Adverbially Challenged Volume 5 is scheduled to be released on Saturday 21st November and will contain my flash fiction piece ‘Night Vision’ Kindle versions are available for pre-order now on Amazon and paperback copies will be on sale from the…
My short story radio play ‘Mother-in-Law will be broadcast on BBC Radio Leeds tomorrow (Friday 13th November) on the Gayle Lofthouse Show between 1 and 2pm.
I have just finished writing the first draft of A Very Alternative Coast to Coast. I am going to have a break from it for a few weeks and pick up the task of self-editing and rewriting in January. I…
I’m excited to announce a special sale on the run up to Christmas on the www.erachaelhardcastle.com/shop site! Peter Kay has kindly provided some signed copies of his 1st edition travel memoir and companion calendar for sale on the website, but…
I have now sold 87 books and 15 Calendars and the combined amount raised for MNDA from these sales has now topped £500. Thank you to everyone who has bought books and/or calendars
First 10 Calendars and another 2 books sold this week. Combined MNDA total from books and Calendar sales has now reached £450.
I have just heard that my 2021 Show Me the Way to Santiago Calendars will be arriving today. Priced at £5.90 each (£10 for 2) each one sold will provide a minimum £2.50 donation to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.…
50 years ago on the 31st August, I was one of around 600,000 people who spent a glorious weekend on the Isle of Wight in the company of such legends as; Free, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen,…
Last night I had the privilege of being able to share some of my poems at the indomitable Runcible Spoon Zoom night hosted by Kathleen Stafford. 15 or 16 brilliant open mic-ers interspersed with four headline poets. The sensual words…
Looking forward to talking to David Driver on Drystone Radio this evening about all things ‘writerly’
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My virtual book signing event goes out on Thursday. This was created in lieu of the Book signing event in Huddersfield that had to be cancelled.
I created a black out poem as part of an exercise within a Writing Group I am involved in.I used Page 184 from SHOW ME THE WAY TO SANTIAGO and managed to create a Love Poem.Here are the words that…
Adverbially Challenged Volume 5 is now complete and will be published in November 2020, including my flash fiction piece – ‘Night Vision’
I have just heard that my entry for the competition will be included in the Anthology that will be available before Christmas The River In February you raged,cut a widening swathethrough watery green fields,carved intricate patterns in sludge left behind,unearthed…
I thoroughly enjoyed a wonderful evening in the company of some wonderful poets and musicians. It was good to share two poems that connect me to the District and that celebrate the positive cultural diversity that is Bradford (The Lantern…
I thoroughly enjoyed my return to ‘open mic’ land on Monday with the wonderful David Driver hosting an exclamation of local poets. Up coming this Saturday is an Open Mic with BIASAN, an event that is part of the Bradford…
My visit to W H Smith in Huddersfield (scheduled for Saturday 15th August) has had to be postponed. However, I am doing a live Q&A with my publisher on YouTube at 6pm on Monday 17th August – a kind of…