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Our July interview is with Habon Jama + Catherine Coe 

Habon Jama is a London based writer and a mentee of All Stories, a programme set up by Catherine Coe to provide mentorship for unrepresented children's book writers.

Catherine Coe is a successful children's writer, editor and writing mentor, her children's books include the ‘Owls Of Blossom Wood’ and the ‘Kid Cowboy’ series

 

The interviewers are Vrushali Khadilkar and Eithne Cullen.

 

You can find out more about All Stories including their mentorship programme here https://linktr.ee/allstorieswrite

You can visit Catherine Coe’s website here https://www.catherine-coe.com/

And find Habon Jama’s website here https://habonmjama.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. The original recording was made by Madeleine White. 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 poem of the month this month is Dim Sum at Joy King Lau by Jennifer Wong.  This was originally published in her Nine Arches press collection “Letters Home”

 

You can find out more about Jennifer by following her on X, formerly Twitter  https://x.com/jennywcreative

You can visit her web page here https://jenniferinlondon.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.

 

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 listener contribution for July comes from poet Bee Henderson. A Scottish poet living in England, Bee McCormack Henderson works in words though her poetry and colours in her art.  Her poetry has been described as "wholesome" and "quite lovely"

 

The poems in this podcast were written, read, introduced and recorded by Bee Henderson 



If you’d like to find out more about Bee and her work you can visit her website here https://www.beehenderson.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 writing tips this month are once again from Write On’s Eithne Cullen and Mary Walsh.  For our recording, Eithne and Mary are in conversation at the Hay Festival where they were part of the Write On! Team attending the event.   They chat about the inspirational and informative nature of the festival and the various writers they have heard speaking during the event.  



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/ 



Find our more about the Hay Festival by visiting the festival’s website here https://www.hayfestival.com/home 



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.

The original location recording was made by Eithne Cullen.  



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 interview this month is with Melanie Reid .   Melanie is a journalist and columnist for The Times newspaper.  She broke her neck in a riding accident in 2010 and since then has been a tetraplegic.  Her weekly musings on her life as a disabled person ‘Spinal column’ appear in The Sunday Times magazine.  As well as her newspaper work Melanie is a published non-fiction author and was awarded an OBE in the 2016 birthday honours. 

 

You can read Melanie’s work for The Times Newspaper here (these pieces are behind a paywall)

https://www.thetimes.com/profile/melanie-reid

 

Follow Melanie on X here https://x.com/mel_reidtimes

 

Melanie was in conversation with Dr Afsana Elanko and Write On! Editor, Madeleine White



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