Show #12

Stories from Jane Sawyer and Hana Sklenkova

I mentioned a web-based short story competition that might be well worth considering- the deadline is September 15 and the word limit is a generous 5,000. Details can be found on the website www.theshortstory.net

Also, there is an opportunity to hear one of tonight's authors, Hana Sklenkova, reading some of her work as part of the Collective Perspectives Project, drawing inspiration from local sites to inform a variety of pieces and performances. Hana will be reading at Kingsbridge Community College on July 15/16.

One more show to go before the summer break but please keep the work coming in. It would be great to have a solid pool of stories to draw from for the autumn season.

Show #11

Stories from Dot Spink, Alan Brown and Carolyn Eddy.

Two of the stories were a product of a Soundart Radio workshop helping writers work with sound recording - there will be another one of these workshops in the Autumn so contact Soundart Radio if you are interested. (www.soundartradio.org.uk)

Also, details of the writing competition held by the Kingsbridge Oxfam bookshop can be found at www.addmysupport.to/oxfamkingsbridgebooks/

For more information on the Chudleigh Literary festival on Wednesday 13 July, which looks like being a great day, and includes a morning workshop with poet Chris Waters - who I can highly recommend - email huxbear_barton@btopenworld.com

For anyone interested in the book I recommended on the show - it is The Art of Writing Fiction, by Andrew Cowan - out in paperback now.

Show #10

A story-packed show tonight - two contrasting and powerful shorts from Anna Lunk and a trip back to wartime Dartmoor and a farmyard crisis in The Cowman by James Stevenson.
Now up on the listen again service.