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Writing Hour Roundup: 2 February 2021 By Without further ado, here are the answers to your questions all collected in one place. Are you looking for stories set in summer at the moment? Yes! Have you managed to get to the office to retrieve postal submissions recently? No, due to local regulations we haven’t been able to access the office to pick them up for a good while. We thank everybody waiting on a response for their patience! Would you consider any other genre for Pocket Novels? For example sci-fi or fantasy? No, we stick to the same genres our readers like to see in the magazine.

Or should that be listeners! It’s been a great project to work on. It’s really satisfying to unearth a gem of a story in our Archives, and it’s exciting when we get to share it with all of you. A few people have been in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter to pass on their feedback — which has all been very encouraging. And one or two have even been nice enough to leave us reviews in their podcast app. We thought we’d share those reviews with you here.     We couldn’t agree more! It’s really struck us that many of the stories we find — from the late 1800s to the early 20th ...

Like a lot of workplaces, the “Friend” office runs a Secret Santa every Christmas. When we were all still in the office, this involved picking a colleague’s name out of a hat, and heading off into town to pick them up a gift. The gifts would go under the office tree until Christmas Eve, when we’d get together to open them before heading off for lunch. It was exciting! Photograph courtesy of “The People’s Friend” A little different But that didn’t stop us! Fiction team’s Abbie took on the administration this year, using drawnames.co.uk to randomly assign us all people to buy...

Not The Features Ed Blog: Podcast Recording By The first episode, with Features Ed Alex, Mairi from the Features team, and Digital Ed Iain was great fun. The second . . . almost didn’t happen! Well, it did, but it was touch and go whether I was going to make it to the mic, or to be more accurate, the mic was going to make it to me. You see, as we’re all still working from home, and few of us have a studio-quality microphone with which to make a recording, a certain amount of technical equipment has to shuttle back and forth between us all.