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Sharing What I Know to Help Others to Grow Interviews with budding, new and established writers, authors and journalists who are actively pursuing their writing dreams. These interviews will inspire, inform and support other budding, new and established writers too. Broadcasts on a range of issues relating to writing and publishing overseas, including such topics as motivation, networking, writers' block, writers' circles, feedback and all other aspects of the writing process....
Crafts/Hobbies, Education, WIN U.K., Inspiration

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Welcome to our show "Animal Rescue: Where to go, What to do, How to help". We are best friends....Barbara Niven and Phyllis Botti...and we both share a passion for animals and spend a lot...
Lori takes photos of Death Row dogs to help get them adopted
Everyone has a talent they can use to help with animal rescue. Lori volunteers for Karma Rescue in Los Angeles and photographs the dogs to help them find a home. You can help in so many ways too....
Lori and her rescue dog "Georgie"
This animal rescue show is dedicated to all of the animals we have helped, but who have since passed over the Rainbow Bridge. We miss you. You gave us so much more than we ever gave you! Randy...
Julia Simens, author of Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child, shares her writing journey   Jo Parfitt speaks to Julia about how and why she wrote her book and what its publication is...
Tina Quick, author of The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition shares her writing, publishing and marketing journey In this fascinating interview, Jo Parfitt talks to Tina Quick,...
Jo Parfitt asks Linda Janssen about her writing journey so far Six months ago American in Holland, Linda Janssen, had a dream that one day she would be a freelance writer. Now she has attended...
I talk to an expat in The Hague, who wrote her powerful memoir and published it along with an audiobook and music CD, in less than 12 months. Her book went from brainwave to bookshelf ... to...
Cover of Amsterdam - the essence
After a successful career working for Canon in international sales and marketing, Brit, David Beckett, decided to realise a dream and write a book based on the place he had been living for many...
In Their Own Voice - intercultural meaning in everyday stories
Dr Anne Copeland is a clinical psychologist whose business, The Interchange Institute, has produced many books over the years for internationals and newcomers. Her latest book grew out of a writers...
write life story
As this is the eighth show in the series it is maybe time you found out about me, the interviewer here at Writers Abroad. Find out about all the books I have written from French Tarts to A Moving...
Black and Abroad
A few years ago, Carolyn Vines was writing her memoir about being a black woman living overseas when she woke up one morning with the title Black and Abroad in her head. Later, this became the name...
Jo Parfitt photo
Journalist, Renata Harper, talks to me about the process of writing my novel, Sunshine Soup, to be published in September 2011. We talk about the pain of writing, confidence, feedback, support,...
Spain - expat survival guide
I talk to inspiring, motivated and funny, Brit, Yolanda Solo, about how she kind of 'fell' into a career as a writer when, having moved to Spain with her family, she lost her job. It all...
Dominican Republic - Expat FAQs
Just out, this great book is just SO simple. It answers all the Frequently Asked Questions about moving to the DR, in a straightforward who, where, what, when, why and how format. Ilana is the co-...
Beyond Broken Families, Kathleen McAnear Smith - book cover
Kathleen is an example of someone who has taken her 30 years of personal and professional experience and turned that into two useful, engaging and deeply inspiring books. Kathleen is an American...

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Vinita is a photographer and Persephone a musician and writer. They met in Gouda at a Living With a Dutchie meeting and decided to collaborate on a much-needed guidebook to the beautiful city in...
American Shirley Agudo has been in the Netherlands for almost 20 years. She calls herself a determined writer who has worked hard to be successful in her field. To date she has written six books...
I speak to PR consultant, Rebecca Law, about how she has used social media to raise awareness of the charity she works for. Learn how she uses Twitter, a Facebook page and an active blog in order...
I talk to a PR professional who has worked with major publishers such as Hodder and Little Brown about how expat authors can best get publicity and write compelling press releases for their books.
I talk to Nina Sichel, co-editor of the anthology Unrooted Childhoods, about her second anthology, called Writing Out of Limbo, published in December 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Nina...
Elka Ray is a Canadian expat living in Vietnam. She went there in 1995 with the aim of finding work as a journalist, knowing this was the best way to earn a living and stay abroad. Today she also a...
A Tight Wide Open Space
Matt Krause went to Turkey in 2003 to follow his heart and fell in love with living abroad. His memoir, A Tight Wide Open Space, shares his story of coming to terms, changing perceptions,...
Expat Teens Talk
Two expats, one a mother of bilingual expat teens, one a psychologist, met in Singapore and realised that expat teens have a tough time finding the support and advice they need in transient times....
I am delighted to welcome back Linda Lodding, author of children's book, The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister, to my radio show. Last week I talked to her about how she wrote, edited and...
The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister
New Yorker, Linda Lodding, talks to Jo Parfitt about how she found a US publisher for her children's book while living abroad. Find out what you need to know about word counts, working with an...
Perking the Pansies
Jack Scott recently published his memoir, Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey. In this candid interview he talks about how the book began as a blog after he and his partner, Liam,...
Douglas John McLean Cairns used to hide behind the persona of Sid Ozalid, the one-legged tap dancing poet. It was as Sid that he became well known on radio and TV in the late 70s and early 80s and...
at home in Dubai
When a professional writer and PR expert writes a book you can bet that she knows what she is doing. Anne O'Connell began with the end in mind when she began work on @home in Dubai, a book that...
The Thinking Tank
Jae de Wylde began life as a French and German teacher and was a bit of a closet expat and writer. But when her daughter died in 1999, Jae found herself reassessing what she wanted to do with her...
Foreign Flavours
I spoke to Angela Williams, who writes as Susan Carey not only about the Writers Abroad online writers' circle to which she belongs, but also about their newest anthology of fine writings,...

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Welcome to our show "Animal Rescue: Where to go, What to do, How to help". We are best friends....Barbara Niven and Phyllis Botti...and we both share a passion for animals and spend a lot...
Crafts/Hobbies

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Vinita is a photographer and Persephone a musician and writer. They met in Gouda at a Living With a Dutchie meeting and decided to collaborate on a much-needed guidebook to the beautiful city in...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
American Shirley Agudo has been in the Netherlands for almost 20 years. She calls herself a determined writer who has worked hard to be successful in her field. To date she has written six books...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
I speak to PR consultant, Rebecca Law, about how she has used social media to raise awareness of the charity she works for. Learn how she uses Twitter, a Facebook page and an active blog in order...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
I talk to a PR professional who has worked with major publishers such as Hodder and Little Brown about how expat authors can best get publicity and write compelling press releases for their books.
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
I talk to Nina Sichel, co-editor of the anthology Unrooted Childhoods, about her second anthology, called Writing Out of Limbo, published in December 2011 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Nina...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
Elka Ray is a Canadian expat living in Vietnam. She went there in 1995 with the aim of finding work as a journalist, knowing this was the best way to earn a living and stay abroad. Today she also a...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
A Tight Wide Open Space
Matt Krause went to Turkey in 2003 to follow his heart and fell in love with living abroad. His memoir, A Tight Wide Open Space, shares his story of coming to terms, changing perceptions,...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
Expat Teens Talk
Two expats, one a mother of bilingual expat teens, one a psychologist, met in Singapore and realised that expat teens have a tough time finding the support and advice they need in transient times....
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
I am delighted to welcome back Linda Lodding, author of children's book, The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister, to my radio show. Last week I talked to her about how she wrote, edited and...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister
New Yorker, Linda Lodding, talks to Jo Parfitt about how she found a US publisher for her children's book while living abroad. Find out what you need to know about word counts, working with an...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
Perking the Pansies
Jack Scott recently published his memoir, Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey. In this candid interview he talks about how the book began as a blog after he and his partner, Liam,...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
Douglas John McLean Cairns used to hide behind the persona of Sid Ozalid, the one-legged tap dancing poet. It was as Sid that he became well known on radio and TV in the late 70s and early 80s and...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
at home in Dubai
When a professional writer and PR expert writes a book you can bet that she knows what she is doing. Anne O'Connell began with the end in mind when she began work on @home in Dubai, a book that...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
The Thinking Tank
Jae de Wylde began life as a French and German teacher and was a bit of a closet expat and writer. But when her daughter died in 1999, Jae found herself reassessing what she wanted to do with her...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration
Foreign Flavours
I spoke to Angela Williams, who writes as Susan Carey not only about the Writers Abroad online writers' circle to which she belongs, but also about their newest anthology of fine writings,...
Crafts/HobbiesEducationWIN U.K.Inspiration