Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, recently published by Comma Press, gathers ten fictions by writers from cities of varying affluence, nature and distance in contemporary China, not to mention the varying styles of prose and stances of the protagonists. Dispelling the naive notion of a vast land of unified thinking, Shi Cheng (“ten [...]
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Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China
July 9th, 2012 No Comments
Tags: book · creative writing · inspiration
Writer App
June 14th, 2011 No Comments
Instead of featuring a publication today, I’m looking at something which might aid in creating one. Writer, by Information Architects, is an ultra minimal word processing application for Mac and iPad, designed to hold your attention purely on the task at hand – writing. It has no formatting options, one font, one size, and can [...]
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Pitch In & Publish: Writers- get involved!
September 23rd, 2010 No Comments
Whilst researching the zine scene, I’ve noticed there seems to be a distinct lack of literary and poetry zines being produced, which pains me as they are my primary loves. It seems odd, as the popularity of the zine owes a lot to the short, self-published books of poetry and prose by the beat generation, [...]
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The collage illustrations of Dave McKean
August 12th, 2010 2 Comments
Last week I began to draft a post about digital artist Dave McKean’s illustrations. I was planning to return to the half-written post when I got an email from Giles saying did I know that Dave McKean illustrated a piece of writing for COIL (the Journal of the Moving Image which Giles founded and edited) [...]
Tags: augmented · creative writing · drawing · electronic · inspiration · making
PU&P 6 – at Brixton Village
February 5th, 2010 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of PU&P5, we will be heading down to Brixton’s Granville Arcade and the Spacemaker’s Brixton Village project to run another special PU&P with the BrixVill tenants. The aim is to introduce bookleteer to the tenants to begin to record and document some of their experiences, stories, photos and artwork using Diffusion [...]
Tags: bookleteering · brixvill · creative writing · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop · zines
PU&P with We Are Words + Pictures
January 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Yesterday we held the first Pitch Up & Publish of the year with seven of the members of We Are Word + Pictures, a “team running comic and ‘zine themed events throughout the UK” – Matt Sheret, Michael Leader, Mark Higgins, Anne Hollowday, Emilie Chalcraft, Tom Humberstone and Julia Scheele… It was really inspiring for [...]
Tags: bookleteering · cartoons · comics · creative writing · drawing · pitch up & publish · zines
Happy New Year and a Case Study
January 8th, 2010 2 Comments
Happy 2010 to all bookleteers and others out there! We start the year with a case study written by Kati Rynne who was one of our first alpha testers and took part in the initial Pitch Up & Publish event in October: Ideal for Creative Writers Bookleteer could prove ideal for creative writers who want [...]
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