Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) making her debut features Charlotte Wood. Charlotte advises she is a writer of all things spooky, macabre, and downright sinister. Charlotte has been a fan of the horror genre since discovering it at age 13 and has sought it out in all its forms ever since. Charlotte has written many scary short stories throughout her life and Heather (her debut novel) turned into a full-length novel by accident. Heather is the story about Fern and when...

Latest Spoken Label (Author / Writer Podcast) features making their debut, Neda Aria. Neda's bio advises "| write, I create, I build worlds in my imagination. Writing is my soul, creating is my passion. I write to explore the human mind, | write to reveal what's beneath that beautiful mask of yours. I uncover the darkness within. I dare to free words, I dare to be brave, I dare to say what others afraid to say. Author of ENARO, IDEO: The Bitter Recipes of the Truth, Feminomaniacs, and...

Special episode for Spoken Label (Author Chat) features the return of our friend, Nicola Worswick. Nicola advises "I first started writing and illustrating my children’s book series when I was 13. The stories follow the big bad pirate Captain Cuthbert and his long suffering cat, Scat, whom I guarantee you will fall in love with. Captain Cuthbert on the other hand is bossy, greedy and selfish and always lands himself in trouble. From the age of 13 I suffered lack of confidence due to...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Writer Chat Podcast) features Janet Sternburg. Janet Sternburg is an American writer of essays, poetry and memoir, as well as a fine art photographer. Her new book, Looking at Mexico/Mexico Looks Back (DISTANZ Press), is a bilingual collaboration in photography and words across the Mexican/US border. She lives between Los Angeles and San Miguel de Allende. More details about Janet can be found at: https://janetsternburg.com/

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Poet / Writer Podcast) features Chiara Mason. Chiara is a lifestyle blogger, host of The chiaragoesglobal Podcast, and award-winning author. Through her blog, podcast, and poetry book, she aims to authentically share stories and connect with others. At chiaragoesglobal, we hope to foster an inspired and uplifted community where people can show up as their full selves, be seen where they are at, and feel hopeful for the future. Her website is:...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Drew Garty. Drew Garty is a rather nomadic Scotsman (still kilt wearing) who currently resides inManchester and London. He has been writing for several years and has performed at a number of venues throughout Manchester and the North West and recently debuted in London. His work is based on everyday life observations of people and circumstances with a heavy leaning on nostalgia or the unusual (check his work entitled Kilt...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Rhian Elizabeth. Rhian Elizabeth is a trainee counsellor and a writer. She was born in 1988 in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales, and now lives in Cardiff. Her debut novel, Six Pounds Eight Ounces, was published in 2014 by Seren Books and is currently being adapted for TV, and her poetry collection, the last polar bear on earth, was published in 2018 by Parthian Books. Her prose and poetry have been listed in various...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist Podcast) features the return of our friend, Isabelle Kenyon. Isabelle Kenyon (Belle to me) is a Manchester writer and the author of 5 chapbooks including Growing Pains (Indigo Dreams).  She has had work and articles published internationally and newspapers such as The Somerville Times and The Bookseller. She is also the founder of Fly on the Wall Press. Fly on the Wall is a social enterprise company and a not for profit publisher, based in...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Artist Podcast) features the singer Dogstar Rose.Dogstar Rose originates from North London and now lives in the Wirral and delivers her music with an inimitable style of sleaze and grace. Dogstar is a singer/songwriter of alternative value, and fronts the band 'futurejack'. Her performance evokes the emotion of a hard rock, punk pop, soulful personality.Links include:https://www.facebook.com/DogstarRosehttps://www.facebook.com/futurejack

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Writer Podcast) features Arini Vlotman Arini advises she "a romance fanatic, book worm, book hoarder and writer. Writers are my superheroes; readers are my tribe. I’m a people’s person and a wordy nerd so I can find comfort in almost any space but there is nothing quite like being at home with my husband, son and fur babies.Living in Johannesburg, South Africa has given me a slightly quirky world view- we laugh at ourselves all the time here so...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features the wonderful M. L. Liebler. M. L. Liebler is an internationally known & widely published Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer. He was named The 2017-2018 Murray E. Jackson Scholar in the Arts Award at Wayne State University. Liebler is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream (Wayne State University Press 2008)...

Latest Spoken Label (Poetry Podcast) is a various artist Poetry Podcast co-hosted with ML Liebler (whose own podcast will follow next) features some student and a fellow young creative writing faculty member. Writers featured are: Alexis Ball is a 20-year-old English and creative writing student at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. They are passionate about poetry and have been writing since they learned the alphabet. Alexis hopes to one day work for an editing and...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Poetry / Spoken Word Podcast) features making her debut, Amanda Crundall. Amanda advises she "began to write again in January 2022 after her friends urged her to write down how she was feeling as a therapeutic outlet; so she did. She has rediscovered her creative self, amongst being a busy mummy and working life. Amanda works as a full time heart failure nurse specialist and is a single mother to two amazing children. Surprising many of her friends how she finds...

Latest up from Spoken Label features Patrick Widdess. Patrick Widdess is the founder and presenter of Poetry Non-Stop. He was born in Cambridge and now lives in Norwich where he works as a production journalist and fills his time writing, podcasting, taking photos and performing improv comedy. Patrick’s poetry and prose has appeared in Agenda, Cake, The Interpreter’s House, The Guardian and Orbis among other publications. He has also written reviews and features for Clash Music, Drunken...

Latest up from Spoken Label features the return of our friend, the amazing Grant Curnow. Grant Curnow is an alternative comedian/ tragic novelty folk singer – amateur time lord. Based in Manchester, Grant has performed 3 full length shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the PBH Fringe: Amateur Time Lord Hour (2016),  A New Folk (2018), and Salvador Dalek (20220. Currently touring Salvador Dalek throughout the UK and has played various comedy festivals (Leicester Comedy Festival,...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Podcast) features Dr 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 made the poetry community more accessible. In 2022 she performed her TEDx talk Poetry Never Abandons Us and she enjoys attending and headlining...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) featuring making her debut, the amazing Hannah Ledlie. Hannah is an Edinburgh-born, Manchester-based writer, interested in form and futurism. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the BBC Young Writers’ Award, and in 2019 she was a winner of Penguin’s ‘Platform Pride’ poetry competition. Her work has featured in a number of publications, including Ambit, Gutter, and Magma. In 2022, Hannah completed her MSt in Creative Writing at the...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Author Chat Podcast) features making his debut, Adrian Slatcher. Adrian Slatcher was born in Staffordshire in 1967. He studied English at Lancaster University, and creative writing at the University of Manchester. He has co-edited several literary magazines, and is a trustee of Castlefield Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Manchester. His fiction has featured in a number of anthologies, including Best British Short Stories. He has published two poetry...

Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word Pdocast) making his debut features from Glossop, the amazing Danny McLoughlin More about Danny can be found at: https://www.instagram.com/betweenthisthoughtandthat/ More about Danny can be found at:https://lnkd.in/ef3Z8rCSEmail: [email protected] advises he orginates from the Liverpool and appeared at a number of poet events including the Frog & Bucket, Hove, and Chorlton etc over 20 years ago but then for many reasons didn't perform since,...

Latest Podcast from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Lynn Walton. Lynn advises "I am a Salford based poet and some of my work centres on this inspiring city and nearby Manchester. My work moves from serious to amusing to risqué. One of my favourite styles is fusing topics that don’t normally belong together. I perform at a variety of events  and venues and occasionally on Salford City Radio, and have been published in several anthologies including one by Virago Press....

Latest up from Spoken Label features the wonderful Nayma Chamchoun. Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan, a self taught writer and poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities.Nayma is an active member of London's vibrant Poetry and Spoken Word community, the international Poetry community online...

* Poetry contains topics not suitable for all * The latest Spoken Label Session (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) features Amy B Garratt. Amy advises she is "I’m the creator/co-host of a spoken word group ‘Rabbiting On’ based in The Rabbit Hole Bookshop in Brigg North Lincolnshire. I collaborated with the bookshop to run/compere the spoken word stage at ‘No Limits Festival’ at Normanby Hall in September 2022/2023. My poetry was included in ‘Of Earth And Sky’ 2021 installation by Luke Jerram...

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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Label Podcast) and making his debut is the amazing Steve Pottinger. Steve is a poet, author, and workshop facilitator, and a founding member of Wolverhampton arts collective ‘Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’. His work has featured in poetry magazines and anthologies and he is a regular contributor to online poetry platforms. He has performed at Ledbury and StAnza poetry festivals and the Edinburgh Free Fringe, and in venues across the country, from...