We’re delighted to bring you recordings of all our wonderful readers at Story Sunday ‘The Great Escape’ in partnership with Bristol Literature Festival 2020. Introductions by Heather Child Kerry Postle reads ‘Are We There Yet?’ Jonathan Evans reads‘Love Hearts’ Suzanne McConaghy reads ‘Escape’ John Holland reads ‘The Most Beautiful Thing She Has Ever Seen’ Gail…
Yes, it’s official!We are proud to be offering two events in this year’s Bristol Literature Festival which runs from 10th to 25th October. Sadly it’s all on line but isn’t everything? The upside is that as long as you have an internet connection you can join from wherever you happen to be, in any part…
In an exciting update to our Story Sunday ‘Tales of Our City’ event on October 20th we’re thrilled to announce that we – and you – will be joined for the evening by Bristol’s favourite writer and spoken word poet Lucy English. We’re sure that you have either met Lucy or know her work; from…
So with submissions open for Tales of Our City, here’s a blog post from Ali Bacon who has been looking for some visual inspiration. The tag line ‘no more suspension bridges…’ is taken from a project which began a year ago when Bristol photographer Colin Moody and community arts group the People’s Republic of Stokes…
Our judging hats are well and truly on and we are haggling over who to include from a very strong entry. If you submitted you will be hearing from us soon. Meanwhile here’s a reminder of the event details.
Stop all the clocks! We’re having ‘A Moment In Time’ After something of a lull at WU Towers we’re delighted to be open for submissions once more for our first 2018 Story Sunday event on Sunday April 29th with the theme of A Moment in Time when around ten writers will be invited to take to the Southbank stage…
Phew, we made it! As ever is was tres difficile to decide which stories to feature in our Story Sunday line-up but we got there in the end. We’re looking forward to some fabulous writing and reading so all we need now is you to come along and give them as big an audience as we…
Thanks to all those who submitted. Participants will be announced by October 15th. You are invited to submit stories from 500 – 1500 words on the theme of Crime for our Story Sunday on October 22nd. Deadline October 1st. Check out how to do it on our submissions page.
Hello fellow writers and readers and apologies for being off the scene for a while. However we have some excellent news to report and can also give you the heads-up for our next event in October, part of the annual Bristol Litfest extravaganza. First, the good news. In between all that short story action last year,…
Thanks to Suzanne McConnaghy for summing up her first experience of reading with us at Southbank on March 19th. Writers Unchained impressed me so much at the Festival of Literature, back in October 2016, that I decided I would enter their next event. They’d finally got me to see that writing a short story was…