BBC Radio Solent's Sam Fraser interviews Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts' Writer in Residence, Jack Thacker
How do you go about applying for a Writer in Residence role? Sam Fraser from BBC Radio Solent finds out when she interviews ArtfulScribe's Writer in Residence, Jack Thacker, who is based at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts in 2019/2020 as part of the DO:Write project, supported with generous funding from Arts Council England and project partners.
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Invisible Mentors: What Do Poets Teach?
Episode 1 in the Invisible Mentors series, 'What Do Poets Teach?', explores the importance of mentoring for developing new writers. Our guests Romalyn Ante, Aviva Dautch, and Caleb Parkin talk about their experience of being mentored, and their work for Poetry Ambassadors, a new mentoring scheme for young poets run by ArtfulScribe in collaboration with the Winchester Poetry Festival and the University of Southampton.
Invisible Mentors: How Do Poets Learn?
Episode 2 in the Invisible Mentors series, 'How Do Poets Learn?', examines the hidden histories of mentoring in the UK. Malika Booker describes how she set up a poetry workshop in her kitchen to create a safe space for more diverse voices, Lise Jalliant explains how the Carcanet archives revealed the significant role of women in poetry publishing, and Sue Dymoke discusses new research showing the impact of competitive mentoring schemes on young writers.
Invisible Mentors: How Do Poets Know?
Episode 3 in the Invisible Mentors series, 'What Do Poets Know?', explores the various places and contexts for poetry mentoring. Andrew McMillan considers the role of informal mentoring and the importance of creative writing teaching in universities, Heidi Williamson outlines the power of professional mentoring, and Vidyan Ravinthiran talks about his role in the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme, which supports more diverse reviewing cultures in UK poetry.
Invisible Mentors: Who Mentors the Mentor?
Episode 4 in the Invisible Mentors series, 'Who Mentors the Mentor?', focuses on poets and mentors whose have created wider structures for poets to give and receive mentoring. Nick Makoha describes the role of Obsidian Foundation, and Pascale Petit and Mimi Khalvati explain why they set up the Poetry School.
Creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 1: The Art of the Green Story - Denise Baden
Creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 2: A Storm Surge in a Teacup - with Ivan Haigh
creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 3:Meeting Sponges, Seahorses and David Attenborough, with Ken Collins
creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 4: From Fact to Feeling: Demystifying the Deep with Jon Copley
Creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 5: Mapping Watery Worlds, with Eli Lazarus
creative Writers Against Coastal Waste Episode 6: From Grain Scale to Nation Scale: Coastal Exchange, with Charlie Thompson
PSST... Poetry, Storytelling, Songwriting, Theatre with Ri Baroche
Psst....have you heard about ‘PSST...’? It’s a podcast series showcasing and celebrating queer voices in conversation with writer and performer Ri Baroche, produced by ArtfulScribe.
We’ve chosen four of our favourite queer writers working in the SW regions to sit down and talk about all things queer and all things joy. Our four writers are Jayne Ede (poetry), Devin Valentine of Hunting Hearts (songwriting), Thorn (storytelling), and CJ Turner-Macmullan (theatre).
These artists talk about their approaches to writing, what it means to write as a queer person and how this contributes to their work, their advice to young queer writers, and how joy shines on the page. While we cover some of the essential topics of the difficulties continually faced by queer folx in UK society, this is very much a celebration of queer people coming together to talk in joyfulness about writing and queer stories.
Episodes are released every Wednesday in June 2023 to celebrate Pride Month. This series is supported by Arts Council England.
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Before Alice - Audio Play Trailer - Alice's Blue Hour
Before Alice - An Audio Play
Written & Directed by Stacie Bates
Produced by ArtfulScribe
Alice is voiced by Charlotte Barnes
Cactus is voiced by Gregory Cox
woman who, after a stint as a botanist, decided to leave the pressurised world
of academia to open her own plant and flower shop in the market town where she
grew up. The doors to her shop will open for the first time tomorrow but she is
distracted; she worries about her social awkwardness and making polite
conversation, the loud noises of the bustling town spook her and her only
companion is... a cactus, who she can't help but converse with.
solace in her plants and, in turn, herself. Before Alice tells the story of a
woman confronting her past so she is no longer captive, to start afresh and
walk a new path.
Before Alice - Audio Play Trailer - A Cactus' Blue Hour
Before Alice - An Audio Play
Written & Directed by Stacie Bates
Produced by ArtfulScribe
Alice is voiced by Charlotte Barnes
Cactus is voiced by Gregory Cox
woman who, after a stint as a botanist, decided to leave the pressurised world
of academia to open her own plant and flower shop in the market town where she
grew up. The doors to her shop will open for the first time tomorrow but she is
distracted; she worries about her social awkwardness and making polite
conversation, the loud noises of the bustling town spook her and her only
companion is... a cactus, who she can't help but converse with.
solace in her plants and, in turn, herself. Before Alice tells the story of a
woman confronting her past so she is no longer captive, to start afresh and
walk a new path.
Before Alice - Audio Play Trailer - Sleep Sees
Before Alice - An Audio Play
Written & Directed by Stacie Bates
Produced by ArtfulScribe
Alice is voiced by Charlotte Barnes
Cactus is voiced by Gregory Cox
Alice is a reserved, sweet-natured yet unexpectedly dynamic
woman who, after a stint as a botanist, decided to leave the pressurised world
of academia to open her own plant and flower shop in the market town where she
grew up. The doors to her shop will open for the first time tomorrow but she is
distracted; she worries about her social awkwardness and making polite
conversation, the loud noises of the bustling town spook her and her only
companion is... a cactus, who she can't help but converse with.
As Alice’s past returns in unexpected bursts, she seeks
solace in her plants and, in turn, herself. Before Alice tells the story of a
woman confronting her past so she is no longer captive, to start afresh and
walk a new path.
