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The Re-Draft Podcast comes at you LIVE from The King's Arms! What a beautiful venue we find ourselves in for our inaugural live episode with comedian Adam Evans! We talk all things Verbose, Edinburgh Fringe, how to get into comedy, making strangers laugh and how Adam wrote a whole book

back in primary school.

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LISA O'HARE is about to take her show, DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST RHYME? to the Edinburgh Festival - a dream they've had for decades. We were delighted to sit down with her and discuss her community work, hosting Verbose, and how she found poetry later in life before the show! It's an excellent discussion.

Follow Lisa @thelisaohare

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Louis Glazzard self published his poetry book, Human Men, and is now in active development on a novel. He has experience with the Arts Council, has run poetry workshops for folks in Australia and worked as the Poet in Residence via Zoom, and sat down with us to talk all things language, editing and promotion.

You can buy tickets for our upcoming live show here!

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Adam joined us on the podcast to discuss all things memoir writing and the craft of creatively re-telling your own life's experiences. We also discuss:

• His own turbulent childhood
• His time writing music reviews
• When The Darkness luckily didn't kill him
• The difficult second book
• How the spoken word scene influenced his writing
• How to market when your publisher has no money.

And much more. You can support Adam by following him on Instagram or buying Cold Fish Soup, options on Linktree.

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This weeks episode is with one of Manchester's most talented poets - the ineffable Cherrelle Anne! She is one third of the Poetry Place, she runs Sensually Spoken Word and tomorrow (Wednesday 12th) is set to hit the stage at Manchester International Festival performing new songs and poems. We love Cherrelle, and were delighted to spend time with her.

She talks about making poetry work for you, her family and upbringing, and why some events should be ticketed!

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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening!

We're back with another episode of the Re-Draft Podcast and we're delighted to bring you a conversation with poetry legend Dom Berry!

In this episode we talk:

• A short review of Outbreak festival and discussion of mixed events
• Chat about the legitimacy of celebrity poetry books, fresh off of the news of Drake's new poetry collection 'Titles Ruin Everything.'
• News about Romina's excellent new office space
• A great chat about the point of art with Dom
• Discussions of poetry in the classroom
• Are bank adverts poetry? Is all poetry art? Should it be?
• Toby Campion as one of the best voices in UK poetry
• Oliver Sykes new children's show, which Dom is directing
• How to make poetry your income source

You can subscribe to our Patreon here: patreon.com/user?u=89765049

You can buy tickets to our upcoming live show here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/re-draft-podcast-live-with-adam-evans-tickets-663517487667

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A little sneak peak at what we have ahead and a very exciting announcement!

We are bringing you The Re-Draft Podcast live with all new poetry from Will and Romina plus a live comedy set from Adam Evans followed by a Q+A podcast!

Tickets are available here at £4 per entry https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/united-kingdom--bury--85683615/adam-evans/

We can't wait! Our full conversation with Dominic Berry will be uploaded tomorrow morning, so stay tuned.

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Hello! Welcome to Re-Draft Podcast - the podcast by writers, for writers - episode 10 with Valerie O'Riordan.

Dr Valerie O'Riordan is a writer, critic and academic. She lectures in Creative Writing and English at the University of Bolton, focussing on fiction-writing, critical, cultural and literary theory, and student employability. Her fiction has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including Tin House, LitMag, The Lonely Crowd, and The Manchester Review, and she is currently working on a novel, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England. In 2019 she was awarded an O.Henry prize for her short story, 'Bad Girl'. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• You might have noticed it's quite warm...
• Growing up Irish and Irish literature and cinema
• Expensive housing locking us out of opportunities
• Draft as you go? How Val edits
• Find something too hard? Quit!
• Running a zine online
• How to become a lecturer!
• And much more...

Keep your eyes peeled for some VERY exciting information over on our Patreon later this week... the rest of you will find out soon!

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