The Sports Group has launched a podcast: Sports Shorts from WRN. Get the latest women's sport campaign news from the team, plus updates on our autumn-winter actions, including parkrun (5th October), football (the 72 campaign), netball updates, and our weekly features, "sin bin" and "star of the week".

In this first episode, the team talk us through the latest parkrun campaigning and they discuss the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team and legendary coach of Chelsea FC, Emma Hayes and her new book A Completely Different Game: My Leadership Playbook.

We welcome feedback and any women's sports news from around the UK.

Author Drew Augustine returns to the WRN podcast to read an extract from her crime thriller, The Twenty Murders, a dark and compelling story set amidst the culture wars.

As its protagonist Detective Constable Morven MacLeod goes undercover, we are drawn into the fury and fear that descends upon a women's meeting.

WRN Scotland's Mary Howden hosts a book group discussion with Drew Augustine about her first gender critical novel, the crime thriller Twenty Murders, which follows the hunt for a serial killer in Scotland. Set against and influenced by real events, Drew explains how she wanted to write a book with purpose and one that would surface the issues around gender ideology, not just for women and children, but in the capturing of our institutions, and how she will always find space for romance and a dog in her novels.

By Claire Loneragan

2024 will be an election year. We will have local elections in many constituencies, Police and Crime Commissioner elections and almost certainly a general election.

Elaine Miller knows what’s involved and explains all to WRN’s Zoe in this conversation where you can hear about Elaine’s experience of running in a by-election as an independent candidate.

If you have thought about running as a candidate yourself, Zoe and Elaine discuss how to go about it and how to access a pack that Elaine has put together to help women who decide to stand in local or general elections.

Hustings are where political candidates meet us – the electorate – and we get to quiz those candidates about their plans and what they think about the issues that matter to us.

But someone has to organise them, and if there aren’t any hustings in your area, maybe that could be you.

Zoe and Elaine talk about how to run a hustings and how to ask killer questions at any hustings you attend.

There has never been a more important time for women to be politically involved, whether that's running as a candidate, supporting a candidate or holding their local candidates to account.

So let’s hear what Zoe and Elaine have to say.

WRN is pleased to bring you The Famous Artist Birdy Rose. Another woman working in the Arts, who has been cancelled.

Birdy Rose is an artist and talked to us about:

• her experiences growing up and how being born deaf inspired her creativity
• how her artistic career developed
• being cancelled, for her and her musician partner
• her new project with Louise Distras #TerfIsTheNewPunk

Birdy is on X:
https://twitter.com/TheFamousArtBR

Birdy's website, where else to find her and where to buy her art and merchandise:
https://thefamousartistbirdyrose.com/

Terf Is the New Punk:
https://twitter.com/terfpunks

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WRN is pleased to being you Louise Distras. Yet another woman working in the Arts, who has been cancelled.

Louise is a musician and talked to us about:

• growing up and becoming homeless with the vulnerability that brings
• musical and own life experience influences
• how her musical career developed
• all about the human condition
• (self) censorship, cancellation and its psychological effects
• meeting Anne Scargill, women organising and their songs
• art versus propaganda
• women's rights, freedom of speech and Freedom of the Arts

Louise is on X: https://twitter.com/LouiseDistras

Louise's website, where else to find her and where to buy her music: https://www.louisedistras.com/

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Credit Image Photo of Louise Distras - Creator: Stefan Müller | Credit: Stefan Müller