Spoken Label

Spoken Label

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Spoken Label episodes

  • Katie Chonacas (Spoken Label, November 2022)

    Katie Chonacas is a globally outstanding Greek-American actor with over two decades of experience in the Hollywood entertainment industry.

    She is "a multi-disciplinary artist who utilizes her voice to inspire change and transformation in people who want to make an impact on the world." and has extensive experience acting in films, TV shows, theatre, voice acting, is the Podcast host of 'She's all over the place". 

    Her debut poetry book "A Lover's Fairytale" came out in 2021.

    Her website is: https://www.chonacas.com/

    45 min
  • Hannah Ahle (Spoken Label, November 2022)

    New from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Poet Podcast) features the fantastic Hannah Ahle.


    Hannah is a British Palestinian based in Manchester, UK. She is a writer, illustrator, marathon runner and activist. She was a closet poet for most of her adult life until Spring 2021, when she began reciting and posting to Instagram and taking her work to live audiences a year later.
    Her work is inspired by her life experiences and observations of various aspects of the human condition.

    You can follow Hannah on Instagram at @hannahahle


    30 min
  • Kathryn Lund (Spoken Label, November 2022)

    Latest session from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Writer Chat Podcast) features the amazing Kathryn Lund, author off "The things we left sleeping". 

    Kathryn's bio advises "won the Blackwell Prize for her MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes. As a writer with an invisible disability she often uses her work to explore issues of physical and mental health, as well as how we construct the conscious world around us. With undergrad and post grad qualifications in archaeology and teaching, she is continuously fascinated with how we make our worlds, inhabit them and re-express them.  Kathryn is deeply influenced by her environmentalism, feminism and queer identity. She often explores themes of memory and loss, deeply influenced by the death of her mother within six weeks of a fatal cancer diagnosis. Her father is a cancer survivor.  Despite many years spent at universities in the south she believes her voice is strongly northern. She is based in York and can sometimes be found at open mic nights in the city.  

    You can contact Kathryn about her writing at:  [email protected]  Her book can be found at all the usual places and she has a website at: http://kathrynlundtheauthor.co.uk/

    45 min
  • Isabelle Pandora Byrne (Spoken Label, November 2022)

    Latest Spoken Label (Poet / Artist Podcast) talks to the wonderful Isabelle Pandora Byrne, author of 'Pandora's Ruin'.  

    More about Isabelle can be found at: linktr.ee/isabellepbyrne  

    Her book 'Pandora's Ruin' can be ordered from Waterstones and many other places.  

    #MentalHealthpoetry #MentalHealth #BentKeyPublishing #BentKey #IsabellePandoraBryne

    49 min
  • Christina Alagaratnam (Spoken Label, November 2022)
    Following from her excellent preview episode of her play 'Playfight' a few months back at Peckham Fringe, today sees us return today to talk to our friend Christina Alagaratnam. 

    Christina describes herself as "I'm a writer, author, playwright and podcaster. I've published my work on Amazon and work on the London theatre scene. Now, I run my own podcast called The Night Writer, creating content for the insomniacs."

    In this full length session, we talk about Christina's background as a writer, how Playfight went at Peckham Fringe and news about various awards she has won over the summer in various countries.

    More about Christina can be found at:

    chrissysnotebook.com

    twitter.com/ChrissyA_92
    www.instagram.com/xchristina.writer/

    36 min
  • Kris Sumner (Spoken Label, October 2022)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Writer) Podcast features a special episode featuring Kris Sumner just in time for Halloween.


    Kris Sumner is a member off "Soul Sisters Paranormal".

    "'Soul Sisters Paranormal" began as a group of sisters and friends who travel to some of the most reportedly haunted locations across the U.S., as well as private homes and businesses, to investigate claims of paranormal activity. In 2020, the group became primarily twin sisters Jenny and Kristy investigating for the team.

    ​Their Website is: www.soulsistersparanormal.com

    35 min
  • Rich Davenport (Spoken Label, October 2022)

    Latest Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Spoken Word Podcast) features our returning friend Rich Davenport talking about his latest book "Horsetrousers".

    Rich Davenport is a comedy poet, stand-up comedian and musician from exotic Bolton, in the UK. Inspired by Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Billy Connolly, John Cooper-Clarke, Robin Williams, Benjamin Zephanaiah, Victoria Wood, Lenny Henry, and by his friend and fellow Boltonian, the late Hovis Presley, Rich has gigged all over the UK, spreading mirth and making loud noises. No, he’s never heard of him either. Rich was described in one review as a “no-nonsense Northerner,” which is ridiculous, because nonsense is his business, and business is good.   Rich was first encouraged to compile a book of his poems of extreme gormlessness by Hovis Presley. After accidentally winning a couple of poetry slams, other encouraging individuals said the same thing. And now, finally,  Rich's first book, GORMLESS is available now from Chinbeard books at the link below with fabulous illustrations from the marvellous Minty B. A percentage from every book will be donated to the ME Association.

    Horsetrousers is his second book.

    More details about Rich including how to purchase his book can be found here: - https://www.richdavenport.com/

    37 min
  • Christina Stoddard (Spoken Label, October 2022)

    Latest up from Spoken Label (Author / Artist / Spoken Word Podcast) is the amazing, multi talented Christine Stoddard.

    Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-American writer, actor, director, and artist creating books, films, plays, murals, etc. She founded Quail Bell Magazine and Quail Bell Press & Productions. Her books include Heaven is a Photograph, Hello, New York: The Living And Dead, Naomi & The Reckoning, Desert Fox by the Sea, Belladonna Magic, and Water for the Cactus Woman, among others. In its review of Stoddard's work, Glassworks wrote that "[Stoddard] tells stories in magical and hauntingly beautiful ways." In a Poetry Foundation/Luna Luna Magazine feature, her hybrid poetry and photography book Water for the Cactus Woman was praised for its portrayal of "the fragmented nature of Latinidad." This same book placed in a university-wide competition across academic disciplines for work concerning families, winning the Nyman Family Award during Stoddard's time as an MFA candidate at The City College of New York. Old Dominion University invited her to be its 2021 Hispanic Heritage Month keynote speaker for her non-fiction book, Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia.

    Supported by a 2020 Space Grant from 1708 Gallery, Stoddard premiered her first feature, Sirena's Gallery, an arthouse feature, after directing shorts such as Bottled, Virtual Caress, Butterflies, Drunken History, and Brooklyn Burial. In June 2022, she directed her nationally award-winning play, "Mi Abuela, Queen of Nightmares" at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City. 

    Previously, she was the first-ever artist-in-residence at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in Manhattan and served as an inaugural AnkhLave Arts Alliance artist fellow at the Queens Botanical Garden. She was part of the first cohort of resident artists at Woodlawn Plantation, originally part of George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, and Brooklyn Public Library-Eastern Parkway Branch. The Puffin Foundation awarded her individual artist grants in photography and film. She is one of the subjects in the documentaries "Artists Unmasked" (dir. Dario Mohr) and "Poetry, New York" (dir. Patrick Pfister).

    Stoddard is a graduate of VCUarts and The City College of New York.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York and regularly produces plays and showcases for the Broadway Comedy Club in Manhattan.

    Her website is: http://www.worldofchristinestoddard.com/

    44 min
  • Annie O'Neill Stein (Spoken Label, October 2022)
    Today's Spoken Label Podcast (Author / Artist / Spoken Word Podcast) features extracts from the debut novel by the late Annie O'Neill Stein.
    I was contacted to feature Annie for October's 2022 Spoken Label back at the end of August 2022 regarding her debut novel 'Exit Wounds'.
    Sadly, Annie sadly passed away before I was able to speak to her and so instead as a tribute to this talented writer are several extracts off her novel by Susan Blakely in tribute to Annie.
    Exit Wounds is the story off Laura "Born to shanty Irish on one side and Park Avenue privilege on the other, Laura navigates a turbulent childhood filled with the alcohol-fueled abuse of her volatile father and her mother's excessive drinking. As the middle child of three girls, she assigns herself the role of her mother's protector, who dies when Laura is thirteen, leaving her heartbroken and adrift.
    Insecure, anxious, and fearful, she tries drugs, random sex, and a sequence of lovers. Along the way she becomes a successful painter and has a bad first marriage. Nothing however seems to assuage her emptiness and her sense of loss. Eventually, she marries a caring man and has a loving daughter. It is only at the end of her life and by way of an unusual and unexpected turn of events that she is finally able to make peace with herself, to let go of the feeling that she never really grieved, and said goodbye to her beloved mother, and to appreciate that though we work at love and acceptance, sometimes the most wonderful experiences in our lives come in unanticipated and unsought ways.
    Annie O'Neill Stein has an engaging voice- quirky, funny, full of original observations and expressions, as she adroitly explores the mysteries of the human heart."
    Native New Yorker Annie O’Neill Stein moved to Los Angeles in the early eighties as an actress. After many small parts in TV series, from Miami Vice to Charlie’s Angels, she decided to follow her true passion, writing.
    Being accepted to Sewanee Writers Conference to study with Alice McDermott planted the seed for Exit Wounds, her first novel.
    Annie has written for several magazines, More, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Distinction, Folks and was a regular contributor to The Huffington Post for several years."
    Because I tend to read fiction cinematically, I saw each chapter of Exit Wounds as fully realized scenes in a movie.
    It isn’t a happy book and it’s not a sad book. It’s a brave, raw story of redemption infused with clever and witty black Irish humor.
    -- Moritz Borman, Producer Snowden, Terminator Salvation, Basic, Savages
    It manages to be harrowing and hopeful in equal measure. The scenes of a childhood defined by a brutal drunk beating a young girl's dying mother are as scarifying as any coming of age novel I’ve read, and the scenes of a life lived in defiance of the script she was handed is no less than thrilling.
    -- Tom Lutz, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Creative Writing, UC Riverside/Founding Editor in Chief and Publisher of the Los Angeles Review of Books
    Exit Wounds, Annie O’Neill Stein’s debut novel will draw you in, tug at your heart, and help you appreciate the subtle pleasure of black irish humor.
    She hooks you in with her original voice and takes you on a journey without sugar coating or apology and helps one understand the importance of an examined life.
    -- Bob Wallace, Former Managing Editor, Rolling Stone
    Annie O’Neill Stein’s novel Exit Wounds is a striking debut. Her writing is sensory, emotionally honest, and darkly comic. Like Laura, her main character, Stein is a rule breaker. She takes the reader on a wild and satisfying ride.
    -- Jan Cherubin, author of Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020, The Orphan's Daughter
    thepermanentpress.com/products/exit-wounds
    www.annieoneillstein.com
    37 min
  • Bonus Episode: Skylar J Wynter Live, Double indemnity, Stockport 05 October 2022 (Spoken Word)

    Bonus Episode today from recent Spoken Label guest Skylar J Wynter recorded live in Stockport. 

    Skylar J Wynter is the best-selling Author of poetry and flash fiction collection, Pieces of Humanity released on October 10th, 2020 to align with National Mental Health month.After an incident which changed the course of her life in 2014, Wynter turned to various art forms to process the trauma and make sense of her new self. She shares her poetry in the hopes it will help others find peace within their own realities and encourage humanity to reach out to each other with decency.Skylar resides in the Perth Hills of Western Australia, where she pens her creations overlooking national parkland and when she is not writing, she likes to create beautiful things with her limited jewellery making and sculpting skills, and serene spaces in her garden. She loves a great book, a sunny day and witnessing humans behaving decently. She hates cooking, and injustice, hopes Covid-19 disappears and online poetry events don't, and that someone finds a way to make celery taste like cheesecake.

    More about Skylar can be found here:


    linktr.ee/Skylarjwynter?fbclid=IwAR04baWqTg4rbHDbtPu143yilAerODi38QQ_CA42xod7euqA0v1oaM039Hw

    OR
    www.facebook.com/skylarjwynterauthor

    A few videos of this performance are here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77HPDmGidw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zShjVs0DBos

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K_P7N0J2go

    32 min

About Spoken Label

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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.