Come and join us at Gyllyngdune Gardens, Princess Pavilions for Telltales in the open air for readings of poetry, prose, short stories and extracts from longer works.

6pm to 8pm on Tuesday 25 May 2021.

We’ll be in the gardens, so please bring something warm to wear, plus a drink and nibbles, if you would like.

Our audience is limited to a total of 30 people.

So, please book your free ticket here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telltales-out-may-2021-tickets-156334088467

NOTE: If you are reading at this event, or have arranged to come with a reader, please do not book a ticket, as you are already reserved – thank you!

We will be putting a recording of the May 2021 Telltales up onto our website after the event.

Hope to see you there!

Thank you again to everyone who was involved in our virtual Telltales in March. You can hear it below.

For Telltales on 25 May we’re looking forward to your submissions on the theme of OUT.

We’re running this Telltales as both as a live event – out in the open air at Gyllyngdune Gardens, Princess Pavilion, Falmouth – and as a recording after the event.

Submissions are open until Friday 21 May for poetry, prose, short stories and excerpts from longer works. Please think in terms of around 1500 words maximum, which is around 10 minutes. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please submit via email to info@telltales.org.uk

This May edition of Telltales will take place from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday 25 May 2021 and will be online the following day.

Telltales – March 2021 – Good Timing

with…

1. Lally MacBeth – Poem “Good Timing”
2. Des Hannigan – “Good Timing and Near Death”
3. Frances Evans – Poem and Flash Fiction
4. Ella Walsworth-Bell – “Death is not a Callgirl”
5. Chris Silver – Poems
6. TooLongDead – “Smile”
7. Jude Bristow – Poems
8. Sarah Perry – Prose
9. Penny MacBeth – Poems
10. Attila the Stockbroker – Poem “Never Too Late”
11. World Party – “Always“

Thank you again to everyone who was involved in our virtual Telltales in November. You can hear it below.

For Telltales on 30 March 2021 we’re looking forward to your submissions on the theme of Good Timing.

We’re thinking of anything relating to time, chance, synchronicity, random events, a day’s work or play, the past, present or future, so a broad range of ideas on which to draw for new work, or something that you’ve already written.

Submissions

Submissions are open until Friday 26 March for poetry, prose, short stories and excerpts from longer works. Please think in terms of around 1500 words maximum, which is around 10 minutes. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please submit via email to info@telltales.org.uk

If your submission is accepted we will ask you to record your piece on your computer or phone and send it to us as a sound file, to include in the virtual Telltales event.

Instead of meeting at our usual venue in Falmouth, we will again be putting Telltales online.

This March edition of Telltales will be available on this website from 7pm on Tuesday 30 March 2021.

Telltales – 24 November 2020 – A New Day

with…

Mac Dunlop – The Way It Is, Poetry

Alex Woodcock – Bride of Quietness, Prose

Deanna Earl – Poetry

Ed Martin – Changing Hands, Short story

Nina Simone – Feeling Good

Ella Walsworth-Bell – One Dark Night, Short story

Henry Purbrick – Trumpelstiltskin, Short story

Lucy Beckley – The Rising, Short story

Tressa Reeves – The Watcher, Short story

Thank you again to everyone who was involved in our virtual Telltales in September. You can hear it below.

For Telltales on 24 November we’re looking forward to your submissions on the theme of A New Day.

Submissions are open until Saturday 21 November for poetry, prose, short stories and excerpts from longer works. Please think in terms of around 1500 words maximum, which is around 10 minutes. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please submit via email to info@telltales.org.uk

If your submission is accepted we will ask you to record your piece on your computer or phone and send it to us as a sound file, to include in the virtual Telltales event.

Instead of meeting at our usual venue in Falmouth, we will again be putting Telltales online.

This November edition of Telltales will be available on this website from 7pm on Tuesday 24 November 2020.

Telltales – 29 September 2020 – What on Earth…!!!

Part 1 – The Freedom to Play

Henry Purbrick – The Date is 4020 and.. (short story)
Nicole d’Altena – The Inventor or Words (short story)
Rob Barrett – Prose and poetry
Sarah Perry – Earthworms (prose)

Part 2 – Surprise – the Sting in the Tale/Tail?

Frances Evans – Safe (short story)
Ben Beattie – A selection of poetry
Timothy Evans – The Fatigue of Zennor Teague (extract from novel)
Ella Walsworth-Bell – Oral storytelling

Part 3 – Home and Isolation

Sarah Valmai – The Boxes Trilogy (poetry)
Sara Clasper – Through my kitchen window (prose)
John Lugo-Trebble – Sergeant’s Personal Log: 654 (short story)
Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis – How to be at Home (film and poetry)

The theme for September’s Telltales is “What on Earth…!!!”.

This theme encourages you to create something with an element of surprise or shock attached to it. So far Telltales has supported written and spoken word, music and art creations. We’d like our horizons to be broadened even further – perhaps a sound or group recording or a piece of roving reporting! Just remember to keep to about 10 minutes in length.

“What on Earth…!!!” might also get you thinking about surprises during these strange times. Or you may want to focus on planet earth, the soil beneath your feet, electrical connections to the ground, underground dens, earthworms, earthquakes or earthworks! There are so many earth idioms too – earth shattering, down to earth, salt of the earth, hell/heaven on earth, cost the earth, move heaven and earth and vanish off the face of the earth! What on Earth will you think of next?!!

Please submit your work by email to info@telltales.org.uk

The deadline for submissions is Friday 25 September.

Telltales will be on Tuesday 29 September.

Thank you!

Here’s the virtual edition of Telltales for 28 July 2020 on the theme of Summer Sun.

Thank you very much to all our readers and listeners who have made this latest edition of Telltales possible!

best wishes
Marcus and all of us at Telltales

Thank you again to everyone who was involved in our virtual Telltales in May, which is still available as a recording below.

For Telltales on 28 July we’re inviting submissions on the theme of Summer Sun.

Submissions are open until Friday 24 July for poetry, prose, short stories and excerpts from longer works. Please think in terms of around 1500 words maximum, which is around 10 minutes. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please submit via email, with your document attached, to:

info@telltales.org.uk

If your submission is accepted we will ask you to record your piece on your computer or phone and send it to us as a sound file, to include in the virtual Telltales event.

Instead of meeting at our usual venue in Falmouth, we will again be putting Telltales online.

This July edition of Telltales will be available on this website from 7pm on Tuesday 28 July 2020.