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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

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

 

 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 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 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.

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

 

Our showcase this month is selected 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