Staple Flyers: On the Verge of Distribution!

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A to Z of Artists Writing and Writers in Art

Earlier this year, Staple Magazine published The Art Issue, an issue on the theme of writing in relation to visual art, with writings by artists (including Mik Godley, Simon Withers and Errol Lloyd) set alongside artworks by Ellen Bell, an interview with Cornelia Parker, and poetry and short fiction on themes connected to visual art by Mark Czanik, Mel Fawcett, Kenneth Steven, Peter Porter, Myra Schneider, Robert Vas Dias, Sophie Mayer and Fawzia Kane, among many others.

As an extension of that issue’s editorial, we’ve put together an A to Z in an effort to fill in some further background to that issue’s interests, expanding the territory beyond the pages of the magazine, while deliberately using the limits of the A to Z format to avoid any attempt at comprehensiveness. Many key names are omitted (how can it be otherwise when ‘B’ alone could easily have been Breton, Bourgeois or Barthes, and isn’t – as it turns out – any of those?) and many lesser known figures had to be included in the hope that the range and richness of the field would be somehow represented in a relatively small space.

The first part (covering letters A to F) is now available to read at Nottingham Visual Arts, and G to K will follow next week, with a fresh batch appearing every week until we finally arrive at Z. Keep an eye open for the updates as they go up on the site over the next few weeks, and have a look at what else is going on around Nottingham’s visual arts scene while you’re there – latest additions include Jennie Syson on the Araby exhibition at Moot Gallery, and Simon Withers on his and Chris Lewis-Jones’ contribution to the South Bank’s Alternative Village Fete.

More information on Staple 71: The Art Issue, and future publications, including Winter 2009’s Music Issue, can be found at: www.staplemagazine.bigcartel.com

Leftlion Circus Extravaganza Literary Line-Up

 

The Canning Circus Extravaganza, gallery upstairs in the Hand and Heart, Derby Road, Nottingham, Saturday 3rd October, all FREE. 

3.30 – 4.10 WriteLion forum
4.10 – 4.20 Grab a beer, smoke a tab
4.20 – 5.00 Megan Taylor (How we were Lost) and Nicola Monaghan (The Killing Jar, StarFishing)
5.00 – 5.10 Grab a beer, smoke a tab
5.10 – 6.10 Poetry featuring Mike Wilson, Marion Bell, Wayne Burrows, Aly Stoneman and Milk
6.10 – 6.20 Grab a beer, smoke a tab
6.20 – 7.00 Sexy Saturday with Rebecca Dakin and Al Needham
7.00 – Get hammered and listen to some free music in Canning Circus bars.

 

Staple join TLC at Free Word Festival, Oct 1st, 6 – 9pm, FREE

Staple and The Literary Consultancy talk publishing at The Free Word Festival

Thu Oct 1st: 6pm – 7.15pm: Get a grip: thinking about getting published?

A panel of experienced professional writers and industry experts including Simon Trewin (United Agents), Richard Skinner (Goldsmiths, The Faber Academy), and members of the TLC team will hold a panel discussion about writing and the publishing industry. What does The Literary Consultancy do? How might it help you? What other resources are available for people writing? How does the publishing industry work? What role do magazines of new writing like Staple play in the age of downloads and online content? Bring along your questions to this relaxed event.

Thu Oct 1st: 7.30 – 9pm: A very open evening with Staple Magazine and The Literary Consultancy

Staple Magazine publishes an eclectic mix of poetry, short fiction, articles, reviews and images. The Literary Consultancy guest-edited Staple’s Publishing Issue, where opinion pieces from agents and editors were included alongside varied perspectives of both published and unpublished authors. At this lively event, we will feature readings from a selection of contributors, including Terry Darlington, whose witty Narrow Dog to Carcassone became a bestseller with Transworld after being read by TLC; Tim Clare, whose recent publication We Can’t All be Astronauts discusses the perils of publication; and Richard Skinner, whose ingenious works include The Red Dancer and The Velvet Gentleman (an extract from The Velvet Gentleman – currently only available in French, Italian and Japanese – will appear in Staple 72: The Music Issue).

We look forward to seeing you at The Free Word Centre – directions to the venue are here.

Legend Of Childe Harold

A completely instrumental LP from 1970 by Continuum (Yoel Schwarz and John Warren) in a Pentangle-style folk/jazz/medieval niche, featuring a suite by the composer Richard Hartley based on Byron’s Childe Harold:

When is a ’spoken word’ recording not a spoken word recording?

Spot The Difference? Staple Music Issue draft covers…

The Staple 72 cover image X-Factor!

 

The draft covers for the next Staple – closely connected to the musical theme and article on the prehistory of spoken word to be featured in its pages (in which some of the LPs here are discussed) - can be seen below. Personally, I’m leaning towards the most thoroughly cluttered image at the top (some things will probably never change) but any comments and preferences to help with a final decision would be much appreciated…

 

draft cover for staple 72

draft cover for Staple 72

draft cover for Staple 72

Staple at QUAD – October 15, 7.30pm.

STAPLE AT QUAD, OCTOBER 15, 7.30pm, FREE

Jacqueline Gabbitas, Staple and Hello Hubmarine, 7.30pm for 8pm start, Coors Cafe, QUAD, Market Place, Derby.

 

Staple presents a night of readings in the stylish surroundings of the QUAD cafe in Derby, to launch Staple 71: The Art Issue in the East Midlands. There will be contributions from Hello Hubmarine and past and present Staple contributors, and the night will conclude with a reading from Jacqueline Gabbitas, a Worksop-born, London based poet whose debut collection, Mid-Lands, appeared from Hearing Eye in 2007, and whose more recent work includes Harnessing The Power Of Grass, a sequence highly commended and anthologised by this year’s Forward Prize  judges. 

Photo credit: David James Andrew

Jacqueline Gabbitas was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Her poetry has been widely published in magazines, and a section from her sequence ‘Harnessing The Power Of Grass’ – first seen in Staple’s Publishing Issue in 2008 – was highly commended by the Forward Prize judges and selected to appear in this year’s Forward Book of Poetry on October 7th, National Poetry Day. Her pamphlet, Mid Lands was published by Hearing Eye in 2007 and her first collection is forthcoming. She is also an editor on Brittle Star magazine.

Ride The Word XIV

Ride the Word XIV

 

  

SATURDAY  29th AUGUST, 7pm to 9pm, FREE.

 

 

Cafe Yumchaa, Camden Lock Market,

91/92 Upper Walkway,

West Yard

Camden, NW1 8AF

(tel 020 7209 9641)

 

 

Vincent de Souza 

Sascha Akhtar 

Aletta Lawson reading work by Catherine Eisner 

Jay Merill

 

 

Guests: STAPLE Magazine, edited by Wayne Burrows, with poetry from:

 

Fawzia Kane

Sophie Mayer

Jacqueline Gabbitas 

 

 

(Tube: Camden Town. Walk up to Bridge. Locate the Lock. Look up to balconied Cafe) or 24 Bus to Camden Town, (plus many others). Phone London Transport 020 7222 1234

Staple Contributor on the Fourth Plinth

Contributor of three ultra-short stories under the title Statements Of Intent to Staple’s Art Issue, Nottingham artist Simon Withers has also been hoisted onto the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, as a participant in Anthony Gormley’s One & Other project. His unscheduled appearance followed his wife Jo’s original, planned session on the plinth, making for an East Midlands double-bill in the shadow of Nelson’s Column. We knew we were doing an art issue, but not that our contributors would be going on to become artworks in their own right…

Washdays by Graham Lester George

Short film written by Staple contributor wins prize:

Graham Lester George, a contributor to Staple’s East Midlands Issue in 2008, and more recently the co-designer of Mik Godley’s Considering Silesia  feature in Staple 71: The Art Issue, has won a prize for his script for a short film.

Washdays, written by Graham Lester George and directed by Simon Neal, scooped the top prize at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.

Washdays is the story of eleven year old Kyle who has a problem; he’s a bed-wetter. His mum thinks making him wash his own sheets will cure him, but it only makes him late for school and his teacher demands a note. And when Kyle’s mum writes the unvarnished truth, he bunks off and goes in search of his own solution.

Washdays has also been officially selected for the Palm Springs Film Festival and the Rhode Island Film Festival in the US, the Lucas Kinderspielfest in Frankfurt, and the Cambridge Film Festival. Graham is well known locally as a tutor on screenwriting courses at QUAD and Broadway, and those who saw Washdays when it had a screening at Broadway’s Screenlit Festival in July – as part of the Nottingham Writers’ Studio event on the final Sunday – will know its success is well deserved.

Graham taught the Scriptwriting Basics course at QUAD in May, and the course will be back by popular demand at QUAD later in the year. Please see: www.derbyquad.co.uk/participate/digital-creative-workshops for details.