Writing on Air 2019

Chapel FM's very own broadcast literature festival. Sixty original word-based radio programmes broadcast between 21-24th March 2019.

When & where

  • FromThu 21st Mar '19, 10:00am
  • UntilSun 24th Mar '19, 6:30pm
  • WhereChapel FM Arts Centre Map
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Writing On Air’19 is a one-of-a-kind broadcast festival of original writing.

Happening over four days, Thursday 21st-Sunday 24th March, at Chapel FM Arts Centre, our beautiful state-of-the-art studio and performance complex in a restored Methodist Chapel, WOA ’19 will be even bigger than before, with over 60 programmes on the theme of Hearing The Voice.

Whose voices are loudest in our society? Whose voices don’t get heard? What are the voices we hear inside our heads? How do we find our own voice? This year, there will be a foretaste of WOA in the inaugural Leeds Lit Fest earlier in March.

Apart from being a literature festival on the radio, what makes WOA different is that all the programmes are conceived and created by writers and readers themselves. Join us for readings, interviews, discussions, open mic, documentaries, workshops, radio drama and more!

Have a look at the full schedule for the whole four days… or you can see each day’s schedules below.

Visit the WOA Show Page where all the programmes will be hosted for live listening and listen again.

Photo by Joanna Sedgwick

Day by day schedules

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Thoughts from writers involved in previous WOA festivals...

Last year's Writing on Air festival involved around 200 local, regional, and international writers, readers, and performers. Apart from its being broadcast on the radio, what makes WOA distinctive as a literature festival is that all the programmes are conceived and created by writers and readers themselves.

  • The Chapel FM team allowed us the creative freedom to create the show we envisioned. As a writer, I felt in very good company.

    Marcos Avlonitis

    10/05/2017

  • There was a real buzz of creativity. A memorable and enriching few days.

    Amina Alyal

    20/04/2017

  • Writing on Air has been a fantastic opportunity to learn more about creating and delivering a radio show—I got to talk with poets I really admire and share my interests with a larger audience.

    Jo Brandon

    24/04/2017

  • Age is irrelevant here. You could quite easily find high school students and pensioners collaborating on a show!

    Nigel

    Find Your Frequency participant

  • I came for my ‘Find Your Frequency’ session today and it was an awesome one with Ryan, he showed me a few tricks for using a MAC and the audacity editing programme. He then went on to teach me about show production and running order sheets etc. It was exactly what I was hoping to learn.

    Anil Bharath

    Find Your Frequency course

    12/07/2017

Have a listen to some of our regular words-based shows and programmes from Writing on Air '18