Spoken Label

Spoken Label

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Spoken Label episodes

  • Nicola Worswick (Spoken Label, June 2024)

    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 dyslexia, focus on academics at school and being working class. Creativity always seemed to be dismissed by comments like “that’s good but… you need to improve your maths”.
    Being working class also limited my options, being on minimum wage meant working long hours. So after writing and illustrating three books I gave up on them.
    I rediscovered the books in my 30s and I am so glad I did. I had a better payed job by then and my on look on life and confidence had changed over the years. Why can’t someone with dyslexia write and illustrate books? I could just get an editor to check my writing. I already knew an editor who was also a good friend, so I tentatively showed him the books. His response was not what I was expecting and is probably why I am here writing this now. Not only did he think the books and illustrations were great but he thought they were good enough to publish. He asked if he could send them to his publisher who immediately replied saying they were interested in publication. The publisher then let me down, explaining that they didn’t have time to take on a new writer. The failure issues started creeping back. Luckily family and friends made me think straight again and I gained confidence in the fact that a publisher had been interested in my books, and so after much research, I decided to self publish. I would like to use my experience to inspire people to reach to their aspirations.
    Writing and illustrating the children’s book series is a hobby I love and to have strangers buy and enjoy my books is an added bonus.
    Join my Facebook page www.facebook.com/CaptainCuthbertScattheCat
    Gifts and Merchandise www.redbubble.com/people/scattheca"
    Her amazon page is https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B07TY23P7K/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=c5b6d505-05a4-418b-9c6a-5ce3bc5a06a6

    26 min
  • Janet Sternburg (Spoken Label, June 2024)

    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/

    1 hr 5 min
  • Chiara Mason (Spoken Label, June 2024)

    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:

    https://chiaragoesglobal.com/

    38 min
  • Drew Garty (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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 Day, Stage Name).

    Heavily biassed towards humour with a number of pieces reflecting LGBTQ+ issues (Under theRainbow).Drew has been published in various anthologies but maintains a discipline with his writing which observes a personal objective.

    Generally eschewing but not dismissing publication, Drew prefers the intimacy of a live performance and an engaging audience.

    Also an accomplished photographer he is examining a future of combining his writing with some images.You can contact

    Drew can be contacted via email on [email protected]

    43 min
  • Rhian Elizabeth (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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 competitions and prizes and appeared in many magazines and anthologies, as well as being featured on Radio 4’s PM programme. She was named by the welsh agenda as one of Wales’ Rising Stars- one of 30 people working to make Wales better over the next 30 years. She is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and Writer in Residence at the Coracle International Literary Festival in Tranås, Sweden. girls etc is her latest book of poems, published by Broken Sleep Books.

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    More details can be found at: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/rhian-elizabeth-girls-etc

    50 min
  • Isabelle Kenyon (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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 Manchester. We publish high quality anthologies on pressing issues, chapbooks and poetry products, from exceptional poets around the globe, with socially conscious themes.

    This Podcast primarily talks about her debut novel 'The Dark within them'.

    The Dark within them is described as "In this gripping psychological thriller, faith-healer Amber thinks she's found peace in Lehi, the small Mormon town she's moved her family to. But when a death affects her family, her safe haven shatters. As the tight-knit community closes ranks to protect its secrets at all costs, Amber's world unravels. With her beliefs shaken and nothing feeling certain anymore, she's faced with an impossible choice: take a leap of faith to protect her loved ones, or risk losing everything by exposing the truth.

     

    "Luring you in with promises of happily ever after, Kenyon quickly removes any feelings of comfort..." - The Northern Bookworm

     

    But how far is too far when it comes to protecting those you love?

     

    A TIGHT-KNIT MORMON COMMUNITY.

     

    BODIES BURIED IN THE GARDEN.

     

    ONE FAMILY DIVIDED.

     

    ‘intense and compelling…an enormously talented writer’ - Shabnom Khanom

     

    'a honed and beautiful writing style…not your usual psychological thriller’ - Debz Hobbs-Wyatt

     

    'A must-read for fans of Paula Hawkins or M. T. Edvarsson... A gripping, pacy thriller.'  - Northern Soul Magazine

     

    'Isolated and without even her faith to call on, Amber is left to determine how much darkness is really within her.' - The Northern Bookworm

     

    'Kenyon’s book explores themes of faith, motherhood and marriage with nuance. At the same time, the plot propels the reader forward with the claustrophobic tension of recent grip-lit classics like The Girl on the Train.' - Crime Culture Magazine"

    For more details go to: https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/

    50 min
  • Dogstar Rose (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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

    38 min
  • Arini Vlotman (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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 sometimes my sense of humor doesn’t translate into my words. Be kind, I think I’m funny!One my favourite hobbies is Fangirling (is that a thing?). Musicians, books, movies or obscure characters, when I find something that I love I delve into that world like Harry Potter diving into the Whomping Willow."

    Her debut novel is "Pretty Average".

    More details can be found at: https://arinivlotman.co.za/

    29 min
  • M. L. Liebler (Spoken Label, May 2024)

    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) featuring poems written in and about Russia, Israel, Germany, Alaska and Detroit. Wide Awake won both The Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellenceand The American Indie Book Award for 2009.

    In 2005, he was named St. Clair Shores (his hometown) first Poet Laureate. Liebler has read and performed his work in Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Russia, China, France, UK, Macao, Italy, Germany, Spain, Finland and most of the 50 States.

    M.L. Liebler has taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1980, and he is the founding director of both The National Writer's Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit's Metro Time. Liebler became the Co-Editor In 2010, he received The Barnes & Noble Poets & Writers Writers for Writers Award with Maxine Hong Kingston & Junot Diaz.

    In 2011, his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the James (Coffee House Press) was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In 2017, Liebler received a total of 4 Library of Michigan Notable Book Awards for both his new collection of poems entitled I Want to Be Once (Wayne State University Press / Made in Michigan Series) and for Heaven Was Detroit: An Anthology of Detroit Music Essays from Jazz to Hiphop (The Wayne State University Press Painted Turtle Series) Editor. Bob Seger's House: An Anthology of Michigan Short Stories (Co-Editor with Mike Delp). Both Heaven Was Detroit and Bob Seger's House are Finalist for the prestigious Forward Book Awards.

    2020 saw the release of RESPECT: Poets on Detroit Music edited by M. L. Liebler & Jim Daniels (Michigan State University Press 2020). RESPECT just received both a 2021 Tillie Olsen Award & 2021 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award. In September 2020, M. L. was awarded the Michigan Humanities Champion of the Year.

    Liebler received a Wayne State University Distinguished Scholar Award for 2024-2026. He curretly directs The WSU Humanities Commons and The Detroit Writers' Guild.

    M.L. Liebler can be contacted on his website https://www.mlliebler.com/

    57 min
  • Various (Spoken Label, April 2024)

    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 publishing company and possibly become a college professor later in life.


    Nicholas Lowengruber I've been writing poetry since 2016 after reading an excerpt from Walden, but I didn't really know what I was doing until studying under poets at Wayne State University like ML and Robert Laidler. One of my biggest regrets so far is ever reading Ezra Pound; I how I wanted to be him growing up (except without being a fascist), and I still need to take time before I learn to appreciate the respect for imagery and the capability to take an object and look at it through many different lenses that Pound instilled in me. I'm wrapping up my third year at Wayne State University, double majoring in Philosophy and English; thinking too much is a curse, and I'm learning to work with it. Regarding my more current work, I'm an e.e. cummings devotee and continuing to learn to make poetry weird, turning towards the Language movement. Currently pondering Eve's morally questionable decision to leave Caleb trapped at the end of Ex Machina after everything that they went through.


    young creative writing faculty member Robert Laidler.


    Email address for each of the writers are:


    [email protected], (ML Liebler)




    34 min

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Spoken Label is a podcast series designed to interview and record sessions from authors, poets, artists, musicians etc in North West England and beyond.