Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print.

Our April Showcase is selected and introduced by Hannah Rooney – a student in the second year of her creative writing course at the University of Sunderland. As Hannah explains, the overarching theme of this Showcase is one of optimism. The readers in this showcase are Sally Walker Taylor and Chris Gregory.

Hannah’s selections are as follows:

Anxious Mind by Gloria Maloney

Parahumanity (excerpt) by Hannah Hoare

Vitalite Nights (excerpt) by Kristine Allen

Heckler by Hannah Rooney

The Gift by Thomas Dale

Thank you to Hannah Rooney from the University of Sunderland for selecting and introducing this showcase.

If you’d like to find out more about the Creative Writing course at the University of Sunderland please follow the link below

https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/english/undergraduate-english/

And to follow Hannah Rooney on Instagram go to https://www.instagram.com/hannahrooney.x/

Hannah referenced publishers and creative writing organisation, Write-On-The-Tyne, run by Helen Aitchison who has also appeared on this podcast. To find out more go to www.writeonthetyne.com

The final selection in the showcase “ The Gift” by Thomas Dale was published in the Write on The Tyne Recovery Voices anthology – find out more and buy a copy here http://www.recoveryconnections.org.uk/

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write On! or hear them on this podcast do get in touch. Please submit to:

https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.

This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England