You will also find Restless Minds contributors Marie Peach-Geraghty, Mark Done, Siân Liddle and Paul Adey published in this years’ NTU MA anthology. So if you’re looking to read new material by any of these authors you can find it in Black Balloon 🙂
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.
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.
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!
Siân has just finished her degree in English and Creative Writing at NTU and will be going on to study the MA in Creative Writing in October. She is from Nottinghamshire and writes her best when it’s raining, so if she ever gets writer’s block she hopes for a storm (which have been in pretty good supply recently). Although Siân enjoys writing the odd play, she mainly writes a mixture of screenplays and prose, focusing on drama and historical fiction.
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