Abíọ́dún ‘Abbey’ Abdul Abbey is a Yorùbá-Nigerian writer and UNESCO Cities of Literature Global Poetry Slam Champion 2022. Fascinated by how grammar could be bent to facilitate new meaning and enhance creative expression, she has worked for several years in higher education as an English Language Lecturer & Assessor across the globe. Her expressive writing includes life essays and autoethnographical memoir-polemics encompassing her schooling across Africa, Europe and Asia. She also writes Yorùbá-centred short stories and poetry on social justice and topics celebrating our common humanity. Her work has been published in anthologies, she presents at academic conferences, and performs at literary festivals and events

  

You can read more about Abbey and sample some of her writing here  https://www.yorubayonder.com/p/home.html 

You can follow Abbey on twitter here  https://twitter.com/Abiodun_Abdul01 

 

Join us next week for a listener contribution from poet, novelist, teacher and Write On! Thoughtful Tuesday Editor Eithne Cullen  


We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: 

 https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ 

 

 Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print. 

 

Apr 04, 202312:11
An interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie : Write On! Audio Weekly

An interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie : Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   

 

In this edition of Write On! Audio we have an interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie 

 Lisa was born and grew up in Nottingham before becoming an academic at Durham University.  She is a working class writer and during the pandemic she co-founded the Working Class Collective, a group of writers and artists setting out to tell stories about the lives of working class people during the Covid lockdowns.  She is the author of “The Estate we’re in : how working class people became the problem”    


Content warning : Please note that there is some swearing in this interview. 

 

The interviewer is Amber Hall and parts of this interview originally ran as part of Amber’s edition about working class writers on the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast (Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/12124929) 

 

You can find out more about Lisa and her work by visiting her website here https://lisamckenzie1968.wixsite.com/website 

You can follow her on twitter here https://twitter.com/redrumlisa 

 

Find out more about The Working Class Collective here https://www.workingclasscollective.co.uk/ 

And follow the collective on twitter here https://twitter.com/WorkingClassCol 

 

Join us next week for writing tips from poet and teacher Abiodun Abdul. 

  

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  

  

Mar 28, 202328:57