Parklive, Kimberley Park, Falmouth, Sunday 27 September:

Telltales is be at Parklive on Sunday 27 September, from 2.30 P.M. until 3.15 P.M. – part of a free Spoken Word event running that afternoon. Writers include lecturer and broadcaster Mark Crees, journalist and author Sue Kittow, poet Angela Nicholson, and short story writer Heather Hosking. What better way to spend what is predicted to be a sunny afternoon?

Local Radio Opportunities:

Mark Crees(see above and below) hosts a new radio show, Book Mark, for readers and writers on CHBN Radio. 100.8FM or at www.chbnradio.org. If you have an idea for a feature, poem or story, contact Mark at: mark.crees@chbnradio.org

Telltales, 22 September:

Tuesday saw an atmospheric evening at Dolly’s.Tracy Mayes opened with a personal account of first teenage employment and aspiration in the Black Country, the descriptions and accents authentic to a tee; Mark Crees followed on with stories of growing up with teenage sisters in the heyday of Cilla Black and the Beatles, based on turning points in the young women’s fandom, and linked to 45’s played on a period turntable; Heather Hosking told a poignant family story about the reluctant acceptance of change, based in her Cornish childhood years; Angela Nicholson read a meditative poem on the richness of savouring the present, and one’s own surroundings, in which abstract emotion was rendered palpable by verse-form; Tim Hannigan read two compelling travel pieces, from Syria and Devon, linked by a fascinating thesis on layers of reality in reporting methods. The evening was topped and tailed by accomplished harmonies from a capella singers, Jig the Quavers.

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