Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Chapel FM Director Tony Macaluso in conversation with Jeremy Poynting, Founder of Peepal Tree Press
WRITING ON AIR 2022
Writing On Air is back! Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio. Now in its 8th year, all programmes are conceived and created by upwards of 200 writers, readers, and performers from across Leeds and West Yorkshire, supported by the Chapel FM team.
When & where
- FromWed 23rd Nov '22, 12:00am
- UntilSun 27th Nov '22, 11:00pm
- WhereChapel FM Arts Centre Map
Tickets
This event has finished so tickets are no longer available.
Accessibility criteria*
- Accessible car-parking
- Induction Loop available
- Wheelchair access
* Other Access Details available on request
With interviews, radio dramas, open mics, discussions and soundscapes, there are no
headliners in Writing On Air and everything in the festival is broadcast to the entire world
on Chapel FM Art Centre’s very own community radio station, East Leeds FM.
The theme of WOA 2022 is Home: leaving home, finding a new home, high rents,
domestic bliss and quotidian misery, belonging, identity, the bedroom ceiling’s the limit.
Tune in, Listen Again or come along to free Live events in our fabulous radio theatre.
Details of individual events below!
Lists of Live Events
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Moving performance of Seni Seneviratne’s poems inspired by her father who served as a radio operator in World War Two.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Poppy Jennings and Jack Collins chat poetry with Leeds writers about home comforts and an ever-changing city.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Queer House Party showcases the best queer poetic talent, proving that through poetry everyone has a home.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Learn how to feel more comfortable on stage, with poet/performer Caitlin McKenna: microphones, hosting, audience engagement.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
A chance to put skills learned in the Home on Stage workshop into action for an in-house and radio audience.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Jerusalem, as in City and the Blake poem, mapped in words and music by playwright David Napthine and friends.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Shotgun and blood-spattered pinny: Irene Lofthouse remembers her Mam, Bradford housewife.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Window into the rich and varied lives of Leeds’ older community, presented by members of The Performance Ensemble.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Musicians from Mexico, Zimbabwe and the UK with words and music celebrating sense of place
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Theatre, poetry, music: Arts at the Arms, returning in triumph to Chapel FM, hosts an evening of original performance by local creatives.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Ian Harker, William Thirsk-Gaskill and Joe Williams take us on a whirlwind poetry tour of Leeds.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
New and established writers published by the fabulous and local Yaffle Press read work fresh from the oven.
Sat 27th April, 6:14am
Regulars of popular songwriters’ night Tower Of Song return in glory to close Writing On 2022
Full Broadcast schedule for Writing On Air 2022 and prior years broadcasts
WRITING ON AIR 2022
Writing On Air is back! Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio. Now in its 8th year, all programmes are conceived and created by upwards of 200 writers, readers, and performers from across Leeds and West Yorkshire, supported by the Chapel FM team.
Writing On Air 2018
Writing On Air 2018 was our biggest broadcast literature festival yet with 50 original programmes made by Yorkshire-based writers. This year’s festival took the theme ‘Borderlands’ which resonates throughout the schedule in different ways. You can listen again to any of them...
Writing on Air 2016
Chapel FM hosted a raft of great writing from across Yorkshire for four days during spring 2016. This was the first ever Writing on Air festival. All these broadcast are from our old website.
Writing on Air 2017
Chapel FM hosted a raft of great writing from across Yorkshire for four days during spring 2017. This was the second annual Writing on Air festival, with the theme being "Walls" . All these broadcast are from our old website.
Writing on Air 2019
WOA ’19 is a broadcast festival of writing. It will happen over four days, 21st-24th March at Chapel FM Arts Centre, our beautiful state-of-the-art studio and performance complex in East Leeds set in a restored Methodist chapel. East Leeds FM, which started in 2003, broadcasts to an annual local and global listenership of over 35,000 people.
Writing on Air 2021 Part 1
A two and a half day festival with over 30 programmes of literature on the radio, all made by writers and readers in Yorkshire. This year's theme is Vision.
Writing on Air 2021 Part 2
Writing on Air is a festival of words on the radio broadcast on East Leeds FM. The theme this year is Vision and features a host of programmes including radio dramas, readings, live music, all created by local writers and also mostly live from the Chapel FM Arts Centre Studios.
Full Digital Flyer Schedule
