Writing on Air 2020 [POSTPONED]

A four and a half day festival with over 50 programmes of literature on the radio, all made by writers and readers in Yorkshire. This year's theme is Vision.

When & where

  • FromWed 25th Mar '20, 8:00pm
  • UntilSun 29th Mar '20, 6:30pm
  • WhereChapel FM Arts Centre Map

Tickets

This event has finished so tickets are no longer available.

Very sadly, owing to the COVID 19 outbreak, we have had to take the decision to postpone Writing On Air 2020 until calmer and healthier times, hopefully in the autumn when we are in our lovely building again. Writing On Air 2020 is ready to go, but only when the world is ready! In the meantime, stay safe – and listen to highlights from all four previous Writing On Air festivals right round the clock over the period 26th-29th March.

“Writing On Air is a broadcast festival of writing. Now in its 5th year, with over 60 programmes made by 200 writers, readers, and performers from across West Yorkshire, all programmes are broadcast through Chapel FM Art Centre’s very own community radio station, East Leeds FM. 

This year’s festival theme, appropriate for 2020, is Vision. What do we see and choose not to see? Visions of the future, visionary poets, the history of optics – expect a wide range of programmes, from radio drama and readings to panel discussion and sound art. 

Listen or Listen Again at www.chapelfm.co.uk or come along to a raft of free Live events in our beautiful radio theatre at Chapel FM Arts Centre, a converted Methodist Chapel in Seacroft. This year Writing On Air features a special exhibition, Seen and Not Heard, from Doncaster photographer, Les Monaghan. 

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

Visit the WOA Show Page where all the programmes past and present are hosted for live listening and listen again.”

The full Writing on Air 2020 calendar

  

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 '19