Poem of the Month : Where is Home by Diya Padiya : Write On! Audio Weekly

A Listener Contribution from Sebastian Elanko : Write On! Audio Weekly

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Our listener contribution this month is from poet and author Sebastian Elanko.

Sebastian Elanko is a poet, author and writer who regularly writes in two different languages. He has published work in the English and Tamil languages, including in anthologies, magazines and has had work in displayed in exhibitions. His work is currently being exhibited at the museum in London, which explores the theme of overcoming adversity by going back to the roots of our heritage. Sebastian has taught writing classes to encourage and support others and is a regular writer for the Write On magazine.

You can read more from Sebastian Elanko in this page from pen to Print

https://pentoprint.org/tag/sebastian-elanko/

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:

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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

Poem of the Month with Nicole Piscopo : Write On! Audio Weekly

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This month's poem of the month is from Nicole Piscopo - a young Maltese poet who we featured on the podcast back in 2022. Nicole Piscopo is reading her poem "Wrote a Love Letter- Turned it into an Airplane"

You can find Nicole on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/maybe_its_fate_poetry/

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

Writing Tips from Eithne Cullen and Mary Walsh : Write On! Audio Weekly

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Our writing tips this month are from Write On’s Eithne Cullen and Mary Walsh. Eithne and Mary are in conversation about the skills and inspiration writers can receive from attending writing courses.

Find out more about Pen to Print’s range of writing courses by visiting the events page of the Pen to Print website herehttps://pentoprint.org/about/events/

Find out more about Eithne Cullen by following her on X, formerly twitter herehttps://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/

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!Audiois an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

An interview with novelist Kit De Waal: Write On! Audio Weekly

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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 herehttps://www.kitdewaal.com/

To read Iole Dexter’s blog go herehttps://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:

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Thank you for listening to Write On!Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On!Audiois an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

A showcase selected by Hannah Rooney: Write On! Audio Weekly

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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 Mindby Gloria Maloney

Parahumanity(excerpt) by Hannah Hoare

Vitalite Nights(excerpt) by Kristine Allen

Hecklerby Hannah Rooney

The Giftby 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 tohttps://www.instagram.com/hannahrooney.x/

Hannah referenced publishers andcreative writing organisation,Write-On-The-Tyne, run by Helen Aitchison who has also appeared on this podcast. To find out more go towww.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 herehttp://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!Audiois an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England