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By: Heather Ryerson,
on 12/5/2014
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post by Heather Ryerson
Grace Helmer uses strong brush strokes to create her rich, ethereal oil illustrations. The expressive color progressions in her paintings give the work a delicate, transient presence; the viewer can’t help but be caught up in the joy and beauty of Helmer’s brief captured moments. Her style is used to especially great effect in her animated pieces. Constantly changing textures and shapes create a depth and dynamism that one might feel could easily be drunk from the canvas. Helmer graduated from the Camberwell College of Art in 2012 and is part of the illustration studio collective Day Job.
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Last weekend, I attended my very first convention - Fantasycon - and I loved it. Here are some of the things that occurred and helped make it something to remember...
- Simon may never forgive me for making him run from our B&B to the convention hotel because I wanted to attend Rob Shearman's reading. The run included stairs. I will apologise eventually. Maybe. Probably not. It was Rob Shearman after all. I also attended readings by Simon Bestwick (duh!), Alison Littlewood, Gary McMahon, Graham Joyce and Jon Oliver.
- Beware of Graham Joyce and seemingly innocent lists of signatures. Always check under Joyce's thumb. Several writers signed their names to the List of Cunts. Snort.
- An absolute thrill to finally meet Ray Cluley and to discover that his girlfriend, Victoria, is VH Leslie who's had stories published in Black Static. At several points during the weekend I was surrounded by Black Static and Interzone authors. This makes me part of the gang, right? Right? It's almost like having a story within the pages, right? Simon and I went for a meal with Ray and Victoria on the Friday night. A definite highlight of the weekend. The following night we returned to the same restaurant with the brilliant Gary & Emily McMahon. I ate swordfish. This is exotic for me.
- Arriving at a disco via the dance floor when your boyfriend is an extrovert and you are an introvert is scary. I demanded a pint of cider and after a few sips discovered my rhythm - or rather, no longer cared whether or not I had rhythm. I didn't have rhythm.
- Beware of DJs with a wicked sense of humour.
- I can hold my drink. Cue one boyfriend who was slightly less concerned when I demanded he buy me another pint of cider.
- During the British Fantasy Awards the room erupted when Rob Shearman won the award for best collection. Although all the winners received generous applause, the announcement of Rob's win almost brought the hotel down. In fact, I suspect parts of Brighton are still shaking. Adam Nevill got a rapturous applause too. Someone needs to check if the hotel is still standing.
- Despite claiming we would, the Bestwick and I never managed a trip on the big wheel. We ran out of time. It wasn't because we're wimps or that we were still trying to catch our breath after running to Rob Shearman's reading. Although, hearing Soozy Marjoram's report of her experience on the big wheel I'm rather grateful to the beast that stole time.
- Nina Allen is so lovely.
- Alison Littlewood & Fergus are lovely too. But this I already knew. In fact, lots of people were lovely and in some cases bonkers. I appreciate bonkers. Amongst the lovely and the bonkers who I spoke to (leaving out those already mentioned) were Graeme Reynolds, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Jay Eales, Rosie Seymour, Christopher Teague, Rio Youers, Lynda Rucker, Mark West, Selina Lock, Joel Lane, Gary Cole Wilkin, David Price, Simon & Lizzie Marshall Jones, Neil Buchanan, Maura McHugh, and... okay, I've mentioned him before but... Rob Shearman. So, so excited to meet Rob. I don't think it showed though. Apologies to all those I forgot to mention (I have just face palmed)
- Somebody forgot to attend any panels. That would be me. No matter the awesomeness of the Guests of Honour if you get lost in Alice in Wonderland corridors you'll never find your way to their interview. Oops! In fact, I think my reflection is still trapped somewhere in the basement of the con hotel.
- I didn't take many photos because I suffered a strange case of Behind Camera Shyness. This is a new illness. I'm going to prescribe something sugary.
- I developed an addiction to ice cubes. My home made ice cubes do not compare. I would also like to continue having breakfast in bed. Someone arrange the latter.
- Roy Gray (of Interzone / TTA Press) kindly gave us a lift to and from Fantasycon. Much thanks to him. I think he survived the experience.
- Candy floss was consumed.
- Most important of all, the convention made me desperate to write. I'd lost a little of that want over the past few months. Oh, and did I say, I met ROB SHEARMAN!!! This may have pleased me.
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By: Bridget Whelan,
on 8/5/2012
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Since my last post was about the arguments regarding whether creative writing can be taught, I suppose it's not surprising that I should be thinking about the courses that I will be running in Brighton and Central London in the autumn - although I haven't actually been away this summer yet.
Courses take a lot of planing and ideas for new exercises and new approaches to familiar subjects come from a diverse range of sources - a chance remark, a photograph, an article in Sunday supplement.
Last night after a dinner party I suddenly saw how I could use titles from Philip K. Dick's books to spark new and original writing and went straight to my laptop to plan a lesson instead of heading for the kitchen sink and the washing up...can't think why. What's else on offer next term?
Halloween and all things ghoulish, creating believable baddies, discovering how being in the moment can aid description and two entirely new courses - nature writing on the edge of the Sussex Downs and a lunch hour course in central London for busy writers who just want/need to go home after work.
I am also very glad to be running a course on writing the biography of your family again. There's nothing as interesting as people and I meet some fascinating characters in the classroom - the fact that some of them have been dead a couple of hundred years doesn't make any difference.
While the course is aimed at anyone who wants to put flesh on the bare bones of family history - a list of dates of births, deaths and marriages reveals very little by itself - it is also suitable for students who want to write the life story of a parent or grandparent.
Get in touch if you'd like to find out more.
BRIGHTON
Creative
Writing – an introduction MONDAY MORNINGS
It
doesn’t matter if you haven’t written since school - come along and discover
the writer within on this confidence-building 10 week course
starting on October 1st 2012
South Portslade Community Centre
Creative
Writing – advanced THURSDAY MORNING or AFTERNOON
An imaginative 10 week course designed to offer
support and inspiration to the emerging writer. Morning and afternoon sessions
available starting on October
4th 2012
South Portslade Community Centre
Writing from Nature at Foredown Tower SIX WEEK COURSE
Take
inspiration from the natural world, and look at the familiar in new ways at
this unique site on the edge of the South Downs. This is a short Wednesday
morning course starting on November 7th 2012
Help! I Want To Be
Published! FIVE WEEK COURSE
A
short course for aspiring fiction and non fiction writers that combines
practical guidance on the nitty gritty of getting published with advice on how
to make your writing stand out for all the right reasons.
Starting
on November 6th at the Friends Centre, near Brighton Station.
CENTRAL LONDON
The 60-minute Writer GRAB A SANDWICH & A DOSE OF CREATIVITY
Fit
creative writing into your busy day in central London. A relaxed, informal
rolling programme for writers of all levels of experience who enjoy being
thrown new ideas and experimenting with poetry and prose. This Friday lunchtime
class starts on September 28th 2012 at City Lit in Holborn.
Writing Your Family Biography
A
non-fiction course for students who want to learn how to use writing techniques
to transform the bare bones of family history into a gripping read.
This
Friday afternoon course starts on September 14th 2012 at City Lit in Holborn.
Ways into Creative Writing
An
imaginative and supportive course covering prose writing and poetry -suitable
for the beginner
This
Friday evening course starts on September 14 2012 at City Lit in Holborn.
A SPORTING CHANCE
Poetry, prose and LOL comedy. 7.30 pm Iambic Arts Theatre in Regent Street in the North Laines. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll have a drink. You'll be in good company and you'll be supporting a great cause...
This is something different. Local history + a gentle stroll + creative writing. What's not to like...
AUGUST 9th 10am to 12.30
It starts and ends at Brighton Unemployed Centre in Tilbury Place, off Carlton Hill - just by the American Express building. It is part of TARNER STORIES, a project funded by Heritage Lottery that explores an area rich in working class history.
It's a hilly walk - this is Brighton: there's no getting away from that - but the pace is easy and there will be time to stop and stare and share stories. We will hear about Miss Tarner, walk on Victorian red brick pavements, see where a farm was operating in the heart of Brighton only 40 years ago and spot some fine examples of bungaloosh - a uniquly Brighton building material.
AND I will be setting creative writing exercises along the way and back at the Centre.
I've never done anything like this before - bet you haven't either.
No need to book - just turn up. No need to go to the cash point - it's free. But do get in contact if you want to find out more
I enjoyed Alexis Petridis' article about Brighton in today's Guardian (click on the title of this post to read it). He mentioned a couple of my favourite places
Muesli Mountain – otherwise known as the hills of Hanover. Southover Street is so steep they have to have a pub on every corner: base camp one, base camp two...
The Bell Book and Candle in North Laines "which has the local market in rune and casting stones pretty much sewn up".The article didn't mention the Iambic Arts Theatre above the shop which opened this year or the fact that they want to stock A Good Confession (which I have only just remembered...)
Because we have a Green MP, because we have the largest gay population in Europe and because "The World's Least Convincing Transvestite" lives here, Petridis sees Brighton as England's San Francisco, a city of tolerance...
It's been called lots of other things: London by the Sea, the damp end of Wardour Street, Blow-in Town, the smell of success (Laurence Olivier).
I think of it as Mickey Rooney City. It's the place where you can say: Hey, let's put on a show...
Have you got a definition for Brighton?
There’s a strange phenomenon that keeps happening, recently: the enormous number of cyclists and even drivers who think that traffic signals don’t apply to them. When I’m crossing the road, especially in a busy place such as London or Brighton, between the two of which I spend much of my time, I don’t especially wish to come across a vehicle, either of the two- or four- or more-wheel variety, when they should be stationary at the lights.
The number of times I’ve been about to cross the road, only to have to step back abruptly because of a cyclist, I’ve completely lost count of. As for vehicles with more than two wheels – and this includes buses – this is my plea to drivers of them to not carry on until they cross the line and block the way. This is especially noticeable outside the Angel Tube station, where I find myself two or three times a week. Please – all of you – let pedestrians across without making them dodge your car/hummer/bus/whatever. It’s not much to ask.
Quite apart from the fact that dodging lights is illegal, it’s downright dangerous. Those signals are there so that we can all use the roads as safely as possible and it’s only when someone thinks they’re the most important person using said roads that they become infinitely more dangerous than they need to be.
If we were all a bit more considerate to each other, I wouldn’t be writing this. Car drivers may wonder sometimes why there might be a thud on their bumpers when they’re waiting at a signal but have gone too far across. Look behind you – someone’s bag might accidentally-on-purpose have bumped against your car because it’s in the way!!! Is it any wonder pedestrians get angry, sometimes? We have as much right to use the roads as you, so when we get treated like second class citizens, it’s irksome, to say the least.
Car drivers, bus drivers, motorbike riders, I’m asking you to learn (or re-learn) a simple but extremely useful art: that of simple respect. Perhaps then, we would all be happier when using the roads.
There’s a strange phenomenon that keeps happening, recently: the enormous number of cyclists and even drivers who think that traffic signals don’t apply to them. When I’m crossing the road, especially in a busy place such as London or Brighton, between the two of which I spend much of my time, I don’t especially wish to come across a vehicle, either of the two- or four- or more-wheel variety, when they should be stationary at the lights.
The number of times I’ve been about to cross the road, only to have to step back abruptly because of a cyclist, I’ve completely lost count of. As for vehicles with more than two wheels – and this includes buses – this is my plea to drivers of them to not carry on until they cross the line and block the way. This is especially noticeable outside the Angel Tube station, where I find myself two or three times a week. Please – all of you – let pedestrians across without making them dodge your car/hummer/bus/whatever. It’s not much to ask.
Quite apart from the fact that dodging lights is illegal, it’s downright dangerous. Those signals are there so that we can all use the roads as safely as possible and it’s only when someone thinks they’re the most important person using said roads that they become infinitely more dangerous than they need to be.
If we were all a bit more considerate to each other, I wouldn’t be writing this. Car drivers may wonder sometimes why there might be a thud on their bumpers when they’re waiting at a signal but have gone too far across. Look behind you – someone’s bag might accidentally-on-purpose have bumped against your car because it’s in the way!!! Is it any wonder pedestrians get angry, sometimes? We have as much right to use the roads as you, so when we get treated like second class citizens, it’s irksome, to say the least.
Car drivers, bus drivers, motorbike riders, I’m asking you to learn (or re-learn) a simple but extremely useful art: that of simple respect. Perhaps then, we would all be happier when using the roads.
The Early Years of Buster Keaton
by Catherine Brighton
Roaring Brook 2008
I'm all about giving kids a more rounded cultural education and I think film is one of those areas where American kids are really at a deficit. I once met a teen who was planning to study film when he graduated high school who had never heard of Orson Wells, couldn't name a single film from the 1960's, didn't think
While there's a dust-up at Middle Road about the state of health care in the CNMI, there's also important news about the global situation. From the New York Times:
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: September 13, 2007
For the first time since record keeping began in 1960, the number of deaths of young children around the world has fallen below 10 million a year, according to figures from the United Nations Children’s Fund being released today.
It's almost unbelievable that more than 10 million children per year every year since 1960 have died until now. UNICEF deserves our support for its tremendous effort and success. You can read the full report mentioned above
here.
I love UNICEF. I love the importance it places on children around the world. I love the work it does. And I love the campaigns it sponsors that promote children's involvement in world issues. My favorite is their Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF, but here's another that promises important benefits to the students who participate.
The letter they sent to me explains it all:
Dear Jane,
As you know, UNICEF is guided in its work by the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Below is an opportunity from a friend of UNICEF. The campaign to ratify the CRC in the US has developed a youth essay contest, with cash prizes.
Youth Essay Contest
The Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) invites youth throughout the U.S. to participate in its first nationwide Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by the Campaign's Youth Outreach Committee and will run for the entire month of September. Additional information on the contest is contained in the CRC Essay Contest Guidelines. Essays must be typed directly into the CRC Essay Contest Application and submitted, as an email attachment, to [email protected] by October 1, 2007.
Essay Contest Highlights
Purpose: The purpose of the contest isto raise awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child among youth, to engage youth in thoughtful reflection on the possible benefits of U.S. Ratification of the CRC, and to provide youth with the opportunity to express and share their thoughts on the CRC and possible benefits of U.S. ratification.
Eligibility: The contest is open to the following:
Category 1: Middle school students (Grades 6-8)
Category 2: High school students (Grades 9-12)
Three winners will be selected from each category.
First Place: $250
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $100
The top six winners will also receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Chair of the Campaign and have copies of their winning essays distributed during the November 16, 2007 CRC Nationwide Briefing Days (see Campaign Events for more details).
Along with the top six winning essays, another 14 essays (seven from each age category) will be selected to be incorporated into a CRC Youth Essay Booklet. This booklet of 20 essays will be available for download from the Campaign’s Web Site.
Essay Topic: Applicants are asked to answer one of the following questions:
How could U.S. ratification of the CRC benefit children in the U.S.?
How would U.S. ratification of the CRC impact the global community?
Essays are to be no longer than 500 words and must cite at least three reference sources.
For more information, please visit UNICEF Student Essay Contest.
Thank you for your support and all you do to help UNICEF save kids' lives!
Copyright © 2007 U.S. Fund for UNICEF, 333 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016.
All rights reserved.
I hope that middle school and high school teachers will consider this opportunity for their students. It would take work--research, thinking, writing--but it could also be enriching and possibly fun.
Sounds like a delightful time, Cate. And in list form! Bonus!
Wow. Le wow. It sounds fabulous.
This all sounds lovely but why no mention of Rob Shearman?
It was, Aaron & Deborah
I forgot he was there, Tony ;)
Ooooh bringing down hotels and all. So glad it was amazing--but not surprised!
Funny how you forgot to mention Rob Shearman telling you he loved your work and that you were a terrific writer... :-)
Sounds fab. Must try and get there next time.
Yes, not like me at all, Simon ;)
Oh do, Simon K. I'd love to meet you.
Sounds like fun! I'm glad you got to go!
Me too. Thanks, Kate