WELCOME TO... Rosewater Productions
MEET THE CONTRIBUTORS
At Rosewater Productions, we are passionate about creating high-quality podcasts which bring listeners into the world of unique, exciting storytelling. We simply would not be able to accomplish this goal without our brilliant team of contributors!
Jasmine Johnstone
Returning Writer
Jasmine is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. Her short story titled Squeam-ish appears in Episode 2.
Jasmine lives in North-East Scotland with her husband and their five children. She is currently studying Creative Writing with the Open University. She has had a life long love of the Arts, with writing holding her heart, and she enjoys writing short stories, poetry, and novels. Her dream is to be an author people love to read.
Daniel Paton
Contributing Writer
Daniel is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story Rursus appears in Episode 3.
Daniel Paton is a writer with many short fiction publications across print magazines and anthologies such as Sonder, Teach.Write and Open Minds Quarterly, as well as online literary sites such as Timber Ghost Press and The Antonym. As well as prose he also writes stage and screen plays. Having completed his MA in Creative Writing at Queen's University Belfast, he looks to work on longer projects including a debut novel, but may have to finish travelling the world (he's currently living in Australia) to focus on this.
Etornam Agbodo
Contributing Writer
Etornam is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story, Half a Loaf, appears in Episode 6.
Etornam Agbodo was born premature in November 1974. Back then in Ghana, there were limited resources to cater for births such as this, so the doctor was not optimistic Etornam would live, but Etornam lived to bury him. He has written short stories for the Mirror, a Ghanaian weekly newspaper and had a few other online publishings of his work. What he writes is inspired by his day-to-day encounters with the feeble and the wild. Etornam explains: my world itself presents a canvas, so what I cannot draw, I write. I try to give a voice to unheard plights that need hearing.
Richard Nye
Contributing Composer
Richard is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His work can be heard in Episode 6.
Richard is a full-time composer living in the UK. He received his South Bank debut in 2001 with 8 'til Late (8 hands on 2 pianos) performed by Piano40. The work was later released on CD. In 2013 he received his New York debut with the micro-opera Bucca, the composition, set to text by his sister, formed the basis of an award-winning work, Edge of the World.
Richard is currently a house composer for two UK based music production companies, is Composer in Residence for the Wiltshire town of Mere and is also composing the score for a film.
Jimmy Hopper
Contributing Writer
Jimmy is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story, Three Divine Sauces, appears in Episode 7.
Jimmy Hopper works as an IT project manager, so he has plenty of practice writing fiction.
Born in Dublin, he moved to Australia in the eighties and eventually settled in Adelaide. For
his sins he plays banjo in a folk punk band, not really a boy band anymore, the young good-
looking lead singer is 63. Jimmy writes songs and mildly amusing short stories when the
humour is on him.
Mark Rosati
Contributing Writer
Mark is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story, Dad's Ghost, can be found in Episode 8.
Mark Rosati, a Chicago-area writer, is author of 29 full-length and one-act plays and numerous short stories, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. His plays and stories have had productions,
publications and public readings in New York (city and suburbs), Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Michigan, Philadelphia and New Jersey in the US, and internationally in Brighton, UK, Ottawa,
Canada, and New Delhi, India. His most recent production was of his one-act play “Duet” in the Long Beach (NY) Short Play Festival (May 2024). Mark’s short story “Dad’s Ghost” was published in Ironclad Creative (UK)’s Summer 2023 anthology.
Kate Brennan
Contributing Writer
Kate Brennan is a New York-based writer whose work has been printed in publications like New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, and The Story Exchange.
In addition to this, both fiction and nonfiction stories she's written have won awards from Hearst, Scholastic, the BEA Festival and more. She is a Fulbright Germany scholar and serves as a book critic for the online journal Fulbright Chronicles.
Kate's portfolio can be found on her website.
B. D. Bradshaw
Returning Writer
B. D. Bradshaw is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. Her short story, Night and Day, can be heard in Episode 1 and her short story, The Body in the Basement, can be found in Episode 5. She can also be found on social media under @bdbradshawbooks on Facebook and Pinterest.
Simon Kerr
Contributing Writer
Simon is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story titled Surrender appears in Episode 2.
Simon Kerr (he/they pronouns) is a writer and bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is passionate about expressing genderqueer experiences through sci-fi and fantasy and testing the re-steep limit on a pot of tea. His short fiction appears online and in several inaccessible zines. He can be found on Instagram as @laughterpalace.
Deborah Hugill
Contributing Writer
Deborah is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. Her short story, The Real Thing, appears in Episode 5.
Deborah Hugill is a writer from North Yorkshire. She is a published playwright and has won several awards at drama festivals for her one-act plays. She won the virtual Writers’ Weekend short story competition in 2021 and has had success in a number of other short story competitions.
Recent projects include the short play Comfort and Joy, performed for Ghostlight Theatre’s ‘Silent Night’ production, as well as a number of monologues for Act Your Age Productions.
Kate Aranda Nye
Contributing Writer
Kate is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. Her short story, Genesis, can be heard in Episode 6.
Kate Aranda Nye is a published author of Short Stories and Poetry. Her writing is characterised by its descriptive qualities and is often inspired by history and landscape.
Her work has appeared in “Writers Forum” magazine, poetry anthologies and on Spillwords.com. She was featured in a Literary Festival and wrote a winning Christmas ghost story. (The Corpse Road). She often collaborates with her brother, composer Richard Nye, contributing to winning entries in “15 mins of Fame” (Bucca) and “Gorsedh Kernow” (The Bal Maiden). Her series, “Wolfe Lake”, includes scored audio versions of the work.
Max Gallagher
Contributing Writer
Max is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. His short story, Aliens, appears in Episode 7.
Max Gallagher is a disabled author from Northern Ireland. In a previous life he worked as an optometrist and an experimental physicist, but ten years ago fell seriously ill with ME. For most of that time he has been bedbound, and now enjoys creative writing as an outlet. Many of his short stories and poems deal with his illness, but wherever possible he tries to write with humour and imagination.
Lucy Brighton
Contributing Writer
Lucy is a contributor to the Words from Friends podcast. Her short story, Swipe Right, appears in Episode 7.
Lucy is a Barnsley-based writer. She teaches and writes and has ridiculous conversation with her naughty dog, Loki. She can be found on X as @brightwritenow.
Michael Smith
Contributing Writer
Michael Smith is a British writer, based in Europe. The absurdities of life and the international nature of his day job continue to be rich sources of material.
His short stories have been accepted for online publication by Freedom Fiction Journal, Heimat Review, Impspired, Witcraft, Winamop, Fevers of the Mind, The Writers’ Journal, Uppagus, The Hooghly Review, Who Let The Stories Out? and The Expressionist Literary Magazine.
To date, he has self-published ‘Gruseltal’, a humorous novel, and two collections of short stories, ‘Fonts’, then ‘Songs’, all available from online bookstores.
Links to Michael's short stories can be found on his author website.