Liza Krejci

Liza Krejci – Where are they now?

Liza currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she is involved in the Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, writing plays and short stories while breaking into the not-for-profit field of Grant Writing.

Group Photos

Here are some more photos from the end of launch night, featuring (almost) all the contributors. All photos are courtesy of Mark James.

Rory Waterman admiring the anthology

Rory Waterman

Rory talking about how awesome we all are

Rory inviting all contributors on stage

Stage fright?

Most of the group

From left to right: Kristina Adams, Kristian Elliott, Silvia M. Lopez, Liza Krejci, Marie Peach-Geraghty, Ben Field, David Corbett, Paul Adey, Drew Cross. Hidden behind Ben Field: Nick Jowett, Mark Done, Lauren C. Terry.

Check out our other launch night photos here.

Intervals

Here are some more photos taken during the intervals. All photos are courtesy of Mark James.

The bar area

Comfy chairs! Emma Wisher is hiding away with her family in the top right corner

Georgina Lock, William Ivory and Mark Done

Drew Cross getting in the zone

Ben Field and Liza Krejci

Georgina Lock, William Ivory and Jon Plummer

More photos to come over the next few days and weeks! Check out our other launch night photos here.

Team Fiction!

Here are some more photos of our readers from launch night, our beloved fiction writers. All photos are courtesy of Mark James.

Oliver Clark reads from his piece ‘The Dinner Party’

Liza Krejci reads her short story ‘Last of the Great Mountain Giants’

Liza Krejci

Nick Jowett reads his short story ‘What is that Smell?’

Nick Jowett

Paul Adey reads his short story, ‘M6’

Paul Adey

Paul Adey

L. D. Lapinski reads her short story ‘London Underground’

L. D. Lapinski

Drew Cross reads his travel writing piece ‘Chicken’s Feet’

Drew Cross

Clare Stevens closed the night with her piece ‘The Last Taboo’

Clare Stevens

Clare Stevens

More photos to come over the next few days and weeks! Check out our other launch night photos here.

Congratulations Graduates!

Today is a special day for many of our Restless Minds contributors. Today, some of them from the MA Creative Writing course, graduate from Nottingham Trent University!

Here are the list of Restless Minds contributors graduating today (although not all of them can attend the ceremony):

Nora Al-Rasheed
Kristina Adams
Oliver Clark
Kristian Elliott
Ben Field
Shila C. George
Nick Jowett
Liza Krejci
L.D. Lapinski
Silvia M. Lopez
Peter Newman
Clare Stevens
Emma Lauren Wisher

On behalf of the whole Restless Minds Team we wish them all the best, every single one of them have worked hard for their degree and put so much time and effort into the anthology.

Congratulations to you all!

Behind the Scenes

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Here’s a few more behind the scenes photos from the book launch on October 9th, courtesy of Mark James. You can follow him on Twitter.

Silvia M. Lopez, Ben Field, and Kristian Elliott sort the reserved copies. Well, Ben and Kristian anyway…

Ben Field, Kristian Elliott, Marie Peach-Geraghty, and Clare Stevens hard at work

Smile!

Kristina Adams running through her lines with her partner

Kristina Adams and Carl Jackson

Liza setting up the images and screen captions for later…or on Facebook…Twitter…Lord of the Rings?

Marie Peach-Geraghty, Ben Field, Silvia M. Lopez

Marie Peach-Geraghty and her husband, Tom

Drew Cross and L. D. Lapinski; Oliver Clark reading in the corner

Silvia M. Lopez: “Drinks are on me!” or “Help me escape, they just told me I’m reading!”

More photos to come over the next few days and weeks! Check out our other launch night photos here.

Festival of Words: Photos

Liza Krejci reads her short story, ‘The Last of the Great Mountain Giants’

Last Saturday, readers that included Restless Minds contributors, read at Nottingham Festival of Words. It was a chronological reading, with stories and poems, that started in pre-history and finished at an undetermined point in the future to give this sense of movement through time. It was an exciting and unique opportunity for our readers and we sold our remaining copies of Restless Minds.

Here are some photos to commemorate the day, courtesy of Kristina Adams:

Liza Krejci

Rory Waterman, Drew Cross, Sarah Jackson, Kristian Elliott, and Andrew Taylor

Sarah Jackson reads her poems, ‘Doubles’, ‘Host’, ‘Cinder’, and ‘Kola Superdeep’

Kristian Elliott reading from his novel, ‘The Enigma of Thornwood’

Lecturer Andrew Taylor reads his poems ‘Push Bar to Open’ and ‘Set Sail’

The audience (Photo courtesy of Andrew Taylor)

Check out Nottingham Festival of Words, Facebook and Twitter pages for all the photos and reviews of last weeks events!

Reader Bios:

After many years abroad, Zeynab Allak returned to the UK four years ago and began writing. She is now completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Her thesis explores how the voice might be described as a traveller and ways in which both travelling and writing are uncanny.

Becky Cullen graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 2013 and has now started an AHRC-funded PhD exploring poetry, time and temporality. Recent poems have been published in The North, The Interpreter’s House and PN Review.

Jo Dixon is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing. In October she began a practice-led PhD in poetry funded by the AHRC. Recently her poems have appeared in New Walk, The Interpreter’s House and Furies: A Poetry Anthology of Women Warriors, published by For Books’ Sake.

Restless Minds Bios:

Drew Cross, Kristian Elliott, Sarah Jackson, Liza Krejci, Siân Liddle, Andrew Taylor, Rory Waterman.

Enter The Stars

Kristina Adams – The MC

Here are more photos from launch night, this time they’re all of our wonderful readers. All the photos were taken by our amazing photographer, Mark James. You can follow him on Twitter @neonshuffle. Click here for Mark’s blog.

William Ivory gets the crowd going with his inspiring speech

Mark Done reading his poems, ‘Canal’ and ‘Manor Street’

Lecturer Andrew Taylor reads his poems ‘Push Bar to Open’ and ‘Set Sail’

Liza Krejci reads her short story, ‘The Last of the Great Mountain Giants’

Liza Krejci

Liza Krejci

Kristian Elliott reading from his novel extract, ‘The Enigma of Thornwood’

Former vicar Nick Jowett reads his short story ‘What is that Smell?’

Marie Peach-Geraghty reading her short story, ‘Locking Up’

Marie Peach-Geraghty

Undergrad and lyricist Paul Adey reads his short story, ‘M6’

Sarah Jackson reads her poem, ‘Host’

Our tribute to former lecturer Graham Joyce was led by Sarah Jackson

Course leader and proud father Rory Waterman reading his poems, ‘St Thomas’s’ and ‘Sots Hole’

Kristina Adams reading her poem, ‘Portrait of my Nan as an Armchair’, and her short story, ‘The Illusion of Parenting’

Young Adult writer Silvia M. Lopez reading from ‘Surviving the Outernet’

Silvia M. Lopez

Oliver Clark reading an extract from his novella, ‘The Dinner Party’

Oliver Clark

Drew Cross reading his short story, ‘Chicken’s Feet’

Drew Cross

Undergrad Lauren C. Terry reading her poem, ‘Priority’

L.D. Lapinski reading her short story, ‘London Underground’

L.D. Lapinski

Jonathan Taylor

Jonathan Taylor reading his short story, ‘Must Sound Genuine’

Our final reader of the night, Clare Stevens, reading from her short story, ‘The Last Taboo’

We still have more photos to post and a few videos to upload, all taken by Mark James, so stay tuned.

Click here for the first lot of photos.

Festival of Words Today!

In a few hours, multiple readers from Restless Minds and a few other writers, will be reading from 10:45am, at Nottingham Trent University Newton Building, Lecture Theater 5.

Make sure you arrive on time, you won’t want to miss a thing!

Contributors Reading:

Drew Cross, Kristian Elliott, Sarah Jackson, Liza Krejci, Siân Liddle, Andrew Taylor, and Rory Waterman.

Calm Before the Storm

Drew Cross getting in the zone

The Restless Minds launch on the 9th October was a complete success. So many people came to support us, the atmosphere was incredible and we sold out of books on the night! If you came to listen to us read, thank you for supporting us and buying our book.

Thank you to those of you who have since bought a copy of Restless Minds from Five Leaves, we really appreciate it and hope you enjoy the book as much as we all enjoyed writing it.

You can still listen to a few contributors read on Saturday 18th October at 10:45 for the Festival of Words!

Here are some photos from the start of the night. The featured image and images below were taken by photographer, Mark James. You can follow him on Twitter:@neonshuffle. Click here for Mark’s blog.