Nora Al-Rasheed – Where are they now?

Since completing her MA in Creative Writing, Nora travelled to Shanghai, China last fall, and it’s been the biggest adventure of her life. The differences when it comes to culture still surprise her. It’s been almost a year now, and she’s been working in an English speaking training school, for children between the age of 3 to 9. For extra curricular activities, she encourage students to write poems. It’s usually the older ones, and every once in a while, they write poems in colourful cards for parents and grandparents.

She is the only foreign teacher in her school, so it has been a struggle, but she managed to build great relationships with her students, their families and the staff at her school. All in all, it’s been a fantastic experience for her. She is planning on staying there for another year since she has enjoyed the challenge.

You can follow Nora on Instagram:@alrasheed_n.

Speak Your Mind #2 Videos (Part 6)

Here are the final set of videos from Speak Your Mind #2. Thanks again to Kristian Elliott for the videos.

Lauren C. Terry reading her poem from Restless Minds, ‘Priority’.

 

Lauren C. Terry reading David Corbett’s poems from Restless Minds, ‘No Fear’ and ‘Taxi For Sarah’.

 

Kristina Adams reading Nora Al-Rasheed’s poem from Restless Minds, ‘Regrets’.

We would like to thank Dagda Publishing again for giving our contributors the opportunity to read. If you’re ever browsing on YouTube check out Dagda Publishing’s channel!

Speak Your Mind #2 Photos

 

Last Thursday, Restless Minds contributors Kristina Adams and Lauren C. Terry, performed at Speak Your Mind #2. Kristian Elliott and Clare Stevens also read their Restless Minds submissions.

Here are some photos from the night courtesy of Kristian *cough we need a better camera operator*. We also have videos of the readings by our Restless Minds contributors which will be featured on our Youtube account and website very soon.

Divine Cafe

Kristina Adams kick-starting the night with her poem in Restless Minds, ‘Portrait of my Nan in an Arm Chair’. She also read her poems ‘Anxiety’, ‘Domestic Bliss’, Hypoglycemia’ and ‘Thirteen Hours’ not in the anthology

Lauren C. Terry reading her poem in Restless Minds, ‘Priority’. She also read her poems ‘Brick by Brick’, ‘Dust to Dust’ and ‘Marina’ which are not in the anthology

Lauren reading some of her flash fiction not in the anthology ‘ Coffee’. Lauren also read David Corbett’s poems, ‘No Fear’ and ‘Taxi for Sarah’

Clare Stevens reading her short story, ‘The Last Taboo’

Clare Stevens

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

Kristina reading her short story in Restless Minds, ‘The Illusion of Parenting’

Kristina reading Nora Al-Rasheed’s poem, ‘Regrets’

The entire Restless Minds team would like to thank Dagda Publishing for inviting us to read. We’d also like to thank the Divine Cafe for hosting the event and for serving such delicious mince pies, nachos and mulled wine.

More photos to follow!

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!

Restless Minds – LeftLion

Today an article about Restless Minds appeared in LeftLion magazine.

The article includes previews of submissions by Nora Al-Rasheed, Emma Lauren Wisher, and Silvia M. Lopez.

You can check out their submissions in the article here: http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/restless-minds/id/6998

Meet Nora Al-Rasheed

Nora Al-Rasheed is a twenty-four year old MA student in Nottingham Trent University. Born and raised in Kuwait, Nora studied in an English school, where she discovered her love for English Literature and Creative Writing. Image courtesy of Instagram.

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