Podcast 'Red Pen' Episodes

The podcast is available via iTunes, Google’s Feedburner, Podbean, Podcasters and Podcast Alley.

To fill the gap in the podcast schedule left by the audio interviews, I run ‘red pen’ episodes where I read out a short story or self-contained novel extract then comment on it. I’m firm but fair but I know that the episodes are listened to around the world (NB copyright always remains with the author – and I only read the story, I don’t paste it into the blog) so if you’re precious about your writing then this may not be your cup of tea.

If you have something a novel extract with synopsis or short story (preferred), ideally 1,500 words max, that you would like critique on, then feel free to email me. If you are sending a novel extract, please indicate where in the novel the extract is pulled from, thank you.

I’m no poet so don’t feel qualified to give critique back on this however I have a plan (to hopefully get a local poet involved) so poets hang fire for now and I’ll change this with news if it comes to fruition.

• The first ‘red pen’ session episode was released on Monday 8th August featuring a 325-word flash fiction entitled ‘Green’ by San Francisco-based writer and musician J D Mader and the podcast is available via the links at the top of this page (and in the ‘Where to find me’ side menu) with a summary here and you can listen to the episode here.
• The second ‘red pen’ session episode was released on Monday 22nd August featuring a 1,591-word short story from Aneesa – the summary was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• The third ‘red pen’ session episode was released on Monday 5th September and featured a novel extract from crime writer Lae Monie who was also my author spotlight no.2. A summary of the podcast episode was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• The fourth ‘red pen’ session episode was released on Saturday 17th September (two days early due to my mother’s 80th birthday being on the Monday!) and featured a 883-word short story entitled ‘The Sow’s Ear‘ by J D Mader. A summary of the podcast was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• Aneesa returned for episode no.5 which was released on Monday 10th October and featured a story called ‘You are my reasons’ -– the summary was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• Episode no.6, released on Monday 24th October, was an extract from forthcoming novel ‘Firebound’ provided by teacher and writer Kathryn Wild – the summary of which was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• Episode no.7, released on Sunday 6th November, featured a short story by Aaron entitled ‘On the edge’ – the summary was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• Episode no.8, released Sunday 27th November, was a novel extract by crime writer, spotlightee and contributor of red pen critique podcast ep3 Lae Monie – the summary was posted here and you can listen to the episode here.
• Red pen no.9, released Wednesday 28th December – was my critique of a short extract from ‘The Desolate Garden‘ by Danny Kemp. You can listen to the episode here.

As of December 2012, I have stopped doing the podcast red pen sessions but am putting them on the blog instead as Sunday evening Red Pen Critique postings. I hope you find this format even more useful.

There’s also plenty of information dotted around this blog, predominantly in the Submission info., Competitions Calendar and Events sections.