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Our listener contribution this month comes from Gloria Maloney. Gloria is a poet and prose writer who finds her inspiration during walks through the countryside. She was honoured with first prize in the Pen to Print Poetry competition in 2021 and served as a judge the following year. Her work has been featured in various online and print magazines, including The London Garden Society, Autumn Voices, and Write On!.

Gloria’s poetry is also included in several anthologies, such as the eBook ‘Lamb Spectator’ by Northumberland Library (2023) and ‘Out of Excuses’ by Quaker Arts (2023). Gloria's work was Highly Commended in the RSPB's Hengistbury Head Writing Competition in 2021.

The poems in this podcast are written and performed by Gloria Maloney. You can read an interview with Gloria and find out more about her work here https://pentoprint.org/write-on-interviews-writer-gloria-maloney/

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

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This month's poem of the month is from Danny Baxter - a poet and artist from Barking and Dagenham who has appeared on this podcast several times. Being myself is read by Chris Gregory.

You can follow Danny on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/dan_lbbd/ and read about his art here https://pentoprint.org/showcase-of-art/⁠

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

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print In this edition we revisit an interview with novelist and audio drama writer Cailean Steed. Cailean’s debut novel “Home” is published by Bloomsbury and has received considerable critical acclaim since publication. In this interview, recorded on the day of Home’s launch Cailean talks about inspiration, research and balancing writing with the rest of their life.

Excerpts from the audio book of "Home" are read by Paula Masterson

Find out more about Cailean by following their twitter account here https://x.com/CaileanSteed

And visit their website here https://www.caileansteed.com/

You can order a copy of Cailean’s novel “Home” by searching for it on all good online book retailers.

You can listen to all episodes of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730

Find out more about Alternative Stories here https://alternativestories.com/

And follow them on X here https://x.com/StoriesAltAnd Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/

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

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print In the second of our “Write On! Audio and Friends” features we’re revisiting an interview with novelist and short story writer Zoe Gilbert. The winner of the 2014 Costa short story award, Zoe has since published two acclaimed novels – Folk (2018) and Mischief Acts (2022).

In this interview, originally part of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast, Zoe talks about the art of storytelling and the ways in which she weaves influences from folklore and fantasy into her work.

The interviewer is Chris Gregory and excerpts are read by Sally Walker Taylor and Tiffany Clare

You can find out more about Zoe Gilbert and her work by visiting her website here http://zoegilbert.com/

You can follow Zoe on X, formerly twitter here https://x.com/mindandlanguage

You can listen to all episodes of the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730

Find out more about Alternative Stories here https://alternativestories.com/

And follow them on X here https://x.com/StoriesAltAnd Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/stories.alt/

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

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Our listener contribution this month is from poet and author Sebastian Elanko.

Sebastian Elanko is a poet, author and writer who regularly writes in two different languages. He has published work in the English and Tamil languages, including in anthologies, magazines and has had work in displayed in exhibitions. His work is currently being exhibited at the museum in London, which explores the theme of overcoming adversity by going back to the roots of our heritage. Sebastian has taught writing classes to encourage and support others and is a regularwriter for the Write On magazine.

You can read more from Sebastian Elanko in this page from pen to Print

https://pentoprint.org/tag/sebastian-elanko/

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear themon 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 producedby 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

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This month's poem of the month is from Nicole Piscopo - a young Maltese poet who we featured on the podcast back in 2022. Nicole Piscopo is reading her poem "Wrote a Love Letter- Turned it into an Airplane"

You can find Nicole on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/maybe_its_fate_poetry/

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear themon 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 producedby 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

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 are from Write On’s Eithne Cullen and Mary Walsh. Eithne and Mary are in conversation about the skills and inspiration writers can receive from attending writing courses.

Find out more about Pen to Print’s range of writing courses by visiting the events page of the Pen to Print website here https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

Find out more about Eithne Cullen by following her on X, formerly twitter here https://twitter.com/eithne_cullen

And read Mary Walsh’s Writer of the Month feature from Write On! Here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-mary-walsh/

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

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Our interview this month is with British / Irish writer and broadcaster Kit De Waal. Born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, she initially pursued a career in law working alongside foster carers and the social care sector before turning to writing and broadcasting. Her debut novel ‘My Name Is Leon’ was shortlisted for the Costa Book award. Her short fiction has been nominated for - and won - numerous prizes. Soon after the publication of ‘My Name Is Leon’ she began working on The Kit De Waal Creative Writing Scholarship which provides a fully funded place for a disadvantaged writer on the creative writing MA course at Birkbeck College in London

The interviewer is Iole Dexter who was alongside Write On!’s editor Madeleine White

If you’d like to find out more about Kit De Waal and her writing you can visit her website here https://www.kitdewaal.com/

To read Iole Dexter’s blog go here https://iolewrites.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

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

Our April Showcase is selected and introduced by Hannah Rooney – a student in the second year of her creative writing course at the University of Sunderland. As Hannah explains, the overarching theme of this Showcase is one of optimism. The readers in this showcase are Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory.

Hannah’s selections are as follows:

Anxious Mind by Gloria Maloney

Parahumanity (excerpt) by Hannah Hoare

Vitalite Nights (excerpt) by Kristine Allen

Heckler by Hannah Rooney

The Gift by Thomas Dale

Thank you to Hannah Rooney from the University of Sunderland for selecting and introducing this showcase.

If you’d like to find out more about the Creative Writing course at the University of Sunderland please follow the link below

https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/english/undergraduate-english/

And to follow Hannah Rooney on Instagram go to https://www.instagram.com/hannahrooney.x/

Hannah referenced publishers and creative writing organisation, Write-On-The-Tyne, run by Helen Aitchison who has also appeared on this podcast. To find out more go to www.writeonthetyne.com

The final selection in the showcase “ The Gift” by Thomas Dale was published in the Write on The Tyne Recovery Voices anthology – find out more and buy a copy here http://www.recoveryconnections.org.uk/

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

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In this edition we are sharing another new feature, “Poem of the Month” in which we will share some of the poetry we've featured on this podcast over the last few years.

This month's poem is "Where is Home?" by Diya Padiya. It is read by Sally Walker Taylor….

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear themon 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 producedby 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

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

In this new Write On! Audio feature we'll share episodes of other writing podcasts that our listeners may enjoy. First, we're sharing an episode of The Writers Gym, a weekly show about the process and practice of writing featuring writer and writing coach Dr Rachel Knightley alongside novelist and audio drama writer Emily Inkpen. The Writers Gym is presented by Write On Audio's producer Chris Gregory. In the edition you're about to hear the team discuss the art of giving feedback to your fellow writers and ways in which you can ask for feedback on your own work.

Thank you to The Writers Gym podcast for allowing us to share this episode. The voices you heard were Chris Gregory, Emily Inkpen and Dr Rachel Knightley. You can listen to more episodes and subscribe to the podcast by searching for The Writers Gym in your favourite podcast app or clicking on the link below

https://drrachelknightley.podbean.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

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

Our March interview is with Isabelle Kenyon, the founder and owner of the award-winning Fly-On-The-Wall Press. As well as being a published author and poet, Isabelle is an expert on book editing, marketing and promotion. Isabelle is in conversation with Pen to Print’s 2023 Poetry Award winner Julie Dexter and Write On! Editor, Madeleine White.

Find out more about Isabelle’s editing and writing work, as well as her new novel ‘The Dark Within Them,’ in Julie’s digital write up of the interview: https://pentoprint.org/write-on-interviews/

You can connect with Isabelle, by following her on X, formerly twitter here https://twitter.com/kenyon_isabelle

And follow Fly On The Wall Press here https://twitter.com/fly_press

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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Our showcase this month is selected by Jilly Henderson Long. Jilly is a published author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and lives in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. When not writing, Jilly enjoys photography and of course, reading.

The pieces featured in this showcase are

Alice Ayres by Greg Pidgeon
Baby by Tavinder New
A Place Between by May L Walsh
Who Knows” by Jilly Henderson Long

The readers are Chris Gregory and Tiffany Clare

The music used in this showcase was composed and recorded by Chris Gregory

Find out more about Jilly Henderson Long by following her on X, formerly Twitter https://twitter.com/Jilly66408011

Find out more about Tiffany Clare and her acting and voice work by visiting her website here https://www.voicebytiffany.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

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Our March listener contribution comes from Whitney Love. Whitney Love is a wife, mother and known for her love of animals. The great outdoors is a space where she finds a lot of inspiration. Whitney always dreamed of becoming an author from a very young age, keen to story-tell on topics that would challenge her readers to see varying degrees of life and enable them to imagine what that could potentially mean for someone else. Her dream of writing has now come to life with the publication of her debut novel "She Set Him Up" which was published in January this year. For this week’s podcast we have the first chapter of the book read by Whitney herself.

You can buy a copy of Whitney’s book direct from the publisher, Troubador, here https://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/she-set-him-up

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

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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

Our February Interview is with Sharmaine Lovegrove. Sharmaine is the co-founder, managing director and publisher of Dialogue, a division of Hachette UK. She was the recipient of the Future Book Publishing Person of the year in 2018 and has also worked in television, PR, as a literary editor and bookshop owner. She is founding editor of the Black Writer’s Guild.

The interviewer is Iole Dexter who was alongside Write On! Editor, Madeleine White

Thank you to Sharmaine Lovegrove for being the subject of this months’ interview. You can find out more about Sharmaine and her work by following her on X, formerly Twitter https://twitter.om/sharlovegrove

And find out more about Dialogue Books which Sharmaine runs here https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/

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/

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

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

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

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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

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This month's interview is with novelist Frances Hardinge

Frances Hardinge came to widespread publication attention when her 2015 novel, The Lie Tree won the Costa Book Award. She has published nine novels and numerous short stories. As well as the Costa award she has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel for Cuckoo Song. We caught up with Frances for this month’s interview.

The interviewer is Claire Buss.

You can find out more about Frances Hardinge by visiting her website http://www.franceshardinge.com/

And follow her on X, formerly Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesHardinge

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

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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

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This week we’re sharing the winning entry in the 2023 Pen toPrint 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 ofapproximately half an hour. You'll find a full set of regulations andmore 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 ArtsCouncil England

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

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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 Sanchofrom 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:

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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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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

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With the holiday season approaching, our listener contribution for December is the annual festive poem recorded by members of the Write On! team.

For our recording this year we have chosen Christmas at Melrose by Leslie Pinckney Hill

The poem was performed by Eithne Cullen, Lena Smith, Lisa Roullier, Mohamed Rahman, Madeleine White, Claire Buss, Julie Dexter, Palak Tewary, Afsana Elanko, Sebastian Elanko, Rachel Umoh, Mirabel Lavelle, Amber Hall , Chris Gregory , E.M. Blake, Liliana Hristova, Danny Baxter and Farzana Hakim.

The recordings were mixed and edited by Palak Tewary and you can hear more from Palak next week as she selects our December showcase.

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/

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Our writing tips for December come from writers Christine Penhall and Lizzie Chantree talking about the benefits of ‘buddy writing’

Chris and Lizzie both write uplifting romantic fiction and they formed a buddy-writing group in Essex to help fellow writers to inspire each other and avoid the feeling of isolation that many writers experience. In these tips they share the benefits of this approach to writing and how it can work for writers at all stages of their writing journey.

Find out more about Chris Penhall and her work by visiting her website here https://www.chrispenhall.co.uk/

And Follow Chris on X (formerly Twitter) here https://twitter.com/ChrisPenhall

Visit Lizzie Chantree’s website here https://lizziechantree.com/

And follow her on X here https://twitter.com/Lizzie_Chantree

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/

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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

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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:

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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

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Our November writing tips are from Merle R Saferstein An educator, speaker, author and a pioneer in the field of legacy journaling, Merle has been journaling for 48 years and has amassed a huge archive of journals over this time. Merle spent many years working with holocaust survivors helping them to leave their legacy through journaling. Her short story collection Room 732 pays homage to the historic Hollywood Beach Hotel. Merle lives in Miami, Florida.

If you’d like to find out more about Merle Saferstein you can connect with her via the following links

Facebook: facebook.com/merle.saferstein

Instagram: instagram.com/merles1212

X (Formerly Twitter): twitter.com/safer1212
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/merle-saferstein-43b97739

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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:

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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

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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 bothyoung 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 withCommunity 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 Goodreadspage 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/

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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:

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Our interview this month is with novelist Lavie Tidhar. Working across several genres including science fiction and fantasy, Tidhar won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for his novel “Osama” and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for “A Man Lies Dreaming.” Born in Israel, he has lived in the UK and South Africa.

The interviewer is Palak Tewary who was alongside Write On! Editor Madeleine White.

You can find out more about Lavie Tidhar and find links to order his books by visiting his website here https://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/

And follow him on X (formerly twitter) here https://twitter.com/lavietidhar

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:

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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/

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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

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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

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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 writtenfor 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:

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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:

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If you enjoyed our July interview with poet and novelist Brian Bilston here’s a chance to listen to Brian perform some of his poems. 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. ‘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.

If you've enjoyed listening to these poems, You can find out more about Brian Bilston by visiting his website at https://brianbilston.com/

And follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/brian_bilston

Our next podcast features a showcase of Pen to Print competition winners.

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:

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Our August writing tips come from our producer Chris Gregory. As well as producing the Write On! Audio podcast each week, Chris runs the spoken word production company Alternative Stories which makes drama, poetry and fiction podcasts. As some listeners may be aware, Chris also teaches various aspects of writing for audio at universities and to writing groups including Pen to Print and London Lit Lab. Here's Chris with some tips on improving your dialogue skills by having a go at writing audio drama!

Thank you for listening to these writing tips. If you'd like to learn more about Chris and his work you can visit his website https://alternativestories.com/

Next week we'll bring you a listener contribution from 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:

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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/

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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.

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Our July listener contribution is by poet Gertcha Cowson. Gertcha, also known as Gertcha the Disabled Poet, is a working-class writer whose work deals with topics such as mental health, his own disabilities, the environment and social issues. In his own words, his work: “Belongs to no single genre, yet has a hand in many.”

Gertcha’s piece in this podcast is called ‘A Poet’s Tit-For-Tat’ and it features the poem ‘Naked Trees Against A Cotton Wool Sky’

You can find out more about Gertcha by reading his Pen to Print Writer of the Month here:

https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-gertcha-cowson/

You can order Gertcha’s book, ‘Rocks in a Spin Dryer’ here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rocks-Spin-Dryer-Gertcha-Cowson/dp/1803693207

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:

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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. She runs the poetry stanza ‘Barking Foxes’ which is affiliated to the Poetry Society.

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.

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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/

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In this edition we share a showcase selected by Write On’s Mirabel Lavelle. Originally from Malta, but now living in the north east of England, Mirabel is a writer, teacher and mentor. This is her second Write On! Showcase.

Mirabel’s selections for this Showcase were:

‘Sight and Sound’ by June Gowland

‘Island Nation’ by Thomas Nixon

‘Shatterproof’ by Haley Pittman

‘Our Future’ by Nicole Piscopo

The readers were Sally Walker-Taylor and Chris Gregory

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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.

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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:

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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.

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Our May showcase is selected by Amelia Cave and Haley Pittman, creative writing students from the University of Sunderland introduced to us by Write On!’s Mirabelle Lavelle.

The pieces selected for the showcase were as follows

‘Saying Farewell’ by Jess Webb

‘The Questioner’ by Ange Wilson

‘American Cement’ by Katelyn Bowers

‘Nature Strikes Back’ by Priyanka Nawathe

The readers were Haley Pittman and Sally Walker-Taylor

You can read more about the Creative Writing programme at the University of Sunderland of which Amelia and Haley are part here

https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/english/undergraduate-english/

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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

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Loving The Brothers

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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.

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In this edition we have an interview with writer and political activist John O’Farrell. John has written for "Spitting Image" and "HaveI Got News For You?" as well as authoring several successful novels and memoirs. He wrote the screenplay for the film "ChickenRun" and the musicals "Something Rotten" and "Mrs Doubtfire". John stood for parliament as the Labour Partycandidate in the “no hope” seat of Maidenhead at the 2001 general election.

The interviewer is Lucy Kaufman.

You can read more about John O’Farrell and buy his books by visiting his Amazonpage here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-OFarrell/e/B001HORTY8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

You can follow John on Twitter here https://twitter.com/mrjohnofarrell

Join us next week for writing tips from Hay Festival Chair Caroline Michel.

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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.

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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’ by Mary Walsh

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:

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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

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Our March 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

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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.

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In this edition of Write On! Audio we have an interview with Palak Tewary

Palak Tewary is a management and finance professional who combines her business life with a second career as an avid and skilled writer. As a regular contributor to Write On! she is a popular and valued member of the Pen to Print team. In our interview Palak discusses her recent nomination as one of the top 50 women in accounting and her creative work as a poet and writer.

The interviewer is Write On! Deputy Editor Claire Buss who spoke to Palak alongside Write On! Editor Madeleine White

You can find out more about Palak and read some of her work by visiting her website at https://palaktewary.com

You can follow Palak on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/palaktewary/

And read Palak’s Writer of the month article from Write On! here : https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-palak-tewary/

Join us next week for an interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie, founder of the Working Class Collective.

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/

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Our listener contribution for March is from Lucy Kaufman. Lucy is a playwright and novelist. She has had over 30 of her plays produced at theatres around the UK garnering many glowing reviews from critics and audiences. She teaches play writing and screen writing for Pen to Print. Lucy has written and performed an original monologue “The Black Coat” which we’re sharing with you in this podcast.

Music, soundscape and additional voices are by Chris Gregory.

You can read more about Lucy Kaufman by visiting her website here https://lucykaufman.wordpress.com

You can follow Lucy on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/lucykaufman_

Join us next week for an interview with Write On’s Palak Tewary.

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Our March writing tips are from 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

Join us next week for a Listener Contribution from novelist, playwright and Write On contributor, Lucy Kaufman

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Our February interview is with novelist and audio drama writer Cailean Steed. Cailean’s debut novel “Home” was published by Raven Bloomsbury in January and their audio drama “Real Boy” won the 2021 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition. The interviewer is Chris Gregory and this interview was originally broadcast on the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast in the week of publication.

You can find out more about Cailean and purchase a copy of “Home” by visiting their website here https://www.caileansteed.com/

You can follow Cailean on twitter here https://twitter.com/CaileanSteed

And you can listen to Cailean’s prize winning audio drama “Real Boy” here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/9690521-real-boy-an-audio-drama

Join us next week for writing tips from Claire Buckle

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

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This month's showcase is selected and introduced by Zara Relphman. Zara is a writer of blogs, short fiction and non-fiction. She is a member of the Write On! editorial team and is currently studying creative and professional writing at Christ Church University in Canterbury.

The pieces you can hear in the showcase are

“And I cried” by Patsy Middleton
“Pound Hugs” by Amber Hall
“Petals” by Akshitha Ramalingam all read by Sally Walker Taylor
“Where are you from?” by Hong Wei read by Chris Gregory

Follow Zara Relphman’s blog here https://medium.com/@zlrelphmanYou can also follow Zara on social media here https://twitter.com/zlrelphmanhttps://www.instagram.com/zlrelphman/

Join us next week for an interview with novelist and audio drama writer Cailean Steed.

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For our February Listener Contribution, which is being published on Saint Valentine’s Day, novelist and Write On! contributor Farzana Hakim explores love stories featuring diverse characters including the story at the heart of her novel “Sweethearts of Ilford Lane”.

You can find out more about Farzana and follow her Thursday Connectors page here

https://pentoprint.org/Thursday-connectors/

You can also follow Farzana on social media here

https://twitter.com/farzanahakim

https://www.instagram.com/farzanahakimauthor

Join us next week for a showcase selected by writer and Write On! team member Zara Relphman

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Our writing tips for February are from Historical Fiction and Romance author Jean Fullerton.

Known as "The Queen of the East End Saga", Jean's novels reflect life in the East End through the years including the "Ration Book" series set during the second world war. Jean's own life in east London is described in her memoir "A Child of the East End."

You can find out more about Jean Fullerton and purchase her books by visiting her website here http://jeanfullerton.com/

You can follow Jean on Twitter here https://twitter.com/JeanFullerton

Join us next week for a listener contribution from novelist and Write On! contributor Farzana Hakim

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In this bonus edition we are sharing the audio drama Postcards From Another World by Frasier Armitage which was the winner of the 2022 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition

In Postcards from Another World by Frasier Armitage you heard
Sarah Golding as Lyra
Marie-Claire Wood as Neeva
Warren Graham as Zabo
Emily Inkpen as the computer
Rhiannon Armitage as the Lunasetti spaceport announcer
Chris Gregory as Privik.

Production, sound design and editing were by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories
The original score was composed and performed by Chris Gregory
Sound effects were from Freesound.org
Casting advice, actor coaching and beta listening were by Frasier Armitage.

You can find out more about Frasier Armitage and his work by visiting his website here https://frasierarmitage.com/
You can follow Frasier on twitter here https://twitter.com/FrasierArmitage
And Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/frasierarmitage/

The script for Postcards from Another World by Frasier Armitage was the winner of the 2022 Pen to Print audio play competition. The 2023 competition is open for entries now. We are looking for scripts of around half an hour (4- 5000 words) and the competition is open to UK residents only. You have until 31st March to submit your entires and you can find out more and enter the competition here
https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/competitions-2023/

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Our January interview is with novelist, essayist, podcaster, teacher and short story writer Jessica Andrews.Jessica's debut novel Saltwater was published by Sceptre in 2019 and won the Portico Prize in 2020. Her second novel Milk Teeth was published last year. Jessica is a contributing editor at Elle Magazine and she writes for The Guardian and for BBC Radio 4 . She teaches creative writing at City University London and co-presents the literary podcast Tender Buttons.

The interviewer is Pen to Print team member and Write On! Book Challenger, Rebecca Seaton and she was speaking to Jessica alongside Write On! editor Madeleine White

Thank you to Jessica Andrews for being our first interview subject of 2023. You can find out more about Jessica and her work by visiting her website at http://www.jessica-andrews.com/

And you can listen to the podcast that Jessica co-hosts, Tender Buttons here https://anchor.fm/tender-buttons

Find out more about our interviewer Rebecca Seaton here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-rebecca-seaton/

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

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Today’s showcase is selected by historical novelist, Dan Cross. Dan's first novel "Caesar of Mercenaries" was shortlisted for the 2018 Wilbur Smith adventure Writing Award and his second, "The Lioness of the Flame" was shortlisted for the same award in 2020.

You can find out more about Dan by visiting his website https://www.dan-cross.com/ where you’ll find more about his writing, his author coaching work as The Open Book Editor and find links to his social media accounts.

The pieces you heard were

· "Weeds Unwilled" by Patsy Middleton read by Sally Walker-Taylor

· “The Circle of Grief” by Thomas Nixon read by Chris Gregory

· “Aberfan Angels” by Tammy Griffiths Palmer read by Sally Walker-Taylor

· “The Homecoming” by Raymond Miles read by Chris Gregory

· "Sonnet Number 1 of the year 2022" by Mary Walsh read by Sally Walker-Taylor

If you have been affected by any of the issues Dan discussed in this podcast the link below has links to organisations in the UK that can help with cost of living support along with other support organisations: https://pentoprint.org/about/advice-support/

Join us next week for an interview with novelist Jessica Andrews

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:

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In this edition we once again feature novelist Louis de Bernières. If you enjoyed our interview with Louis back in September you 'll recall that he talked about the importance of music in his life. With this in mind we asked Louis if he would be willing to share some of his songs with us and the podcast you're about to hear features three songs and some thoughts from Louis on the song writing process

The songs you can hear in this podcast are

River Water, Your Little Paradise and Foxes in the Park all written and performed by Louis de Bernières

You can find out more about Louis’s writing and music and buy a copy of his latest album “Dispatches” via his website

https://www.louisdebernieresofficial.com/

The songs in todays podcast were recorded by David Booth at Louis’s home and mixed at his studio The Recording Booth in Framlingham, Suffolk https://www.therecordingbooth.co.uk/

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:

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Our first writing tips of 2023 are by novelist Janet Skeslien Charles. Janet became an author at the age of 38 when her novel Moonlight in Odessa was published. It sold in a dozen languages and won a few prizes. A decade later, her next book The Paris Library was published in 36 languages. It was a New York Times bestseller as well as a Richard and Judy selection.

You can find out more about Janet Skeslien Charles and her writing by visiting her website here https://www.jskesliencharles.com/

You can follow Janet on twitter here https://twitter.com/skesliencharles

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:

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We’ll be releasing Write On! podcasts weekly throughout 2023 including writing tips from prominent authors on the first Tuesday of each month. If you’ve enjoyed today’s edition of the podcast please subscribe by searching for ‘Pen to Print’ in your favourite podcast app. If you have a moment to leave us a rating or review this would boost the profile of the podcast and help more writers and book-lovers to find us.

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Today’s showcase is selected by Julie Dexter. Julie is a writer and specialist teacher from London and Kent. She has recently had a poetry Pamphlet published with Arts Council funding through attending workshops with Pen to Print.

You can find out more about Julie Dexter by visiting her website here https://julieadexter.wordpress.com/

You can follow Julie on twitter here https://twitter.com/JulieADexter

The pieces featured in the showcase are

“Snow” by Claire Buss read by Sally Walker-Taylor

“Sherry Trifle” by Clare Cooper read by Sally Walker-Taylor

“Home” by Jo Renton read by Chris Gregory

“Stardust” by Chris Plato performed by Chris Plato and friends

“The Last Train Home” by George F Brown read by 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/

Our first edition of 2023 will feature writing tips by novelist Janet Skeslien Charles and you’ll be able to download it on Tuesday 3rd January.

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In this special festive podcast you can hear the write on team performing their version of Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem “Talking Turkeys”

In “Talking Turkeys” by Benjamin Zephaniah you heard the voices (in order of appearance) of:

Eithne Cullen

Ellie Blake

Madeleine White

Palak Tewary

Amber Hall

Holly King

Farzana Hakim

Esther Ogunbajo

Diya Padiyar

Julie Dexter

Allan Lochead

Lili Hristova

Chris Gregory

Lisa Roullier

Lena Smith

Juneha Chowdhury

Mirabel Lavelle

Mohammed Rahman

Irina Goncherenko

And Claire Buss

The poem was reproduced with the kind permission of Benjamin Zephaniah and publishers Puffin.

The audio poem was mixed and edited by Palak Tewary and you can see a video version of the poem on our website, pentoprint.org.

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our listeners who celebrate it a very merry Christmas and a happy 2023. Join us next week for the final showcase of the year which is selected by Julie Dexter. The podcast will be available on 27th December.

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:

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Thank you for listening to this edition of Write On! Audio Weekly.

Today’s listener contribution is from Tony Ballantyne. Tony is the author of Dream London, The Penrose Series and The Recursion Series. He has also written many short stories and non-fiction pieces. Tony grew up in County Durham in the North East of England. He studied Maths at Manchester University before moving to London where he taught Maths and IT.

The piece featured in this podcast is called “Annabel” and it is read by Madeleine White with Chris Gregory

Find out more about Tony Ballantyne by visiting his website https://tonyballantyne.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:

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Our next edition features a festive poem performed by the Write On! team. It will be available to download on Tuesday 20th December.

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Today’s writing tips come from novelist and audio drama writer Cailean Steed

Cailean is the author of “Home”, their debut novel which will be out with Raven / Bloomsbury in January. They were also the winner of the 2021 Pen to Print Audio Play Competition with “Real Boy”

Find out more about Cailean Steed by visiting their website here https://www.caileansteed.com/

You can follow Cailean on twitter here https://twitter.com/CaileanSteed

And pre-order a copy of “Home” from Bloomsbury here

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/home-9781526641663/

You can listen to Cailean’s audio drama “Real Boy” over at Alternative Stories here

https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/9690521-real-boy-an-audio-drama

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:

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Our next edition features an original audio monologue by Tony Ballantyne

If you’re interested in writing for audio you may wish to consider signing up for the Pen to Print audio season of workshops led by Write On! Audio producer Chris Gregory. There’ll be everything from audio drama to monologue writing and we’ll have sessions on poetry, podcasting and tips on recording and voice acting. Find out more and sign up to all or some of the 6 free sessions via the link below

https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

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This month’s interview is with novelist, poet, spoken word artist and historian Jaspreet Kaur. Passionate about gender issues, taboo subjects and effecting social change across the South Asian community and wider society, her book ‘Brown Girl Like Me has’ been described as “an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity.”

Find out more about Jaspreet by visiting her website https://www.behindthenetra.com/

Follow Jaspreet on Twitter. https://twitter.com/behindthenetra

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

The interview is lead by Write On!’s Diya Padiyar, with support from Madeleine F White https://www.instagram.com/teenagerwritings/

Jaspreet features as the lead interview and cover star for Write On! issue 15. Coming to pentoprint.org and libraries and other distribution networks on 13 December.

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/

Our next edition will be out on 6th December and features writing tips from novelist and audio dramatist Cailean Steed

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Today’s Showcase is selected by Write On’s Mirabel Lavelle.

The pieces in the showcase are:

Kettle by Eithne Cullen

Anxiety and Binge Eating by Sam Gibson

Alcova by Janice Caruana

The readers were Sally Walker-Taylor and Chris Gregory

If you enjoyed Janice Caruana’s piece, you can read her book which is entitled: The Midwife and Birth in the Maltese Community in the 20th Century. It depicts life in Maltese homes, where, a special room called, Alcova, was a space where a bride got to know her groom, fell pregnant and then gave birth and nursed her baby.

You can follow Mirabel on twitter where she posts as https://twitter.com/Mirabel20287342

And you can read her showcase selections here https://pentoprint.org/showcase-nut-a-boy-midwife-extract-diabetes-anxiety-eating/

Please note - we incorrectly stated in the presenter script for this podcast that Mirabel teaches at the University of Sunderland. We should have said that she "taught" there.

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/

Our next edition features an interview with the agenda setting author, poet and educator, Jaspreet Kaur.

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This month’s listener contribution is from Maltese poet and playwright Nicole Piscopo. Nicole is a poet in her twenties whose work is often shared on Instagram where she posts as https://www.instagram.com/maybe_its_fate_poetry/

You can also find Nicole’s work on Facebook at https://m.facebook.com/penguinandpandapoetry

If you’ve enjoyed listening to Nicole’s poetry and would like to share some of your own writing with us we’re always delighted to read your contributions. Please submit your work to:

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

On the podcast next week, we’ll have a showcase selected by Write On!’s Mirabel Lavelle. Subscribe by searching “pen to print” in your favourite podcast app.

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Our November writing tips are from Australian novelist and short fiction writer Bill Swiggs. Bill’s acclaimed novel Blood in the Dust was published in 2019 and Bill won the 2018 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award for “Best Unpublished Manuscript” for Blood in the Dust. He has combined writing with careers in the Australian Air Force, the Police Force and as a firefighter.

You can find out more about Bill and his work by following him on facebook here https://www.facebook.com/adventurebooksaus/

and on twitter here https://twitter.com/bswiggs

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/

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In our October interview, Write On! editor Madeleine White chats to academic, author and poet Professor M Wynn Thomas about his career, approach to writing and his latest book “The History of Wales in Twelve Poems” The interview was part of Write On’s ReadFest and recorded via zoom.

You can find out more about Professor Wynn Thomas by visiting his page on the website of Swansea University where he teaches

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/crew-staff/professor-m-wynn-thomas/

Find out more about The History of Wales in Twelve Poems and order a copy from publisher The University of Wales Press here

https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-history-of-wales-in-twelve-poems/

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/

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

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Our October showcase is selected by Write On’s Diya Padiyar. Diya is a writer from Goa in India and this is her second showcase for Write On!

The pieces Diya selected for this showcase are

‘Where is Home?’ By Diya Padiyar

‘Right Now You are my Home’ by Jazziel Fernandes

‘The Wind’s Embrace’ by Nadia Sadiq

‘Looking for Home’ by Nadia Sadiq

The reader in this showcase is Sally Walker-Taylor

You can find out more about more about Diya by following her on Instagram where she posts as https://www.instagram.com/teenagerwritings/

And you can read Diya’s selections for this showcase on the Pen-to-Print website here https://pentoprint.org/showcase-ode-home-roof-heart-you/

Next week on Write On! Audio we’ll bring you an interview with the academic and author of The History of Wales in 12 Poems, Professor M. Wynn Thomas

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/

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Our October Listener contribution comes from Allan Lochhead, an engineer and actor from south London. Originally training as an engineer, the door opened to the world of poetry and drama when he attended a public speaking evening class run by the actor George Pensotti, at the Mary Ward Centre in London.

A long-standing member of Equity, Allan has sung in the choir and performed his own monologue, directed by the late Roger Lloyd Pack. He has also written a comedy, which was performed at the Actor’s Centre in London. He travelled around the country with Theatre In Education tours, was part of a successful Street Theatre company which toured the UK and abroad, and worked at the Millenium Dome for a year, with the Natural Theatre Company. The main influence for his poetry is simple: anything that moves him emotionally. He has had poems and features published in Woman’s Weekly, Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special and WriteOn! magazines and was runner-up in a poetry competition run by Westminster Council and judged by Andrew Motion.

You can find out more about more about Allan Lochead and his writing by following him on twitter where he posts as https://twitter.com/LochPhoto

Next week on Write On! Audio we’ll bring you a showcase selected by Diya Padiya

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:

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Our October writing tips come from Deirdre Cartmill. Deirdre is a poet, writer and playwright from Northern Ireland. She has published two poetry collections, “The Return of the Buffalo” and “Midnight Solo”. She’s written for TV, stage and radio, and she’s recently received a commission from Belfast’s Lyric Theatre to write a new play. She is currently writing her first non fiction book, about her healing journey after surviving two heart attacks in a week when she was 43.

You can find out more about Deirdre Cartmill and her writing by visiting her website www.deirdrecartmill.com

And follow Deirdre on twitter at https://twitter.com/deirdrecartmill

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/

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Our September showcase is selected and presented by Write On’s Juneha Chowdhury.

Juneha is a teacher and writer from east London. She won the Pen to Print Book Challenge in 2018 and is a regular contributor to Write On! magazine and Write On! Extra. You can hear Juneha in the podcast introducing each of the pieces in the showcase.

You can find out more about Juneha by visiting her website https://junehachowdhury.com/

Following Juneha on twitter https://twitter.com/JunehaChowdhury

You can read poems from this podcast and some additional pieces in Juneha’s showcase here: https://pentoprint.org/showcase-paris-library-out-of-season-flower-hats-so-cold/

Thank you to Juneha Chowdhury for selecting this month’s showcase.

The pieces you heard were:

“The Co-Existence Equation” by Danny Baxter

“Landing Place” by Bee McCormack-Henderson

“Out Of Season Flower” by Palak Tewary

The haiku were by Robin Nixon, Eithne Cullen and Mary Walsh.

Our readers were Chris Gregory and Sally Walker-Taylor and the podcast was presented by Tiffany Clare.

Join us on Write On! Audio in October for more poetry as we celebrate the UK’s National Poetry Day which is on Thursday 6th October.

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/

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Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen To PrintToday’s interview is with novelist, poet, musician and playwright Louis de Bernières. The interviewer is Write On!’s Eithne Cullen. The interview was recorded via zoom and we apologise for any sound issues arising from this. The interview was recorded by Madeleine White and edited by Chris Gregory.

You can find out more about Louis de Bernières and buy his books via his website here https://www.louisdebernieresofficial.com/

You can read the full interview with Louis in our upcoming edition of Write ON! Magazine which will be out on 28th September. Details here https://pentoprint.org/write_on/

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/

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Today’s listener contribution is from London-based writer, photographer and spoken word artists Ovyuki. You can find out more about and her work by visiting her website

www.ovyuki.com

Ovyuki is the founder of Hidden Literature, a platform for poets, spoken word artists. Find out more by visiting the Hidden Literature website

www.hiddenliterature.com

Follow Ovyuki on social media here

Spotify | Instagram | Facebook

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:

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Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. Poems were introduced written and performed by Ovyuki. 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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Today’s writing tips are by Ray Miles – a writer and poet who has been featured several times in Write On!

You can read Ray’s poem, The Approach to Salisbury here

https://pentoprint.org/showcase-saying-goodbye-approach-salisbury-tired/and you can listen to a reading of it in our December 2021 podcast

If you’ve enjoyed Ray’s writing tips and you are a budding writer please check out our other editions featuring advice for writers. These are usually our first editions of each month and our interviews often include writing advice too.

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 send submission to:

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

Our next edition features poetry from the multi-talented poet, photographer and spoken word artists Ovyuki. Be sure to subscribe in your favourite podcast app to hear it the moment it is released.

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Today’s interview is with science fiction novelist and audio fiction writer Emily Inkpen. The interviewer is Chris Gregory

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

And find out about her drama The Dex Legacy by following this link. https://www.thedexlegacy.com/

In this podcast we recommend three more science fiction audio drama podcasts you may wish to listen to. You can find links to listen to these podcasts here

Broken Road https://www.recursor.tv/brokenroad

Chaika https://y2kpod.com/chaika/

Red Valley https://www.redvalleypod.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:

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Today’s showcase has been chosen by London-based writer Amber Hall. You can connect with Amber on Instagram (@amber.marie.123) and Twitter (@amber_marie_123).

Read Amber’s first showcase at pentoprint.org here: https://pentoprint.org/showcase-worlds-apart-moon-watch-trees/

The pieces featured in this podcast are ‘Grandma’ by Amber Hall, ‘Worlds Apart’ by Tavinder New “You Watch” by Jack Tattersall and ‘Moon’ by Akshitha Ramalingam.

The readers were Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory

The presenter of Write On! Audio is Tiffany Clare, the editor is Madeleine White and production was by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories

To submit your work, please visit https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

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This week on Write On Audio we have a listener contribution from Carole Pluckrose. Carole is a writer, director, producer and actor. In 2014 she co-founded Boathouse Studios, a creative arts venue in Braking. As you’ll hear, Carole is also a celebrant, officiating at funerals and weddings.

Carole's monologue is called Funeral Story and it is written and performed by Carole Pluckrose with music, effects and editing by Chris Gregory. The story is entirely fictional and the characters are not intended to represent any particular individual or individuals. The recording was made via zoom and there are a couple of slight glitches for which we apologise.

Find out about Carole Pluckrose here https://www.boathousebarking.co.uk/carole-pluckrose

and about her work as a celebrant here https://www.carolepluckrose.com/

Find out about The Boathouse, Barking here https://www.boathousebarking.co.uk/

As always this podcast has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory for Alternative 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:

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Our writing tips today are from Andreas Loizou and based on his A-Z of Amazing Storytelling. Andreas Loizou teaches business storytelling, writing skills and finance at companies and universities around the world. He qualified as an accountant, worked as an equity analyst and was a director of training at Financial Times Knowledge. His book The Devil's Deal has been translated into nine languages. He's the founder of the Margate Bookie literary festival, a social enterprise which encourages a love of reading and writing.

Find out more about Andreas and the Margate Bookie Festival which he founded here https://margatebookie.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:

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Our interview today is with novelist Erin Kelly. Erin’s debut novel The Poison Tree, published while Erin was working full time as a journalist, was adapted for television by ITV and enjoyed a huge amount of commercial and critical success. Subsequent books including “we know / you know” and “He said / she said” were featured on Richard and Judy’s book club and when an author was required to write the novelisation of the BAFTA winning TV show Broadchurch, Erin was selected. Her most recent critically acclaimed novel is “Watch Her Fall.”

The interviewer is Mary Walsh with Madeleine White

You can find out more about Erin Kelly and order copies of her books at her website www.erinkelly.co.uk

You can follow Erin on twitter at https://twitter.com/mserinkelly

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

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/

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Today’s showcase is selected by Charlotte Zisimides. Charlotte came to Pen to Print through a competition called ‘What If YOU Spoke?’ which she entered with a poem called “Loss Of Limb”. She sent it to the nature competition, judged by Zakiya Mckenzie and it was a runner-up.

You can read Charlotte’s showcase which also includes a photograph taken by Charlotte over at pentoprint.org via the link below

https://pentoprint.org/showcase-wait-musings-bridge-building/

The pieces in this podcast are “Wait” by Charlotte Zisimides read by Tiffany Clare and “Musings on Bridge Building” by Danny Baxter read by Chris Gregory.

Find out more about Danny Baxter and follow him on Instagram @dan_lbbd

If you have been affected by the issues Charlotte discusses in the poem “Wait” you can find help and read more via this link https://pentoprint.org/about/advice-support/

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:

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Our listener contribution today is from Diya Padiyar, a writer from Goa in India who is a regular contributor to Write On!

Diya’s poems in this edition are called

Comfort Zone

Solitude

The Other Side

Where is Light?

All poems were read and introduced by Diya herself. The soundscape music was written by Chris Gregory

You can find out more about Diya by following her on Instagram where she posts as https://www.instagram.com/teenagerwritings/

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:

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In today’s writing tips edition of Write On! Audio you can hear advice from Write On!’s deputy editor Claire Buss. Claire talks about how not to write a series and offers advice on reading for writers.

You can find out much more about Claire who is a science fiction and fantasy writer writing for young adult readers by visiting her website https://clairebuss.co.uk/

You can also follow Claire on social media where she posts on twitter https://twitter.com/grasshopper2407

And on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/grasshopper2407/

You’ll find further links on her website.

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.

Winner of the Audio Play competition (Sponsored by Alternative Stories)

Winner of the Pen to Print Short Story competition.

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

Our interview today is with Patrice Lawrence. Born to Italian and Trinidadian parents, Patrice grew up in Brighton. Her work has included writing acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and young adults with her novel “Eight Pieces of Silva” winning the inaugural Jhalak Prize for children and young adults books in 2021

The interviewer is Farzana Hakim

You can find out more about Patrice and her work by visiting her website here https://patricelawrence.wordpress.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.

Our Listener contribution today is from Patricia Mahoney. Patricia was born in Canada but now lives in London. Five of her plays have been professionally produced and she also works in poetry, short stories and flash fiction. She is also involved in Arts administration and management. Her husband is the musician and composer Jamie Moore and you can hear his voice and guitar accompanying Patricia in this piece which is called “Census Time”.

Thank you to Patricia Mahoney for this listener contribution. The guitarist in this recording was Jamie Moore. You can find out more about Patricia and her work by visiting her website here https://www.patriciamahoney.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, the podcast for writers everywhere . 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.

Welcome to the first of our new series of weekly podcasts. This first edition features Bernie Morgan.

Bernie is an author, public speaker, presenter and podcaster. She’s the author of “The Amazing Life of Cecilia Chattergee” which is based on the life of Bernie’s great grandmother a lawyer and fighter for women’s rights and independence in India under British rule. You can hear an excerpt from the book read by Bernie in this podcast.

You can find out more about Bernie and her book via her website.

https://www.amazingwomeninvisiblelives.com/

You can read our showcase pieces and find out more about Pen To Print’s workshops, and events by visiting our website here

https://pentoprint.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.

The May 2022 edition of Write On! Audio features writing tips from Erin Kelly, an inspirational moment from Andreas Loizou, a showcase by Libraries Unlimited and a listener contribution from Danny Baxter. As usual, the presenter is Tiffany Clare

In this edition of Write On! Audio you can hear

· Inspirational moments from Andreas Loizou

· Writing tips from Erin Kelly

· A listener contribution featuring three poems by Danny Baxter

· The May showcase which is selected by Libraries Unlimited and features

o An excerpt from “A Chapter on Grief” by Rue Ronan read by Sally Walker Taylor

o A poem “How Are You?” by Filippo Rossi read by Chris Gregory

· And a look forward to future editions

Here are some links to help you to find out more about our contributors

You can visit Erin Kelly’s website at https://www.erinkelly.co.uk/

You can connect with Danny Baxter on Instagram @dan_lbbd

Libraries Unlimited https://www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/

Find out more about Andreas Loizou here https://thanetwriters.com/writer/andreas-loizou/

And visit the Margate Bookie website here https://margatebookie.com/

You can read our showcase pieces and find out more about Pen To Print’s workshops, and events by visiting our website here https://pentoprint.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.

Starting in June we’ll be experimenting with a weekly format for Write On! Audio so please subscribe to have our editions delivered to you the moment they are released.

The April 2022 edition of Write On! Audio features an interview with poet Daljit Nagra, Writing Tips from Stewart Ross, a Showcase from ‘Write Back’, poetry from Nicole Piscopo and much more. The podcast is presented by Tiffany Clare.

In this edition of Write On! Audio you can hear:

· A poem from Lauren Michelle

· The Editor’s introduction by Madeleine White

· Writing Tips from Stewart Ross

· An interview with Daljt Nagra (Daljit was in conversation with Juneha Chowdhury)

· The April showcase; selected by Blessings and Manusha from ‘Write Back’ featuring:

o Chameleon by Toki read by Holly Skinner

o Period by Hazel read by Holly Skinner

· A Listener Contribution featuring poems by Nicole Piscopo

· A look forward to future editions

Here are some links to help you to find out more about our contributors:

Visit Lauren Michelle on Instagram here: instagram.com/iamlaurenmichelle

Visit Stewart Ross’s website here: stewartross.com

Find out more about Daljit Nagra and his work here: daljitnagra.com

And learn more about interviewer Juneha Chowdhury here: junehachowdhury.com

And read the full interview along with all our other content at: pentoprint.org

Visit Write Back’s page to find out more about their work here: write-back.org

And check out Nicole Piscopo’s poetry on Instagram here: instagram.com/maybe_its_fate_poetry

See a written version of Juneha’s conversation with Daljit in issue 12 of Write On! Magazine by visiting our website here pentoprint.org. That’s also where you’ll find the Showcase pieces, as well as being able find out more about Pen to Print’s workshop and events.

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: 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.

The next edition of Write On! Audio will be out on 31 May so do subscribe to have it delivered to you the moment it is released.

The March 2022 edition of Write On! Audio features a showcase selected by Juneha Chowdhury, Writing and Publishing tips for authors from Lucy Van Smit and Richard Gould, an interview with Vivian Archer from the Newham Bookshop and much more! As usual the presenter is Tiffany Clare.

In this edition of Write On! Audio you can hear:

· A poem The Smell of Spring by Linda James

· A look at Women’s Empowerment Month by Iesha Denize

· An introduction to the podcast by Write On! editor Madeleine White

· Writing tips by Lucy Van Smit

· An interview with Vivian Archer from the Newham Bookshop. The interviewers are Madeleine White and Eithne Cullen.

· The March showcase is presented by Juneha Chowdhury and features:

o Being Myself by Danny Baxter read by Chris Gregory
o Madly In Love With Thunderstorms by Patsy Middleton
o Dark Clouds by Palak Tewary
o And Tread Gently on this Earth by Alicia Hayden all read by Sally Walker-Taylor

· A Listener’s Contribution about self-publishing from Richard Gould who writes as R J Gould

Here are some links so you can find out more about our contributors:

Find out more about Iesha Denize and her art here: https://www.peachmangomaverick.com/about-the-artist/

You can visit Lucy Van Smit’s website to find out more about her and order her books here: http://lucyvansmit.com/

The Newham Bookshop website has details of many of the events mentioned in our interview and you can find out more by visiting the shop’s website here: https://www.newhambooks.co.uk/

You can find out more about our showcase editor Juneha Chowdhury and her work here: https://junehachowdhury.com/

Visit R J Gould’s website and find out more about his writing at his website here: https://www.rjgould.info/

You can find the full interview with Vivian in Sunday interviews on https://pentoprint.org/

You’ll also find our showcase pieces and get more information on Pen To Print’s workshops, and events by visiting our website.

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. To submit to Write On! visit: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

Alternatively, you can Email your submission to pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk with the Subject Line ‘Write On Submission.’

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.

The next edition of Write On! Audio will be out on 26 April so please subscribe to have it delivered to you the moment it is released.

Thank you for listening to the Write On! Audio February 2022 edition. As always, our presenter is Tiffany Clare and we have contributions from Palak Tewary, Eithne Cullen, Danny Rhodes, Cailean Steed, Charlotte Webb and Jonathan Hirons

Our running order for this edition is

· Inspirational moments from Palak Tewary and Eithne Cullen

· An introduction from our editor, Madeleine White

· Writing tips from Danny Rhodes

· An interview with the 2021 Pen To Print Audio Play Competition winner Cailean Steed

· This month’s showcase is compiled and introduced by Charlotte Webb . The featured pieces are “Stay” by Shahema Tafader , “The Storyteller’s Souk” by Claire Buss and “From Hate To Love” by Danny Baxter. The readers were Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory.

· A listener contribution from Jonathan Hirons in which he describes the aphasia he now suffers from as a result of a stroke and his subsequent change of career to become a film maker. The section ends with a short extract from one of Jonathan’s films.

Palak Tewary is a writer who has frequently contributed to Write On! Read more of her work here https://pentoprint.org/tag/palak-tewary/

Eithne Cullen is a poet, teacher and member of the Write On! Team. You can read her Writer of The Month feature in Write On! here https://pentoprint.org/writer-of-the-month-eithne-cullen/

Danny Rhodes is a novelist, short story writer and creative writing lecturer. You can find out more about Danny and his work via his website http://www.dannyrhodes.net/

Cailean Steed is a novelist and audio dramatist from Scotland. You can listen to her award winning audio drama Real Boy here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/9690521-real-boy-an-audio-drama

And follow Cailean on twitter here https://twitter.com/caileansteed

Charlotte Webb is am artist and illustrator from Wolverhampton. You can visit her website to find out more about her work here https://cbwillustration.wixsite.com/illustration

Find out more about film-make Jonathan Hirons and his work here https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7997253/

And about Aphasia here https://www.stroke.org.uk/what-is-aphasia

You can find full details of all the upcoming events workshops and courses offered by our parent organisation Pen To Print via this link by visiting our events page here https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

If you’ve enjoyed the writing featured in this edition and would like the chance to hear some of your own words on the podcast please contact us via our email address pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk to submit your work via the submission page here https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

Next month on Write On! Audio we’ll bring you another selection of content for writers everywhere. Thank you for listening to this edition which is presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories

Write On! Audio is part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Thank you for listening to the Write On! Audio January 2022 edition. As always, our presenter is Tiffany Clare and we have contributions from Arinola Araba, Lucy Kaufman, Mirable Lavelle and Bob Thompson with an interview with award-winning author Frances Hardinge.

Our running order for this edition is

· An inspirational moment from Arinola Araba

· An introduction from our editor, Madeleine White

· Writing tips, “A Year’s Experiment in Writing” by Lucy Kaufman

· An interview with Frances Hardinge. The interviewer is Claire Buss

· This month’s showcase is compiled and introduced by Mirabel Lavelle. The featured pieces are “Deceiving Appearances” by Vic Howard read by Chris Gregory, “Thank You To A Stranger” by Laura MacLennan and “Tram Shelter” by John Holmes both read by Sally Walker-Taylor

· A short story “Carrion” by Bob Thompson

Arinola Araba is an author, entrepreneur and Pen to Print regular.

Lucy Kaufman writes drama for stage and screen. She has had 34 plays performed at venues around the UK and elsewhere and she teaches both stage and screen writing for Pen to Print.

Frances Hardinge came to widespread publication attention when her 2015 novel, The Lie Tree won the Costa Book Award. She has published nine novels and numerous short stories. She has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal twice (not won it twice as we said in our presenter script) and won the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel for Cuckoo Song.

Mirabel Lavelle is a writer working on her debut novel and an academic tutor at the University Of Sunderland.

Bob Thompson won a Pen to Print Flash fiction competition in 2020 and has been writing, acting and directing since he was 16. He has completed two full-length stage plays: The Equestrianist and The Richest Jewel. His first published novel is Old Tom and his first screenplay, The Ghost Walk, is in pre-production.

We’d like to draw our listeners attention to some of the writing courses and workshops being run by our parent organisation Pen To Print over the next few weeks. We have a full range of tuition in poetry, fiction and scriptwriting and you can learn about writing for comic books with Wallis Eates and writing the sense with Write On!’s Eithne Cullen. As usual you can find full details by visiting our events page here https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

If you’ve enjoyed the writing featured in this edition and would like the chance to hear some of your own words on the podcast please contact us via our email address pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk to submit your work. Don’t forget, thanks to our partnership with Bloomsbury, the first two pieces we feature, either as “Listener Contributions” or “Inspirational Moments”, will receive the newly published: A Writer’s Journal by Lucy van Smit. Submit via the submission page here https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

Next month on Write On! Audio we’ll bring you another selection of content for writers everywhere. Thank you for listening to this edition which is presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories

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Write On! Audio is part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

In the December edition of Write On! Audio you can hear

· A festive Reasons To Be Cheerful by Mary Walsh read by Sally Walker-Taylor

· Editor’s Introduction from Madeleine White

· Writing tips from Patrick Forsyth

· An interview with bestselling romantic novelist Sue Moorcroft: The interviewer is Diya Padiyar

· December’s showcase from Eithne Cullen featuring “Tired” by Claire Buss read by Sally Walker-Taylor and “The Approach To Salisbury” by Ray Miles read by Chris Gregory

· A listener contribution from Palak Tewary which is called “Christmas In The Air”

· A look at our Thursday Connectors page introduced by Farzana Hakim. In this section we feature “The Mail Boat” by Eithne Cullen and “Things That Went Wrong For Me in 2021” by Fatima Ahmed both read by Hadiya Morris

The presenter in this edition is Tiffany Clare

The readers are Sally Walker-Taylor, Chris Gregory and Hadiya Morris

Music and production are by Chris Gregory

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

Coming up in January on Write On! Audio we’ll have our usual range of features, interviews, writing tips and listener contributions. Join us to hear writing tips from Lucy Kaufman and a listener contribution from Bob Thompson.

Also in January our parent organisation, Pen to Print will be offering the usual range of writing courses and workshops. You can find out all about these sessions by visiting the “events and classes” page on the Pen to Print website. We have everything from screenwriting, led by Lucy Kaufman, beginners classes in creative writing and poetry with Ian Ayris and Anna Robinson - to writing for children and young adults with Catherine Coe. You can find details of all these events and book onto them at pentoprint.org – click on events and classes to find out more. We hope you’ll find something inspiring to start your year and spark your creativity.

As always we’d love to hear from you. If you’d like to contribute a piece of writing to the podcast you can contact us via pentoprint.org on the NEW submission page or email the team at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

You can find out more about our contributors by visiting their websites or following them on social media

Patrick Forsyth http://www.patrickforsyth.com/

Sue Moorcroft https://www.suemoorcroft.com/

Follow Sue on twitter https://twitter.com/SueMoorcroft

Eithne Cullen https://twitter.com/eithne_cullen

Claire Buss https://clairebuss.co.uk/

Follow Claire on twitter https://twitter.com/Grasshopper2407

Palak Tewary https://palaktewary.com/about/

Follow Palak on twitter https://twitter.com/palaktewary

Farzana Hakim https://twitter.com/farzanahakim

Madeleine White Follow Madeleine on twitter https://twitter.com/madeleinefwhite

Follow Madeleine on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/madeleinefwhite

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In the November 2021 edition of Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere we have reasons to be cheerful from Palak Tewary and Lucy Kaufman, writing tips from Claire Buss and an interview with author Sara Grant. Our showcase this month is presented by Diya Padiyar and we have a short story from writer H B O’Neill. We feature our Thoughtful Tuesday with Eithne Cullen and look forward to writing courses and workshops from Pen to Print

In this podcast you can hear the following

The editor’s introduction from Madeleine White
Reasons to be cheerful with Lucy Kaufman and Palak Tewary
Writing tips from Claire Buss.
An interview with author Sara Grant. The interviewer is Charlotte Webb
Our November showcase with Diya Padiyar includes the following pieces:
“Bucket Lanterns” by Anya Wikramanayake,
“There’s Blood On The Sands Of Tunisia” by Fred Herbert Courtney Bouchier
“The House With Two Candles” By Erin White. The reader is Sally Walker Taylor
Listener of the Month – This month we feature the short story “Unshackled Then Freed” by H.B. O’Neill. It is read by Carl Wharton.
Thoughtful Tuesday presented by Eithne Cullen.
An overview of upcoming courses and workshops from Pen to Print.

The podcast is presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories.

You can find out more about our guests and contributors via their websites here:

Lucy Kaufman https://lucykaufman.wordpress.com/
Palak Tewary https://palaktewary.com/
Claire Buss https://clairebuss.co.uk/
Sara Grant https://www.sara-grant.com/
Diya Padiyar https://www.instagram.com/teenagerwritings/
H.B O’Neill https://hboneill.com/
Eithne Cullen https://eithnecullenpoet.wordpress.com/

Read the printed version of Write On! via the Pen to Print website here https://pentoprint.org/

If you would like to book onto any of the courses and workshops mentioned in this podcast please click the link below to find out more and reserve a place subject to availability

https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

If you would like to write to us please contact us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk
Follow Pen to Print on Twitter here https://twitter.com/Pen_to_Print
And on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/officialpentoprint/

Please join us for the December edition of Write On! Audio. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have the podcast delivered to your feed the moment it is released.

Write On! Audio is part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

In this edition of Write On! Audio presented by Tiffany Clare you can hear the following content

· An excerpt from “If” by Rudyard Kipling” read by Chris Gregory

· Write On! editor Madeleine White welcomes listeners to the podcast

· A Q&A With Ben Aaronovitch recorded live at Pen to Print’s ReadFest in 2016

· Write On!’s Monday Moments editor Holly King introducing her page with writing from Matt Wixey and Patsy Middleton

· Listener of the Month Iesha Denize explains what Black History Month means to her

· October Showcase with Michelle Sutton featuring pieces based on the experiences of those suffering from ADHD and Dyslexia

Learn more about our guest Ben Aaronovitch and his writing by visiting his website https://www.benaaronovitch.com/

You can find out more about Iesha Denize and her work as an artist and writer here https://www.artconnect.com/iesha-denize

Michelle Sutton is part of the writing collective LM Towton. You can follow them on twitter here https://twitter.com/lm_towton

Read the printed version of Write On! via the Pen to Print website here https://pentoprint.org/

If you would like to book onto any of the courses and workshops mentioned in this podcast please click the link below to find out more and reserve a place subject to availability

https://pentoprint.org/about/events/

If you would like to write to us please contact us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

Follow Pen to Print on twitter here https://twitter.com/Pen_to_Print

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

Production, sound design and editing in this podcast are by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories. You heard the voices of Tiffany Clare and Hadiya Morris

Please join us for the November edition of Write On! Audio. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have the podcast delivered to your feed the moment it is released.

Write On! Audio is part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Welcome to the pilot edition of Write On! Audio. In this podcast you can hear the following features

Poet Jennifer Wong talks about her writing practice and read poems from her 2020 Nine Arches press collection “Letters Home” To buy a copy of “Letters Home” directly from the publisher please follow this link

https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/letters-home.html

And to find out more about Jennifer Wong and her poetry lease visit her webpage here

https://jenniferwong.co.uk/

You can listen to the full interview via Alternative Stories here https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/4735574-letters-home-poetry-by-jennifer-wong

Jenny Wong was first featured in Write On! Issue 8. To read the interview and enjoy the magazine please go to : https://pentoprint.org/product/see-write-on-edition-8-here/

Write On! editor Madeleine F White welcomes listeners to Write On! Audio

Actress and poet Marie-Claire Wood talks about performing poems and short fiction

You can her Marie-Claire reciting her poetry on this podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/8567031-poems-from-marie-claire-wood-tak-erzinger-kevan-manwaring-and-sarra-culleno

Claire Buss performs her poem “Eat the Frog”

The Write On! day editors talk about their pages. Our day editors are

Holly King
Claire Buss
Farzana Iqbal
Eithne Cullen

The final poem, reflecting on summer from an adult perspective by Danny Fenn is performed by Chris Gregory

This edition of the podcast is presented by Tiffany Clare
Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory
The feature on Jennifer Wong was originally published on the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast

To contact Write On! Audio and to submit pieces to the podcast please send us an email at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

You can follow Pen to Print via twitter at https://twitter.com/Pen_to_Print

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

You can visit the Pen to Print website and link to Write On! Extra including to all of the day pages described in this podcast here https://pentoprint.org/

Read the latest edition of Write On! Magazine here https://pentoprint.org/product/see-write-on-edition-10-here/

Write On! Audiois part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Winner of the 2021 Pen to Print Short Story Competition.

Winning Poem form the 2021 Pen to Print Poetry Competition.

Leo Ulph, actor musician and broadcast journalist, talks to Write On! Extra about his evening show on BBC Radio Kent, why he’s passionate about showcasing talent on the BBC via the ‘Upload’ initiative, and how ‘anyone that’s making anything’ can get on air by providing an audio version of their content. As a radio professional, it’s only right he’s recorded his interview!

Go to: https://pentoprint.org/introducing-write-on-extra-daily-posts-for-difficult-times/

Try out this free writing Exercise with Sarah-Jane Page.

Mary Walsh reads her poem for Write On! Extra

Go to: https://pentoprint.org/introducing-write-on-extra-daily-posts-for-difficult-times/

Juneha is a Mum of 4 living in East London. Our initiative Pen To Print has helped her boost her confidence, make friends and fulfil her dream of becoming a writer.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

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Claire Buss is one of our Pen To Print finalists. She took a leap of faith when entering our competition and has never looked back! From stay at home mum to published author, Claire also helps us run some of our workshops for aspiring authors.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

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Poet Jenny Grant gives us her fantastic advice for new poets. Want FREE mentoring, networking and workshops for poets? Get involved with Pen To Print 👉http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint This episode is a great mini masterclass for writing poetry for beginners.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

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Rebecca Seaton has been a teacher for more than 20 years, has tried to get published in the past & finally has taken a BIG leap forward by becoming a finalist in our competition 📚 Pen To Print gives ordinary people the chance to become a published author 📚

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

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Number 1 best selling Amazon author, Jaclyn Dunne, shares her biggest tip when dealing with negativity and how to handle people that don't believe you can become an author.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

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Packed full of tips from our Pen To Print finalists to get you motivated to keep writing. Some great advice for new writers & aspiring authors. Know any new authors that are struggling with writers block? Make sure you share this episode with them :)

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

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Lucy Kaufman is one of our Pen To Print finalists and now one of our fantastic trainers, helping the next generation of P2P winners. She's a true talent in the playwright world. Today we talk about rejection, yes it can be harsh getting 'rejected' but you must keep going.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

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Today at the Pen To Print HQ was our author talks event with Amazing Angel. This young lady is only 10 years old, she's a motivational speaker and has just launched her first book called 'Make It Happen - 5 Steps To Dreaming Big'

Want some writers motivation? Then Amazing Angel will definitely leave you feeling inspired to start writing your very own book.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet and creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews, get free support and find out about forthcoming events on our website http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

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The multi-talented Hanna Ali shares her biggest tip for writing short stories. Hanna is a photographer, festival director, listed as number 4 in Buzz Feed’s “21 Black British Muslims You Should Know About” and was a part of Trailblazing Muslim Women 2018. She recently spoke at our ReadFest event in London and spoke about her incredible journey so far.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

Find out more at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

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So many different ways to market yourself as an author, poet or aspiring writer. Lisa from the Pen To Print team is here to share all her secret tactics that Authors can use to promote themselves and really start building their brand. Social media is fantastic but think how you can use traditional marketing to promote your shiny new book too.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids.

Get involved now at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

Building your personal brand as an author is so important. You could have written the best book but if no one knows about you, then you're going to find it very hard to stand out for the thousands of other authors.

Today's guest, Daniella Blechner, is an author and has a business where she coaches new authors to effectively use social media and boost their profile.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE workshops & mentoring.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Get support by going to http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

Farzana Iqbal was a previous Pen To Print winner and in this episode she shares how you can become a published author. Farzana was a stay at home mum and by entering Pen To Print writing competition she has not only turned from an aspiring author to a published author - she boosted her confidence and really changed her life.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes & playwriting workshops.

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

As a writer when an opportunity presents itself to get your book published AND receive FREE mentoring for a year from an established author - then take it!

Lena from the Pen To Print team is here to share the common mistakes new authors make when entering the Pen To Print book competition.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

You will be amazed with all these FREE workshops and talks we've got going on at Pen To Print and ReadFest this month! Lisa from the Pen To Print team shares her confidence-boosting tips for women authors and why it's so important to come a networking with other aspiring writers.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

The amazing author, Barbara Nadel, is here to share with us her advice on how you can become a published author. You'll be blown away by her wisdom, honesty and inspirational story.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

Lucy Kaufman was a finalist in Pen To Print - she shares her top tips for aspiring authors and what it takes to become a dedicated writer.

The Pen To Print team are Lena and Lisa & they help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to creative writing greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

Tips to become a #1 best selling author on Kindle Amazon. Listen how a first time author got her book to the top of the Amazon charts.

A fantastic insight from Jaclyn Dunne, author of 'Mind, Body, Miracle'

Lena and Lisa are here to help make your writing dreams come true and guide you to greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding author, poet creative writer. Join us for exciting interviews and get free support at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint

Welcome to the launch of the Pen To Print podcast with the team that heads up this amazing initiative.

Lena and Lisa are here to help make your writing dreams come true, build up your confidence and guide you to greatness.

Veena V hosts the podcast and gets established authors and Pen To Print finalists to share their top writing tips.

What is Pen To Print? It's an amazing initiative set up by Barking & Dagenham council in the UK and is funded by the arts council. It gives people the help to become a published author & offers FREE poetry classes, playwriting workshops and writing competitions for kids

Want to become a published author? Want to learn how to be a best selling amazon author? Maybe you’re in need of some inspiration from established poets, writers and authors? How did they turn their passion into a paying job?

The Pen To Print weekly podcast is for any budding writer. Join us for exciting interviews and keep up to date at http://lbbd.gov.uk/pentoprint