The Highlights of 2014

2014 was a year of challenges and successes.

From January to September the Restless Minds team worked tirelessly to establish the anthology!

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09/10/2014 – We had our book launch! (Check out the videos Part 1, 2, 3, 4). We even sold out on the night, a feat never achieved by any MA anthology before!

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18/10/2014 – Along came Nottingham Festival of Words where we organised our second print run!

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31/10/2014 – For Halloween the Restless Minds Team had many creative treats for all:

12/11/2014 – Kicking off Jazz & Poetry Night, with Four in the Bar, Mathew Sweeney and Cathy Grindrod, was a lot of fun!

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29/11/2014 – Many members of the Restless Minds team graduated from Nottingham Trent University!

11/12/2014 – Restless Minds was invited to Speak Your Mind #2 (run by Dagda Publishing). Check out the videos (Part 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6).

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Then winter came and left but not without some holiday themed treats.

You’ve seen our many faces and listened to what we’ve had to say.

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But most importantly you’ve bought our book, read our creative pieces, and supported us throughout.
– 206 Likes on Facebook.
– 114 Followers on Twitter.
– 200+ views on YouTube.
– 3.1k+ Hits on WordPress.
And all four are still climbing!

2014 was a fantastic year for Restless Minds and we hope to make 2015 even better. Thank you for all your support and please stick with us as we have more events planned and a few more surprises to unveil. Happy 2015 to you all!

Don’t forget, copies of Restless Minds are available from Five Leaves Bookshop and The Bookcase!

Events

EVENTS PAGE COMING SOON!

12/11/2014 – Jazz & Poetry with Matthew Sweeney & Cathy Grindrod – Guitar Bar (8pm)
18/10/2014 – Nottingham Festival of Words – NTU Newton Building Lecture Theatre 5 (10:45am)
09/10/2014 – Restless Minds Launch – Antenna (6:30pm)

A New Chapter?

We’re having a meeting right now to discuss the next step for Restless Minds. We hope to announce something over the coming days, so stay tuned!

There still more photos and videos from the launch to come. Click here for the current set of photos. Check out the photos from Nottingham Festival of Words here.

If there was a reader you liked, or you read a creative piece you thoroughly enjoyed, you can find out more about some of our contributors here. Click this link for all of our contributor bios.

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.

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.

Festival of Words!

This Saturday (18th October) several of our writers are going to be reading at Nottingham Festival of Words, the details of which you can see in the flyer above.

We may have 1 or 2 copies of Restless Minds left to sell so we will bring them to the event (£5.99).

There are also writers reading not affiliated with Restless Minds, but they are very talented with amazing pieces to read, so come down and enjoy the readings. Don’t forget to check out the other Festival of Words events during the 13th-19th of October!