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Here you will find free audio. We have readings from a range of UK poets and writers. Advice and workshops from editors, publishers, poets and writers from across the globe. We house interviews with some of the finest minds and voices in writing today and it's all free to download to your PC. If you're interested in submitting audio to this section of the site please contact us via email.

Artist: Vince Gotera, Title: Interview with Paula B, Format: MP3

Vince Gotera is the editor of the North American Review, the US's longest-lived literary magazine (founded in 1815). Here he talks with Paula B. from The Writing Show. Vince's books include Fighting Kite and Ghost Wars.

About Literary Magazines (and submitting work to them)

Artist: Pat Borthwick, Title: Jellyfish, Format: MP3

Taken from The Sea CD, recorded before a live audience at Bradford Book Festival.

Jellyfish

Artist: Melissa Paladino & Randall Brown, Title: Interview with Paula B, Format: MP3

Melissa Palladino lives in New England and has been writing fiction for seven years. Her story, “Spring Cleaning,” which was a published finalist in Inkwell's annual short story competition, was nominated by them for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She has also been published online at Vocabula.com and was recently longlisted for the Fish Prize.  You can read about her adventures in cooking at melissacooksgourmet.blogspot.com.

Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph's University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, Saint Ann's Review,  Evansville Review, Laurel Review, Dalhousie Review, upstreet, and others. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008).

Short story beginnings

Artist: Char March, Title: I have stuck a stone up my nose, Mother, Format: MP3

Poem by Andrew Oldham, read by Char for the Food for Thought Project in Yorkshire.

I have stuck a stone up my nose, Mother

Artist: Melissa Paladino & Randall Brown, Title: Interview with Paula B, Format: MP3

Melissa Palladino lives in New England and has been writing fiction for seven years. Her story, “Spring Cleaning,” which was a published finalist in Inkwell's annual short story competition, was nominated by them for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She has also been published online at Vocabula.com and was recently longlisted for the Fish Prize.  You can read about her adventures in cooking at melissacooksgourmet.blogspot.com.

Randall Brown teaches at Saint Joseph's University. He holds an MFA from Vermont College. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, Hunger Mountain, Connecticut Review, Saint Ann's Review,  Evansville Review, Laurel Review, Dalhousie Review, upstreet, and others. He is the author of the award-winning collection Mad to Live (Flume Press, 2008).

Short story endings

Artist: Ian Parks, Title: Shell Island, Format: MP3

Taken from The Sea CD, recorded before a live audience at Bradford Book Festival.

Shell Island

Artist: Paula B, Title: Writing Dialogue 2, Format: MP3

In our first show on dialogue , Paula looked at the importance of character agenda. This time she'll examine at a structural issue: interweaving dialogue with narrative.

Using examples from Ian Rankin's A Question of Blood and advice from Dialogue: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting Effective Dialogue by Gloria Kempton, she'll test the proposition "When the story is moving too slowly, add dialogue to speed it up."

Writing Dialogue 2

Artist: Walter Macken, Title: A Writer's Legacy, Format: MP3

Featuring Guest Hosts Mick Halpin and Rafael Guzmán. Every writer's dream is to create a legacy that lives on. Ireland's most popular historical novelist, Walter Macken, who died in 1967, did just that. This week's show features a conversation between Dublin-based linguist Rafael Guzmán and Father Walter Macken, Jr., the son of Walter Macken. Rafael is Webmaster at WalterMacken.com. After the conversation, Mick Halpin interviews Rafael Guzmán and then presents one of his inimitable unruly reviews, this time of Macken's 1962 novel The Silent People .

A Writer's Legacy

Artist: Michael Standen, Title: A Metaphor Shared, Format: Real

A Real Player Video (FLV) to celebrate the late Michael Standen (1937-2008) reproduced here with the kind permission of Valerie Standen.

A Metaphor Shared

Artist: Jurgen Wolff, Title: Psychological Aspects of Writing, inteview by Paula B, Format: MP3

Jurgen Wolff is a prolific writer and writing coach. In addition to teaching creativity techniques, he applies his own creativity to writing for television and film. He has written the feature film "The Real Howard Spitz" (starring Kelsey Grammer and Amanda Donohoe) and more than 100 hours of TV for series like "Benson," "Family Ties," "The Love Boat," and "Relic Hunter." Jurgen is a certified hypnotherapist and neurolinguistic programming (NLP) practitioner. He divides his time between London and Southern California.

Psychological Aspects of Writing

Artist: Paula B, Title: Points of View in Fiction, Format: MP3

What is point of view? What is the function of the narrator? What use narration? How do you change viewpoint and what to watch for? Paula B. explores these and many more in her radio show.

Points of View in Fiction

Artist: Elizabeth Buchan, Title: Elizabeth Buchan inteviewed by Paula B, Format: MP3

Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer for Penguin Books. She later became a fiction editor at Random House. Her novels include Daughters of the Storm, Light of the Moon, Consider the Lily, Against Her Nature, Secrets of the Heart and Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman. Her later novels are The Good Wife Strikes Back, Everything She Thought She Wanted, and the sequel to Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman, Wives Behaving Badly. Elizabeth reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail . Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Writing Fiction

Artist: Chanje Kunda, Title: One Voice, Format: WMA

Taken from One Voice EP.

One Voice

NEW SHOP AT AMAZON

The new Amazon shop opened on the 13th October 2007. The online shop houses publications from the Incwriter patrons, Claire Pollard, Esther Morgan & Janice Galloway. It has a section devoted to the collections from the Incwriters client list and even has a section listing all past review publications from Incorporating Writing (ISSN 1743-0380) over the past three years.

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