Square Cuts

Square Cuts, Flax001 http://www.litfest.org

A series of digitali anthologies from Flax Books, the publishing imprint of Litfest.

The weekly podcasts feature extracts of short fictions from writers across Lancashire and Cumbria, and include tales of ghosts, guns and Walt Disney, in an audio experience that is both entertaining and thought-provoking.

Released every Wednesday from 4 October 2006, leading up to the literature festival which started on 15 November. A live reading event to celebrate the publication of Square Cuts took place on Saturday 18 November, 2pm at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster.

Writers and Titles:

Mollie Baxter - Thinking in Slices (extract)
Ian Seed – Consequences & Shadows
Andrew Michael Hurley - Guns and How they work (extract)
Peter Wild – The Other Side (extract)
Jane Eagland – Wind (extract)
Lynne Alexander – The Whale, a novel (extract)
Hendryk Korzeniowski – Sleeping with Walt Disney (extract)

You can play the tracks direct from the website using the links above or alternatively...

You can subscribe to the podcasti so that you know every time a new episode becomes available. You'll need some (free) software that can handle podcast subscriptions, such as Juice or iTunes. Whichever software you use there will be a menu item along the lines of 'subscribe to podcast'. Juice has a subscriptions tab for this and iTunes has it on the Advanced menu. You need to copy and paste the 'podcast' link below (right click - copy link location or copy shortcuti) into the podcast programme so it knows where to check for new episodes. The audio files will be played in your default media player such as Windows Media player, VLC or iTunes. For Linuxi players a range of audio players are available such as xine and mplayer.

You can also subscribe via the iTunes store at:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=199024874 or search for 'litfest'.

If you have the free open sourcei player VLC installed you can click on th 'm3u' link to load the podcast as a playlist.

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