Far from it …

In lieu of being able to partake of live performances, a number of members have had stories and poems broadcast on local radio this last few weeks.

Radio Leeds have run a ‘write a story in less than 750 words‘ challenge and no less than seven different members have had their stories broadcast:

‘Showdown at the Bird Hide’ by Gill Osborne
‘A Parrot Tale’ by Graeme Hall
‘A Little Life’ by Stephanie Soper
‘Love in the Time of Corona’ by Pat Pickavance
‘As I was Saying’ by Diane Johnson
‘Mr August’ by Linda Fulton
‘Love Curse’ by Sunyi Dean

You can hear them all here on the Radio Leeds website.

Emma Storr has had both a short story and a selection of poems broadcast for the Wordybirds segment on Chapel FM. They are both available from the link here (April 20th and April 23rd).

The Island Review features a video of a reading from Marg Greenwood, a visit to the Hebridean island of Gigha in travelogue and verse. That’s here.

Meanwhile, in print, there is other big news …

Pat Belford is Writer of the Week in this week’s edition of the People’s Friend. There’s a lovely interview with her that can be read at their online site.

Finally, following her success in our own poetry competition, Gail Mosley has just won the Currock Press Red Shed poetry competition with her entry ‘Thompson Street’. It was judged by James Nash and there is a wonderful piece from him here about the process.

Congratulations everyone. It’s great to see members making the best of this difficult time.