Tuesday, September 16

Online ReadFest 2025: Recording and Podcasting for Writers

By Pen to Print

Discover Audio and Podcasting to share your writing and learn how to record, perform and stand out in today’s publishing world.

Date and time

Location

Online

Good to know

Highlights

2 hours
Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 1 day before event

About this event

In this workshop we'll talk about the ways in which writers, poets and publishers can use audio as a means of sharing and promoting their work. We'll look at why having well recorded audio versions of your writing can set you apart from other writers in a crowded publishing world and dive into techniques for recording and performing your words.

We’ll also explore podcasting as a powerful platform for sharing your writing - unpacking how it works and the unique benefits it offers.

This workshop will be led by Chris Gregory, founder and director of Alternative Stories - an award-winning production company known for its compelling drama, poetry, and fiction podcasts and radio programmes.

Pen to Print participants may recognize Chris as the producer of the Write On! Audio podcast and a judge for the Pen to Print Audio Play Competition.

Click here to discover more about Alternative Stories.

If you have any accessibility requirements, please directly get in touch with us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk
Booking is essential. Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are found not to have booked a place for a session
We encourage all participants to keep their cameras on during the session
Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are disruptive to a session
Pen to Print reserves the right to cancel, delay or postpone the event for any reason, including an emergency situation or unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances out of its reasonable control. In such cases, the event organiser will endeavour to inform participants as quickly as is possible

Organized by

Pen to Print

Pen to Print provided by Barking & Dagenham Libraries is working to build a network of support for aspiring writers in Barking and Dagenham.

We identify local writing talent and provide them with opportunities to produce quality writing for publication.

We publish our own suite of publications, Write On! our free quarterly print magazine, alongside Write On! Extra online and our Write On! Audio podcast

In addition to our main competition The Book Challenge we offer other free writing competitions, author events classes, workshops and other activity supported by established creative writing experts, authors and artists.

A majority of our events are available for free and open to everyone and are designed to inspire and encourage writers, as well as providing entertainment to the wider reading public.

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NB: Due to increased costs, we will be making a small charge of £1 (plus any charges applied by Eventbrite.) for people attending sessions online, this comes into effect from 1 January 2024 onwards.

Taking part in all of our sessions in-person at a venue remains free.

Any profit we may make will be invested back into the programme, contributing to making our digital offering more environmentally sustainable. We are starting with an upgrade to our website that will be coming soon.

We do regret that we have to make this difficult decision however, our grant funding is not increasing and we are experiencing increased costs that we can no longer afford to absorb.

We are aware that this could prove cost prohibitive for some people, if cost is a barrier to you taking part, if you are UK based , please do email us directly: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk to discuss this further.

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Pen to Print is supported using public funding by Arts Council England funded by UK Government, as a Library National Portfolio Organisation .

Web Address: pentoprint.org

Email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

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