Wednesday 6 October

TransMission Possible: an introductory workshop to writing for internet radio

 

1- 6pm

Venue: Radio Wildfire studio, Gun Quarter, Central Birmingham (full details will be given after booking)

Get your writing heard and help create a bespoke transmission for the Birmingham Book Festival on this writing for transmission workshop with Radio Wildfire. Internet radio is a growing field for the transmission of spoken word whether that be poetry, short stories, storytelling or drama. It is also an excellent medium for getting yourself noticed as a writer. The workshop will begin with a writing and editing session following which, after a break for refreshment, you will be recording your own work and helping to create the Birmingham Book Festival Loop, a repeating hour of material that will transmit for the rest of the festival period. This will include work produced during the day, archive material from last years festival plus work and interviews from artists taking part in 2010. The workshop will last until 6.00 pm but you are welcome to stay on afterwards until the whole of The Loop is ready and put online, and the publicity sent out. Ideas that you’ve already worked on and pieces you write on the day, they’ll all be considered for transmission.

Please give an email address as we will be sending other information (including directions and venue address) out to you before the workshop. (NB due to time restrictions, no guarantee can be made about the length of any contribution to The Loop. All decisions will be made on the day.)

The writing workshop will be led by Dave Reeves, Radio Wildfire presenter and previously editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years; the recording and editing will be supervised by Vaughn Reeves and Benjamin Stanley from the Radio Wildfire creative production team.

Tickets: £26 (£23)

Box Office: 0121 303 2323  ONLINE BOOKING available now.