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ArtfulScribe is a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton. We support emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the Solent region to create new work and develop skills through writing workshops, live events and career-development opportunities. We work with all ages and levels of ability, from primary years through to life's later stages. Our work includes collaboration with schools, businesses and organisations, embedding writing into everyday activities through residencies, creative programmes and individual events that celebrate both spoken and written word. ArtfulScribe Audio records and produces community-centred live-literature programmes the bring together local writers and national voices.

Episodes

  1. Oct 22

    The Whispering Library

    Minstead Trust is turning spooky this autumn, as its headquarters are used as the backdrop for a haunted house story written by some of the people they support. The Whispering Library is a ghost story for audio commissioned by ArtfulScribe in partnership with Minstead Trust for Play on Words 2026. Writer and facilitator Sue Edser led three sessions writing with a group at Minstead Trust - New Forest Day Opportunities to write a story inspired by the manor and grounds at Minstead Lodge. The Whispering Library was written by Beau, John, Lisa, Liam and Richard, supported by Elizabeth from Minstead Trust Day Opportunities. The ghost writer and narrator is Sue Edser. The cast of performers are Beau, John, Lisa, Richard, Liam, Richard, Silas, Elizabeth and Antosh. The piece was recorded at Minstead Lodge by Antosh Wojcik, who also sound designed and composed music for the story. A production by ArtfulScribe.

    The Whispering Library

  2. Oct 20

    Writing the Landscape ft. Yarrow Townsend, Emma Jones, Dr Craig Jordan-Baker, Damian Kelly-Basher & Mica Ford - Play on Words 2025 Playback

    You’re listening to the ArtfulScribe Audio Archive. The following programme is a recording from Play On Words 2025 a festival for readers, writers and lovers of words. Play on Words returns to the New Forest, running from 22nd-28th October 2026. For programme information and booking visit: https://www.playonwords.org.uk/ Writing the Landscape was a celebratory event marking the culmination of the inaugural New Forest Writer in Residence, led by ArtfulScribe and funded by the New Forest National Park Authority’s Sustainable Communities Fund. New Forest Writer in Residence Yarrow Townsend was based at the Countryside Education Trust in Beaulieu from 2024-2025. Throughout the four seasons, she worked closely with the New Forest landscape - coppicing, ink-making, river-walking, sheep-herding - reawakening her childhood memories of living in the Forest and finding new ways to communicate the landscape through poetry. In this evening of poetry, prose and stories from the landscape, Yarrow Townsend was joined by Emma Jones, Dr Craig Jordan-Baker, Damian Kelly-Basher and Mica Ford. Play on Words is made possible by funding and support from Arts Council, Culture in Common, New Milton Town Council and New Milton Residents Association. ArtfulScribe, a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton, supports emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the wider Solent region. ArtfulScribe is supported by Arts Council England. https://artfulscribe.co.uk/

    Writing the Landscape ft. Yarrow Townsend, Emma Jones, Dr Craig Jordan-Baker, Damian Kelly-Basher & Mica Ford - Play on Words 2025 Playback

  3. Oct 18

    Local Writers Showcase - Play on Words 2025 Playback

    You’re listening to the ArtfulScribe Audio Archive. The following programme is a recording from Play On Words 2025 a festival for readers, writers and lovers of words. Play on Words returns to the New Forest, running from 22nd-28th October 2026. For programme information and booking visit: https://www.playonwords.org.uk/ Play on Words 2025 hosted a Local Writers Showcase in St Barbe's café drawing together the wealth of writing talent to showcasing writing from the New Forest and surrounding areas. Featuring: Alice G May, author of the new World War Two series The Resistance Girls, The Mid-Life Trials of Annabeth Hope, The House That Sat Down Trilogy and How to Draw... books for children Katie Daysh, author of Leeward (The Times Historical Novel of the Year), The Devil to Pay and A Merciful Sea; Michael Forester, author of 12 books of prose and poetry including If It Wasn't For That Dog; funeral celebrant and storyteller Tess Kazim, recent winner of the Wiltshire Libraries Open Poetry competition and short story writer Deborah Miles; writer, poet, publisher and founder of Naked Figleaf Press Jean G-Owen; poet, and master of fun and farcical mischief SM Ripper; poet, short story writer and volunteer Penny Summerscales, fantasy and science fiction writer Ian Walden; and Clare Whitfield, author of People of Abandoned Character (Goldsboro Glass Bell 2021 Award winner), The Gone and Forgotten and Poor Girls. Play on Words is made possible by funding and support from Arts Council, Culture in Common, New Milton Town Council and New Milton Residents Association. ArtfulScribe, a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton, supports emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the wider Solent region. ArtfulScribe is supported by Arts Council England. https://artfulscribe.co.uk/

    Local Writers Showcase - Play on Words 2025 Playback

  4. Oct 16

    Poetry & Jazz Café ft. Matt Harvey, Issa Loyaan Farrah-Kelly & Joanne Lintott, accompanied by the Guy Gardner Trio - Play on Words 2025 Playback

    From the ArtfulScribe Audio archive, The following programme is a recording from Play On Words 2025 a festival for readers, writers and lovers of words. You’re listening to the 2025 inaugural Play on Words Poetry & Jazz Cafe, an evening of blue note jazz and spoken word recorded at Coda Music and Arts Trust, featuring poet, lyricist and columnist Matt Harvey, a familiar voice on Radio 4 since 2001, Southampton poet Issa Loyaan Farrah-Kelly and Bournemouth-based performance poet and singer Joanne Lintott, accompanied by the improvisational sounds of Guy Gardner and his jazz trio. Play on Words returns to the New Forest, running from 22nd-28th October 2026. For programme information and booking visit: https://www.playonwords.org.uk/ Play on Words is made possible by funding and support from Arts Council, Culture in Common, New Milton Town Council and New Milton Residents Association. ArtfulScribe, a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton, supports emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the wider Solent region. ArtfulScribe is supported by Arts Council England. https://artfulscribe.co.uk/

    Poetry & Jazz Café ft. Matt Harvey, Issa Loyaan Farrah-Kelly & Joanne Lintott, accompanied by the Guy Gardner Trio - Play on Words 2025 Playback

  5. Oct 14

    Play on Words Open Mic ft. Paul Armfield - Play on Words 2025 Playback

    From the ArtfulScribe Audio Archive, the following programme is a recording from Play On Words 2025 a festival for readers, writers and lovers of words. The Play on Words Open Mic, in association with ArtfulScribe, is a monthly live literature, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and spoken word sharing circle held at the Forest Arts Centre in New Milton. What follows is the 2025 festival special edition of the event featuring music from Paul Armfield. Play on Words returns to the New Forest, running from 22nd-28th October 2026. The open mic showcase edition on 26 October features special guests Elvis McGonagall and Stephen Boyce. For programme information and booking visit: https://www.playonwords.org.uk/ Play on Words is made possible by funding and support from Arts Council, Culture in Common, New Milton Town Council and New Milton Residents Association. ArtfulScribe, a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton, supports emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the wider Solent region. ArtfulScribe is supported by Arts Council England. https://artfulscribe.co.uk/

    Play on Words Open Mic ft. Paul Armfield - Play on Words 2025 Playback
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ArtfulScribe is a not-for-profit writer development agency based in Southampton. We support emerging and continuing writers in Hampshire, Dorset, and the Solent region to create new work and develop skills through writing workshops, live events and career-development opportunities. We work with all ages and levels of ability, from primary years through to life's later stages. Our work includes collaboration with schools, businesses and organisations, embedding writing into everyday activities through residencies, creative programmes and individual events that celebrate both spoken and written word. ArtfulScribe Audio records and produces community-centred live-literature programmes the bring together local writers and national voices.

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  • Creator
    ArtfulScribe
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © ArtfulScribe
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