Hi! My name is Linda M. Deane and I’m a writer from Barbados. Welcome to moments that celebrate a love of words, writing and creativity. If poetry and stories are your thing—or even if they aren’t and you’re just looking for distraction from lockdown—then you’ve landed in a good place! Grab a pen and some paper for a writing challenge or just put your listening ears on. You’ll find me on IG @The_Summer_Storyteller, on FB as SummerStoryteller and at artsetcbarbados.com. The Summer Storyteller will always be glad you dropped by!
The Summer Storyteller muses on a favourite Stevie Wonder song | Visual artist and writer Sarah Venable and others share wishlists pre- and post-Covid | Ears on for “3 Wishes, Count ’Em! A Cautionary Pig Tale from the Other Fairy Valley” | Plus an invitation to Write in the Moment using memories and wishes.
14 Jun 2020
WHAT BLACK MOTHERS GO THROUGH
Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of US police in May and the resultant #BlackLivesMatter protests, The Summer Storyteller shares her experiences of racism, and her son Anderson’s experience with the police — a story told against the backdrop of her son’s poetry. Lend her your ears! Feel free to WRITE IN THE MOMENT & submit your poetic thoughts on racism, the protests or blackness in 10 lines or less.
16 May 2020
A MOMENT WITH THE SUMMER STORYTELLER – Poetry is My Passion, What’s Yours?
Listeners share how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their activity and creativity. The Summer Storyteller sets an alliteration/lockdown writing challenge & airs a lockdown poem of her own about her passion.
15 May 2020
A MOMENT WITH THE SUMMER STORYTELLER — A WELCOME & A SELFIE MOMENT!
Welcome to the first ever episode of A Moment with The Summer Storyteller. It took a pandemic and lockdown for this podcast to see the light of day. Ne’er mind! I’m just happy to be sharing a love of words at such a crucial time. In this episode, some lockdown thoughts and in our very first All Write Now segment, How to write: A SELFIE CINQUAIN — Cinquains are neat, five-line poems that play around with the parts of speech. They make a great grammar lesson and creative writing session for children, are useful for brainstorming and mapping projects and ideas, they’re like a mini mental workout for writers—they get the creative juices flowing, and done right, they make for great poems. HAVE A GO!!! HERE’S HOW: Grab pen & paper and start thinking about words and phrases that best describe YOU. Write down several and choose the ones that work best. LINE 1: ONE NOUN (in this case —- your first name!); LINE 2: TWO ADJECTIVES to describe yourself (for a further challenge, extend those adjectives into similes, e.g., tall as... small like...); LINE 3: THREE VERBS or action words ending in “-ing” to describe yourself; LINE 4: ONE clever, thoughtful or funny SENTENCE that sums up who or what you are; LINE 5: ONE SYNONYM for the noun on Line 1 — in other words, a word (two at a push) that also describes or sums you up. Have fun seeing what witty word play, rhymes and rhythms emerge. Send the results to me at https://anchor.fm/linda-deane/message or summerstoryteller1@gmail.com. And you don’t have to write about yourself, you can write a cinquain about ANYTHING! Even about lockdown. Even if you can’t go outside, you can still let your imagination loose! Happy writing, stay safe — The Summer Storyteller
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