Spoken Label

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) making her debut, Sophia Elan. Currently based in Turkey, but will be moving to France, Sophia, a University of Chicago Law School alum and former corporate lawyer, left her career to feed her soul. “Sicilian Seductions” is the first novel in Sophia’s 7-part Mediterranean-based "Happily Ever Now" collection, a testament to the power o...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Andy N for a change being interviewed by Amanda (the wife) for a change talking about his new novel ‘Death’. Andy N is the author of ten poetry collections, thelast being ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’ and is the co-host of Chorlton’s Spoken Word night ‘Speak Easy’. He is in the bands Ocean in a Bottle and Polly Oceanand...

Latest up and the first Podcast from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features Karen Kendrick. Karen is a writer and creative writing teacher from the North West of England. She writes poetry and fiction which straddle the boundary between reality and fantasy. She lives in Astley, Greater Manchester with her husband, two sons, a dog and a snake, and many plants. Afterwards is her first novel...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) making her debut features Juliette Tomlinson discussing her debut novel "Longford". Longford is set in 1864, and the great city of Manchester was Cottonopolis, rising with the sound of industry, and the boom of a hundred mills. At the heart of its energies was John Rylands. ‘the greatest merchant prince the world has ever seen’. This...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making his debut the wonderful Mervin M. Francis. Mervin is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent being Life, Dreams and Challenges, a r a reflective and insightful exploration of life;s myriad hurdles and aspirations. Mervin asdvises he began his journey with Book of Dreams where he established himself as a whim...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her debut, Rachel Wilton. Rachel Wilton is a artist from Liverpool and a member of the Giz a Word Collective also from Liverpool. Rachel can be found on Instagram :- https://www.instagram.com/anne.whatt.designs.0151/ Giz a Word can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/gizaword.collective/ OR https://www.facebook.com/profile.ph...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Andrea Hailwood, author of The Friendly Show series. The Friendly Show series is a ongoing series of books where guided by the Stories of the Ancestors, the sceptical squirrels are on a fairy tale adventure to uncover truths, mysteries and secrets about themselves, their environment and their relationship...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend, Goodnighttheskye. Goodnighttheskye (they/them) is a Leeds-based poet and spoken word artist best known for wearing black and spending too much time in the woods. Permanently preoccupied with what we keep under the bed, their work explores themes of queerness, chronic illness and childhood with a healthy dose o...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist / Writer Podcast) features Dr Orna Tsultem. Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem is a scholar of the art and culture of Mongolia. She has served as a curator of Mongolian art at the international level since 1997. Her curated exhibits have been shown at Kasumi Tsukuba Center in Tsukuba, Japan, Frauen Museum in Bonn, Germany, E&J Frankel Gallery in New York City, Worth...

Fresh up today on Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features an exclusive chat with Sheila Seal from the recently reformed 'The Man from Delmonte'. The Man from Delmonte are an independent band from Manchester, England, formed in the mid-1980s. Band members included Mike West (vocals and acoustic guitar), Sheila Seal (bass), Martin Vincent (guitar and harmonica), and Howard Goody (drums). The...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend tea buff, weird fiction aficionado and abstracted songwriter, Eric Loveland Heath, professionally known as E.L. Heath. In this return on Spoken Label, we review Eric's releases on Plenty Wenlock Records and Wayside and Woodland Records over this year, and also his venturing into publishing with his first book "...

Latest Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) is perhaps our strangest to date features Kateryna Kei talking about a real life mystery of a book behind Casey Adams and a journal he left behind at the Hague Hotel. The book is described as " Imagine stumbling upon someone’s stolen diary while traveling in a foreign country. Imagine reading it and falling in love with the story within – a deeply moving s...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features the return of our friend, Lily Massey. Lily Massey began writing poetry at the age of fourteen as a hobby, and has loved it ever since achieving the Young Laureate position for Staffordshire enabled her to really develop her craft and become a part of the poetry scene and community that spans across the county and further afield. Her poems...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Emma Smith. Emma is an autistic and bipolar poet and writer from Bath, UK. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and has published work in Canary Collective, Lunate Journal, The Occult Digest, Vellichor Lit and many more. Her work is often confessional in nature, exploring themes of trauma, rebirth, neu...

Latest up from Spoken Label making her debut is the wonderful Connie Rigby. Connie Rigby was born in Delph, Oldham and is currently studying MA Creative Writing, BA Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures in Manchester. She can be contacted via email : connielouiserigbypoetry@gmail.com

Bonus Episode from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poetry Podcast) featuring the return of our friend Peter Topping talking about a new fund raising campaign for the visually-impaired in South Manchester (UK) with a new poetry book. More details about this can be seen: JustGiving https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/free-books?utm_term=Z7KAJn87y Link to YouTube video of sample page in book http...

Latest up from Spoken Label features the return of our friend, the wonderful Quigley CB (Also known as Quigley Cryan Brockbank) As of typing, Quigley is a Manchester-based writer, whose work typically combines horror and elements from folk tales with an absurdist sense of humour. She has had work published in the likes of Spellbinder and has been featured on All FM and the BBC. Her first play, Exi...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the return of our friend, Charlotte Faulconbridge. Charlotte Faulconbridge is an autistic and chronically ill prize-winning poet, published author, musician and TEDx performer. Her book, Too High to Function, which tells the story of her life on the autistic spectrum has sold in over 20 countries, on every continent, and reached n...

* Bonus Episode * Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast / Poetry) features the return of our friend, Kate Jenkinson. Dr Kate Jenkinson is scientist and poet reconciled and is one of a handful of LinkedIN Business Poets. She likes hats, writes about the many ones she wears (Mother, Daughter, Friend, Coach, entrepreneur) and she enjoys performing at open mics and slams since the pandemic...

Latest up from Spoken Label features making his debut, the wonderful Edward Little. Edward Little is a writer based in Liverpool who publishes fiction as well as performs spoken word poetry. His creative vent, Giz a Word: Creative Collective, runs once a month in the city. More about Edward can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/edward.little.184

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Lesedi Letsoalo. Lesedi Letsoalo is a 20-year-old South African writer, currently studying Accounting Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. My Grief - Booked is her first solo book and was written after her grandmother, who had been her primary caregiver/guardian since she was an infant, pa...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) features making her debut, the amazing Linda Cosgriff. Linda advises her poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, textbooks, shops, galleries, ezines, and on BBC Radio. They have been set to music, turned into art, and sent to Mars and for several years, she edited a small church magazine. She advises writes occasional articles for one website and...

Next up from Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) making his debut features the wonderful Chris Platt. Chris Platt advises he has been writing stories ever since he can remember and has written hundreds of stories and two novels. Alongside this, he has been writing poetry since 2023. He lives in Manchester with his wife and his black Labrador. His stories can be found on the following websites, Storystar...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Chat Podcast) making her debut is Hannah Parry. Hannah Parry trained as a paediatric nurse in the UK. Her first novel Winter's Bite, won first prize in the 12+ section at the Winchester Writers' Festival in June 2012. Fever Quest, the sequel, won the Write Historical Fiction Monthly Masterpiece and was longlisted for the MSLexia Children's Novel prize i...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poetry Podcast) features the amazing Peter Topping. Peter is a local artist in the Chorlton Area and has worked on several books with historian Andrew Simpson. He has also written his own book entitled “Smile Dammit Smile!!! – Chorlton”. He has created many “History Walls” and art installations around Chorlton together with Manchester historian Andrew...