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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

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 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:

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

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

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

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

In this edition we are sharing another new feature, “Poem of the Month” in which we will share some of the poetry we've featured on this podcast over the last few years.

This month's poem is "Where is Home?" by Diya Padiya. It is read by Sally Walker Taylor….

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

In this new Write On! Audio feature we'll share episodes of other writing podcasts that our listeners may enjoy. First, we're sharing an episode of The Writers Gym, a weekly show about the process and practice of writing featuring writer and writing coach Dr Rachel Knightley alongside novelist and audio drama writer Emily Inkpen. The Writers Gym is presented by Write On Audio's producer Chris Gregory. In the edition you're about to hear the team discuss the art of giving feedback to your fellow writers and ways in which you can ask for feedback on your own work.

Thank you to The Writers Gym podcast for allowing us to share this episode. The voices you heard were Chris Gregory, Emily Inkpen and Dr Rachel Knightley. You can listen to more episodes and subscribe to the podcast by searching for The Writers Gym in your favourite podcast app or clicking on the link below

https://drrachelknightley.podbean.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!Audiois 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 March interview is with Isabelle Kenyon, the founder and owner of the award-winning Fly-On-The-Wall Press. As well as being a published author and poet, Isabelle is an expert on book editing, marketing and promotion. Isabelle is in conversation with Pen to Print’s 2023 Poetry Award winner Julie Dexterand Write On! Editor, Madeleine White.

Find out more about Isabelle’s editing and writing work, as well as her new novel ‘The Dark Within Them,’ inJulie’s digital write up of the interview:https://pentoprint.org/write-on-interviews/

You can connect with Isabelle, by following her on X, formerly twitter herehttps://twitter.com/kenyon_isabelle

And follow Fly On The Wall Press herehttps://twitter.com/fly_press

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.

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 by Jilly Henderson Long. Jilly is a published author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry and lives in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. When not writing, Jilly enjoys photography and of course, reading.

The pieces featured in this showcase are

• Alice Ayres by Greg Pidgeon
• Baby by Tavinder New
• A Place Between by May L Walsh
• Who Knows” by Jilly Henderson Long

The readers are Chris Gregory and Tiffany Clare

The music used in this showcase was composed and recorded by Chris Gregory

Find out more about Jilly Henderson Long by following her on X, formerly Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Jilly66408011

Find out more about Tiffany Clare and her acting and voice work by visiting her website herehttps://www.voicebytiffany.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!Audiois 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 March listener contribution comes from Whitney Love. Whitney Love is a wife, mother and known for her love of animals. The great outdoors is a space where she finds a lot of inspiration. Whitney always dreamed of becoming an author from a very young age, keen to story-tell on topics that would challenge her readers to see varying degrees of life and enable them to imagine what that could potentially mean for someone else. Her dream of writing has now come to life with the publication of her debut novel "She Set Him Up" which was published in January this year. For this week’s podcast we have the first chapter of the book read by Whitney herself.

You can buy a copy of Whitney’s book direct from the publisher, Troubador, herehttps://www.troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/she-set-him-up

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

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 come from Hema Macherla Hema is the author of three novels, Breeze from the River Manjeera, Blue Eyes and Letters in the Sand all of which are published by Linen Press.

If you’d like to learn more about Hema, buy her books and read her articles you can visit her website https://hemamacherla.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!Audiois an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Our February Interview is with Sharmaine Lovegrove. Sharmaine is the co-founder, managing director and publisher of Dialogue, a division of Hachette UK. She was the recipient of the Future Book Publishing Person of the year in 2018 and has also worked in television, PR, as a literary editor and bookshop owner. She is founding editor of the Black Writer’s Guild.

The interviewer is Iole Dexter who was alongside Write On! Editor, Madeleine White

Thank you to Sharmaine Lovegrove for being the subject of this months’ interview. You can find out more about Sharmaine and her work by following her on X, formerly Twitterhttps://twitter.om/sharlovegrove

And find out more about Dialogue Books which Sharmaine runs here https://www.dialoguebooks.co.uk/

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in WriteOn! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/