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Story Time Levenshulme: We Need Your Help!
July 14, 2021
We’re thrilled that our Story Time Levenshulme project has been included in the voting to win up to £1500 from the Tesco Community Grants Scheme. Now we need your help! Any money we receive from the scheme will help fund Story Time Levenshulme: an inclusive story time session, once a month, for pre-school children at […]
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Blog #2: Throw A Rock, Hit A Poet by Anna Polonyi
July 9, 2021
Anna Polonyi is a French-American-Hungarian writer and journalist. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Wayword, written on the Camino de Santiago. Her creative writing has been published by Harvard Advocate, Bastille Magazine, Global Geneva, Two Words For and Belleville Park Pages. She holds an M.F.A in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative […]
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From One Geodesic to Another by Alicia Sometimes
July 7, 2021
Alicia Sometimes is an Australian poet, writer and broadcaster. Her poetry collections include Soundtrack and Kissing the Curve, and her poems have been published in Best Australian Poems and Best Australian Science Writing. She is Director and Co-Writer of the art/science planetarium shows, Elemental and Particle/Wave. She is currently a Science Gallery Melbourne ‘Leonardo’ (creative advisor) and is a […]
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Blog #1: A Sensory Tour of Iowa City by Anna Polonyi
July 2, 2021
Anna Polonyi is a French-American-Hungarian writer and journalist. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Wayword, written on the Camino de Santiago. Her creative writing has been published by Harvard Advocate, Bastille Magazine, Global Geneva, Two Words For and Belleville Park Pages. She holds an M.F.A in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches creative […]
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Spotlight On: Saraband Books
July 2, 2021
Continuing our series supporting the small press publishers in the Northern Fiction Alliance, we spoke to Sara Hunt, founder of the Salford based Saraband Books. When and why did you start Saraband Books? I’ve always loved books and reading. In 1994 I’d been working in publishing in London and New York for ten years, but […]
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Spotlight on: Valley Press
July 2, 2021
Continuing our series supporting the small press publishers in the Northern Fiction Alliance, we spoke to Jamie McGarry, founder of the Scarborough based Valley Press. When and why did you start Valley Press? I’ve been putting books together fairly consistently since I was 6 years old – what can I say, it’s a vocation! I […]
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Spotlight On: Carcanet Press
March 1, 2021
Continuing our series spotlighting small presses in the North, we spoke to Michael Schmidt, publisher at Manchester based poetry press Carcanet. When and why did you start Carcanet Press? My friends and I started Carcanet in 1969 because there were several poets (new and old, UK and from abroad, in English and in translation) whose […]
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Review: Angela Davis & Jackie Kay in Conversation
November 13, 2020
Young Digital Reporter Owen Mul finds hope and solidarity at Angela Davis & Jackie Kay in Conversation. 50 years ago, Angela Davis was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. Today, in stark contrast, she is sitting behind a computer, poised in front of a fittingly extensive book collection, reminding us of the exciting potentials […]
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Review: Slay in Your Lane Presents Loud Black Girls
November 13, 2020
Young Digital Reviewer Elizabeth Gibson finds positivity and a desire for change at Slay in Your Lane Presents Loud Black Girls. Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené made waves when it was published in 2018, so I am excited to learn more about the newly-published Slay in […]
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Review: Daisy Johnson & Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson
November 13, 2020
Young Digital Reporter Joe Hair discovers ideas about control and choice at Daisy Johnson & Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson. Despite 2020 throwing about every hurdle it could, we arrived at our first #MLF20 book talk on 23 October. Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh were led by veteran author Jeannette Winterson for an […]