Soundart Radio's Creative Writing Programme

broadcast fortnightly on Wednesday evenings from 8.00 to 8.30

102.5 fm in the Totnes and Dartington area worldwide on http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/

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please submit your work to submissions@soundartradio.org.uk

short fiction from 250 to 3,000 words

any style, any theme, any voice

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Show #13 12 - 07 - 2011

The last show of the season, and packed, with stories form Anna Lunk, Michelle Heatley and Jennifer Moore.

I would like to make a further call for submissions for the autumn season. Obviously, the show feeds on your words, without which you would just be listening to me banging on in some sort of weird vanity show. Not that you would be listening, if that ever came to pass, so it would be a great boon to us all if I was able to gather up a few good armfuls of submissions over the summer from which to draw upon for the next set of shows, so please keep the stories coming in.

Riptide opportunity

a publishing opportunity that should interest many of you. Riptide is a highly regarded literary journal put out by Exeter University and it is currently accepting submissions for its next issue. Now the deadline is the end of this month, so you need to get your skates on, but what makes this particularly relevant, is that they are looking for Devon-themed stories, up to 5,000 words, and short Devon-based memoir pieces. This is a submissions guideline from their website:

Interpret ‘Devon’ as you wish – Devon past, present and future, Devon from the outside or the inside, its topography, its cities, towns, villages and people. Set your story in a real part of Devon or in your imagined version. We want to be surprised. As always we’re looking not for the obvious, but for the undercurrent.

Anyway, for more details look at the website on www.riptidejournal.co.uk

Well, that’s it for now. Thirteen shows, 31 stories from 18 authors covering so much territory and so many viewpoints. It has been a privilege to present them. I would also especially like to thank all our readers for the great effort and professionalism they have given the show, to Chris, Jan, Jonathan, Martin, Jenny, Dot, Veronica, Alan and, of course, Amanada.

I hope we will all be back in the Autumn, but, that will depend on your contributions, so keep them coming in.

Have a great summer

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Collective Perspectives

Here is some more information on the Collective Perspectives project I mentioned in the last show. Well worth a visit.

SpinDrift Dance Company presents
Collective Perspectives Week

11th–16th July across the South Hams
• Forging connections between art forms •
• Facilitating creativity for local communities •

Photographers, dancers, musicians, print-makers and singers offer their interpretations of Dartmouth Harbour and Church of St Peter, Revelstoke, near Noss Mayo


Exhibition of all professional and schools work
11th–16th July • Kingsbridge Community College • 3.30–7pm • Free

Installation
Wednesday 13th July • Dartmouth Harbour • 5pm • Free

Performances of artists and local schools
Friday 15th July • Kingsbridge Community College • 6pm • £3

Performances of professional and community groups
Saturday 16th July • Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman, Revelstoke
• near Noss Mayo • 6pm • Donations on the door

For more information, contact Suzie West at: suzie@spindriftdance.org.uk