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BBC radio launches ‘Word Matters’ from 5-Live this month, a campaign focused on the estimated 9 million adults in the UK who struggle to read and write. The news and sports channel aims to start the biggest conversation across the UK about adult literacy. It follows 5-Live’s campaign on adult mental health in 2020. …
This week I’m attending the ProWritingAid Crime Writer’s Week 2021. Not because I’m crafting a police procedural or whodunnit, or even because we read a lot of crime writing. ProWritingAid’s first ever Crime Writer’s Week for crime and thriller authors has a lot of valuable content for any writer. …
Thanks to a seasonal re-run we’re currently listening to What is a Story? on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2015. Starting with an examination of our early experiences of stories, Marina Warner looks at contemporary fiction in this ten-part documentary.
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Way back in 2011, the Eventing Standard started a campaign to “get parents reading aloud.
Back then it claimed the reading skills of one in five London parents were so poor they cannot read a bedtime story to their children. …
Following up a Writer’s Summit, a few days on from Escape the Plot Forest , I’m still digesting all that material and need to go over some of it again!
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Five amazing days flew by attending the Escape the Plot Forest Virtual Summit, a writers’ conference organised by Daniel David Wallace, ex-pat writer, editor and teacher of creative writing based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Promoted as a complete guide to the plotting process, “first step to first reader” approach to telling stories, by common agreement of the 3000+ attendees, this far exceeded expectations of a virtual event. …
Under the BBC’s Arts & Ideas thread on BBC Sounds: The Radiophonic Workshop.
Matthew Sweet narrates a 40-minute documentary on the pioneers of British radio and TV electronic scores. …
Another event from craft maestro Daniel David Wallace, Find Your Readers Summit July 24-27 was a four-day online event. Delegates learned to expand writing craft skills, share more work, build an audience, and enhance creativity. Breaking the mold of writing as a solitary experience, this event showcased the ways to connect with other writers and readers. …
Lose yourself in timeless fiction from literary greats, a collection of one hundred stories in unabridged audio from BBC Sounds.
A collection of timeless fiction from the literary greats from Austen to Elliot, Dickens to Maupassant, Conan Doyle to Wharton. …
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BBC Teach and First Story collaborate with contemporary writers to produce a new set of creative writing resources, Inside the Writer’s Mind. A mix of video and document resources, six of the films in the BBC series are accompanied by a free classroom PDF by First Story. …