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Pop-Up Submissions - Runa
May 05, 2019 18:44 - 67.6 MBOn today's Pop-Ups… "Gothengau – Fourth Reich Rising" by William Logan; "Bean" by Louis Garratt; "Second Chance" by Gary Parkins; "La Contessa and the Stallion" by Andrew Bryant; "Virtual Dreams" by Robert Derry. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions - Goblin Sex
April 28, 2019 20:29 - 63.3 MBOn today's Pop-Ups… "Doris" by Brian Striefel; "Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight" by Jeffrey M. Johnstone; "The Previous Occupants" by Annette Colgan; "The Other Side Of Madness" by Justin Suckley; "Tooth and Claw" by Sam Grindstaff. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions: Kakorrhaphiophobia
April 21, 2019 19:29 - 72.8 MBOn today's Pop-Ups… "Cows Can't Jump" by Philip; "Before Thatcher" by David John Ashfield; "Flat Earthers Around the Globe" by James Egan; "Truth in Tragedy" by Kelvin J Troy; "Wayfinder" by C.W. Evans. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions, 14 April
April 14, 2019 18:42 - 64.3 MBOn today's Pop-Ups… "A Moment in Time" by David; "Stiletto Heels And Ankle Socks" by Eva Ulian; "The Keeper Of The Past" by Marianna Raye; "Food, Recipe for Superstition" by Kim Kaur; "Psycho-Mortem" by James Baker. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions, 7 April
April 07, 2019 17:49 - 65.1 MBOn today's show... "Evera After" by Jessica Freeland; "The Book of Revelations" by Tony Franklin; "Spin Cycle" by Mark Parry; "Folked Up" by Charlotte Byrne; "The Trail" by James Ellson. For maximum writing goodness, join us LIVE at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions, 31 March
April 07, 2019 17:28 - 69.5 MBOn today's show... "Journey to the Heart of the Sun" by Jeremy Kuper; "The Bluehorn Experiment" by MacNeal Kent; "The Caliph of Qasbat Al Noor" by Elena Scialtiel; "Trouble in Paradise" by Racine Hiet; "Raw Sexuality, or A Year of Indiscretion" by Michael Fleischer. For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs Join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here!
Pop-Up Submissions, 24 March
March 24, 2019 19:02 - 74.6 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's "Russian Spring" by Ben Dymott; "The Moon Field" by Diane Doona; "Bad People" by Max Morpheus; "Perpetuus Island" by Matt Kenny; "Raven" by Tim Pearsall. Plus... special guest crime novelist RC Bridgestock! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here.
Pop-Up Submissions, 17 March
March 17, 2019 19:55 - 67 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Kevin Klatman; "Woke" by Oliver Cowmeadow; "Why Was I Thinking That?! " by Dana Lichtstrahal; "Another Man's Shoes" by John Lawrance; "The Rising of the Son" by Giles Dawnay; "Home Is Wherever I Am With You" by Karan Joshi. Join us at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on...
Pop-Up Submissions, 3 March
March 03, 2019 19:33 - 82.1 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's "Isobel" by Paul Vasper, "50 Things We Could All Be More Grateful For" by Luke Harding, "Soul Hosts" by Joseph Isaacs, "The Tree in the Sky" by Aron Kirk, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by Edward Matthews. Join us at 5pm UK every Sunday! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here.
Pop-Up Submissions, 24 February
February 24, 2019 19:28 - 68.3 MBOn today's Pop-Ups: Hazard by Cadeem Lalor; Let Freedom Ring by Adeel Javaid; CSCO: First Station by Dave Pendleton; Shadow of the Eclipse by L. A. Kelley & Mirrors by Sharon Sheridan. Join us at 5pm UK! For the winner of the show, visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here.
Pop-Up Submissions, 17 February
February 17, 2019 19:31 - 64.2 MBA special show with acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg! On today's Pop-Ups: The Writings of Hexes by Jack James; The Recession Creatures by Jayson Scott Adams; Jason and The Argonauts by Thomas Moulson; I Was a Scout by Chris Wilkes & Hecate's Tree by H. Quin. And a new start time, 5pm UK! For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK ...
Pop-Up Submissions, 10 February
February 10, 2019 20:05 - 80.2 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's... "Grant Me Serenity" by Danny Falcone, "Music of Revolution" by Tony Holland, "The Hack Pack – Captive" by Jane Dyer, "The World Is Rigged" by Dustin Rigg, "The Girl From Our Moon" by Rebecca Anne Bishop and "The Purple Apple" by Robert Margetts. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here.
Pop-Up Submissions, 3 February
February 10, 2019 19:45 - 83.4 MBOn today’s Pop-Ups there's “Warm Waters” by George Hopewell, “Now the Tyrants” by John L Smith, “If Your AI Loses It's Mind, Can It Take Meds?” by Peter McAllister, “Become An Email Ninja: Seven steps to getting more done faster in email” by Ralph T. Soule, “The Fairy Codex” by Flora-Beth Edwards and Trinity's Legacy by Paul Vasey. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us l...
Pop-Up Submissions, 27th January
February 10, 2019 19:11 - 75.8 MBOn today’s Pop-Ups there’s “Fat Old Model” by Georgie Bleza, “Subcontracted Heroes” by Sam Ross, “Grief: The Inside Story” by Pat Bertram, “The Scariest Story Ever Told” by Seamus Smyth, “No Fourth River” by Christine Clayfield and “Mace Dory” by Sandra Robb. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.co...
Pop-Up Submissions, 20th January
February 09, 2019 17:15 - 75.8 MBOn today’s Pop-Ups there’s modern gothic from Gillian, literary thriller from Brendon, murder suspense from Martin, historical adventure from Steve, futurist from J.M. and a thriller from Michelle. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
Pop-Up Submissions, 13th January
February 04, 2019 10:02 - 81.5 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's women's fiction/romance from Corinna, literary fiction from David, science fiction from Mike, a chapter book from Zoltan, mainstream general fiction from Ann and a political thriller from Sam. For the winner of the show, please visit https://litopia.com/winners. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ And do remember to join us live, every week, on Sunday at 5pm UK time, details here https://litopia.com/subs.
Pop-Up Submissions, 16th December
December 19, 2018 17:49 - 72 MBOn today's Pop-Ups there's YA fantasy from Andrew; Humorous Women's Fiction from Rachel; YA Alternate History Adventure from Andrew; Superhero fiction from ST; Horror/thriller from Matt and fantasy from Pete. You can make a Pop-Up Submission here: https://litopia.com/subs/ We're off for our winter break now, but we're back on Sunday 13th January!
The Satanic Clause
December 07, 2018 16:18 - 25 minutes - 25.6 MBOur usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
The Binding of Isaac by Omri Boehm
August 07, 2018 17:28 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBA reinterpretation of Genesis 22, Abraham nearly sacrificing his son Isaac, that blew my mind. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t q...
Pop-Up Submissions, 5th August
August 05, 2018 21:33 - 25 minutes - 92.6 MBTraditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented i...
Pop-Up Submissions, 29th July
July 29, 2018 20:30 - 25 minutes - 80.7 MBTraditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commented i...
Pop-Up Submissions, 22nd July
July 22, 2018 20:54 - 25 minutes - 100 MBTraditionally the manuscript submission process has been cloaked in mystery. “No writer really understands how their submissions are evaluated,” explains literary agent Peter Cox. “It often takes many weeks for writers to get a response. And a rejection slip explains nothing.” Last year, Litopia made history when it opened up the submissions process to public scrutiny. Every Sunday, Peter reviewed his submission pile on Facebook Live; while the authors themselves watched and even commente...
Drunk on Virtue?
June 22, 2018 15:05 - 25 minutes - 30 MBOur usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page. Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there: https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Moods by Yoel Hoffmann
June 14, 2018 08:37 - 20 minutes - 10 MBStart a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft...
Libraries are Having a #MeToo Moment
May 19, 2018 10:44 - 25 minutes - 26.3 MBOur usual eclectic round-up of news and back-fence talk from the gossipy worlds of publishing and the law, hosted by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. This is the audio-only version of Litopia's show that's broadcast live, in living colo[u]r on our Facebook page. Listen to the audio here, or watch the video there: https://www.facebook.com/RealLitopia Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damnum Injuria Datum
April 13, 2018 16:13 - 25 minutes - 27 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar
March 30, 2018 12:58 - 20 minutes - 13.5 MBA soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as we...
I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Zachary Lazar
March 17, 2018 11:04 - 20 minutes - 17.4 MBFrom King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the id...
Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy
March 07, 2018 10:21 - 20 minutes - 29 MBInterview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pl...
Netanya by Dror Burstein
January 01, 2018 17:02 - 20 minutes - 16.5 MBIs it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthropology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite ma...
Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom
November 29, 2017 17:42 - 20 minutes - 11.5 MBPermanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose full time job is to attend funerals – all this and much, much, much more. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, th...
Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
November 06, 2017 19:14 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBThe man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this chapter by chapter account of what goes wrong when you add the human element to a simple ideological cataclysm. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (an...
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua
October 25, 2017 18:50 - 20 minutes - 17 MBA heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still alive. Burning Books is back with a brand new season! Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, th...
The Rise & Fall of Harvey Weinstein
October 13, 2017 16:29 - 25 minutes - 31.5 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Loggers & Wiseguys
July 07, 2017 16:55 - 25 minutes - 28.2 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Writers Of The World, Unite!
April 28, 2017 22:25 - 25 minutes - 28.4 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
April 11, 2017 09:19 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBPart One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine of so-called national so-called liberation. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at t...
God Loves The Plagiarist
April 09, 2017 12:14 - 25 minutes - 32.7 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
The Consolation Of Narcissism
March 03, 2017 16:45 - 25 minutes - 24.3 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Author Vs Literary Agent Smackdown
February 17, 2017 16:27 - 25 minutes - 22.5 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Three Deaths – Josip Novakovich
February 16, 2017 17:08 - 20 minutes - 12.2 MBA sliver of a book unfolds as a triptych, brilliant and beautiful, the subtlest of writing making the greatest of waves. Featuring Walter Benjamin.. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well ...
Some Do Not . . . – Ford Madox Ford
January 20, 2017 20:31 - 20 minutes - 12.5 MBSomebody please hand me a glossary of terrible non-puns from the 1910s, although no post-rationalisation is going to save this dip into the addled mind of a bureaucratic toff. By the author of some very good novels as well as this one. Dot and carry one, WHATEVER THAT MEANS. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, ...
Publishing Without Consent
January 20, 2017 16:41 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
The Panopticon of Fear
January 06, 2017 16:59 - 25 minutes - 13.5 MBThe latest news, gossip and insight from the sharp end of the media world, brought to you by Donna in Florida and Peter in London. Download the show as mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes
Joseph Boyden: Who Are You, Really?
December 27, 2016 17:22 - 25 minutes - 25.1 MBWithout a doubt, it was our worst-ever show. We never had a guest walk out on us before; the shitstorm that followed saw us branded all over the Internet as racially-insensitive bigots. The author’s publicist swore never to work within us again, and insinuated that he’d try to pull us off the air. All this happened because the Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden walked out of the studio when invited by host Ian Winn to discuss his First Nation origins. We thought at the time – and still do –...
Regeneration – Pat Barker
December 16, 2016 17:58 - 20 minutes - 17 MBPart one of Pat Barker’s justly renowned trilogy about WWI (re)introduces us to Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Dr William Rivers and Billy Prior – all men who have been changed beyond recognition by a new, modern mode of civilisation destruction – wash, rinse, repeat. With additional cameos by Erich Maria Remarque and Modris Eksteins. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, h...
My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
December 01, 2016 14:55 - 20 minutes - 10.9 MBElena is friends with Lila, whom hurts Elena in all kinds of ways that Elena finds fascinating, and painful. Slums, slums, slums, creepy older men, and not a single moment of levity. Prepare yourself. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ...
School of Velocity – Eric Beck Rubin
November 27, 2016 14:46 - 20 minutes - 11.5 MBJan and Dirk were inseparable as teenagers, right up till the moment they separated. That didn’t end the friendship, though, which lives on even as the two grow estranged from one another. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that a...
River of Smoke – Amitav Ghosh
November 21, 2016 12:43 - 25 minutes - 19.6 MBPart Two of Ghosh’s ‘Ibis’ Trilogy looks at the run-up to the Opium Wars. From Bombay to Canton, Mauritius to Malacca – set sail for adventure, knowledge, and a number of excellent descriptions of the twists and turns of the early 18th century, globalised drug trade. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking ...
The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
November 10, 2016 11:39 - 25 minutes - 14.5 MBNew Jersey stands in for Algeria, not that Frank Bascombe would have noticed, living the good life and everything’s okay and nothing bears too much looking into – like the giant chasm of nothingness opening up beneath his feet. With guest appearances from Steinbeck, Faulkner and AC himself. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from th...