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Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our December interview is with actor and writer Paterson Joseph.   Currently appearing in BBC TV’s drama Boat Story , Paterson Joseph came to widespread public attention for his role as Johnson in Channel 4’s Peepshow.  His debut novel T he Secret Diaries Of Charles Ignatius Sancho  wa...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print Our December Showcase is selected and presented by Write On! team member Palak Tewary. A writer and business woman, Palak is the author of a poetry collection  The Stanzas of Time , published in November. The pieces featured in this showcase were: Paths of Gems by Elaine Hickman-Luter Th...

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

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

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   This months' interview is with novelist and life coach Elen Sentier.   The best-selling author of 12 books, Elen describes herself as an author of "magical-realism and British cunning folk.” Her writing draws on shamanism, paganism, folklore and magic.  She is also known for h...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print     This month’s showcase is selected by Afsana Elanko     Artist and writer Dr Afsana Elanko is also an award-winning doctor, with a special interest in oncology, educationalist, leader, policy maker  and innovator. Part of the Write On! team for the last couple of years, she combines a...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print      This month’s listener contribution is an original monologue written and performed by Jeff Tullin.    Jeff lives in the East Midlands and is a member of the Derbyshire Script Writers group, and the Hasland Theatre Company Chesterfield. He retired from a lifetime career in IT a few ye...

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

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our October interview is with Rouhi Shafii    Rouhi Shafii is a sociologist, author, translator and women and human rights activist. She has published a number of books in both English and Persian.   Since the early nineties, she has presented papers on Iran in various venues including...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   This month’s showcase is selected by Charlotte Maddox.  Charlotte is the Prize Manager at The Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation,  a literature and literacy charity, championing “adventure” as a genre. The foundation runs the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and supports new write...

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our listener contribution this month is from Millie Murray.  Born in 1958 to Jamaican parents. Millie has lived all of her life in the east of London.  She writes fiction and non-fiction for both young people and adults. Her first attempt at short story writing, ‘The Escape’, was publis...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our writing tips for October are from Daisy Buchanan and Andreas Loizou of the Margate Bookie Literary Festival.  The festival runs from 19th to 22nd October in the town of Margate in Kent. You can find out more about the festival by visiting the website here  https://www.margatebookie...

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 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...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our showcase this month is selected and introduced by Thomas Nixon.    Thomas is a writer from the North of England, specialising in Flash Fiction storytelling.  His work is regularly featured in Write On Magazine, while he has written scripts for several stories in Jay Sykes' “Sum...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Content Warning : This podcast contains descriptions of violence as depicted in Matthew Di Paoli's novel "Holliday"   Our September listener contribution is from Mathew Di Paoli.  Matthew’s novel “Holliday” follows the life of the legendary 1880s gambler and gunslinger, D...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print     Priscilla is a British author and teacher of creative writing who lives between Ireland and Spain. Born to a Yugoslav mother and English father, she was 19 when war broke out in her mother’s country. She wrote her Sarajevo-set debut novel  Black Butterflies  (Duckworth, 2022) to unde...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print     This month's interview is with playwright, actor, comedian and scriptwriter Gill Adams.  In a highly successful career Gill has had numerous stage and radio plays produced.  She has been writer in residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and at the University of Hull and won a F...

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   In this special Showcase edition, we feature work by the winners of three Pen to Print writing competitions.  The winners were announced at our awards evening in July with audio recordings made to share with the audience on the evening.   The first piece is the winning poem which is by...

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

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

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print     Our July interview is with poet and novelist Brian Bilston.  Brian has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate. He won the 2015 Great British Write Off poetry prize for a poem disguised in a Venn diagram. His first published work, ‘You Took The Las...

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print     Our July showcase is selected by Dr Afsana Elanko   Artist and writer Dr Afsana Elanko is also an award-winning doctor, with a special interest in oncology, she is an educationalist, leader and innovator. Part of the Write On! team for the last couple of years, she combines a passion f...

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

Thank you for listening to Write On!  Audio , the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our July writing tips are from poet and write on contributor Mary Walsh.  Mary's poems have been published in collections such as The Great British Write Off, and a Gardening Anthology for Forward Press as well as being featured in the Royal Society of Literature newspaper.     You...

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 bo...