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Brixton Book Jam, 4 November
Brixton Book Jam is back, in a new venue! Feed your brain with this congenial, intelligent, unpredictable event for readers and writers, featuring Tony White, Daniel Tizon, Johnny B, Amelia Kyazze, Fran Lock, Caspar Addyman, Dave McGowan, and Zelda Rhiando.
New venue: OFF THE CUFF, Arch 645, Railton Road, London, SE24 0JN (right next to Herne Hill station) — FREE!
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#BookshopDay – 12 October 2024
SOIL by Katharine Meynell
SOIL by Katharine Meynell was launched at Matt’s Gallery, London, yesterday (Friday 20 September), with a superb performance and reading (from the book) by Meynell from beneath a thick and very heavy blanket of soil and turf. Thank you to all involved, and to everyone for coming along.
This is a photo I took during the performance. That’s Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery standing at the left of the picture. Up to half the print run of SOIL was given away following the performance.
Here’s the press release:
A note on pronunciation: Meynell rhymes with Fennel.
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Piece of Paper Press launch, Katharine Meynell, SOIL
Piece of Paper Press Publication Launch
Katharine Meynell, SOIL (POPP.044)
20 September 2024, 6-8pm
Etc. Space at Matt’s Gallery
Join us at Matt’s Gallery, London, for the launch of SOIL by Katharine Meynell, a publication released in a numbered limited edition of 150 copies by Piece of Paper Press. Up to half of the print run will be given away free during the evening. Strictly one copy per person, while stocks last.
UPDATE: These are just back from the printers BTW and they look GREAT… Behind the scenes news: Katharine and I are going to get a bit of a production line going later today to make up the finished books ready for numbering… I’ll take some photos. Don’t forget to come along to Matt’s next Friday if you’d like to get your hands on a copy!
SOIL is a text work distilled from images, events and performances created during a residency at Live Art Ireland, Tipperary in 2023 – a period of time that Meynell dedicated to thinking and reading about and working with soil. A video work of the same name was recently screened on MattFlix. The text reproduced in SOIL was first performed at Live Art Ireland, and documented in the video; part love poem, part spell, and threaded through with acrostics and word games, this edition strips away that larger work to reveal a joyful and productive residue, rich in life, ‘where matter meets in past and future…composing becoming’.
The hand-made and ephemeral character of the Piece of Paper Press format addresses itself to the way that Meynell ‘domesticates the tools of her trade… It becomes simply that medium which is at hand when a certain moment occurs or a certain event takes place.’ (Andrea Phillips, Lux Online)
Free, no booking required.
Find out more on the Matt’s Gallery site…
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Attention: collectors!
Attention, collectors! News just in from The Fountain in the Forest publisher Faber and Faber that the first edition ‘royale’-format trade paperback, featuring Luke Brown’s dazzling and influential cover design with its striking neon-green typography is now out of stock at the warehouse. What this means is that right now whatever copies might still be out with retailers are the last of it.
So if you missed out on this beautiful first edition with its stunning flourescent colourway, you might still be in with a chance to snap up one of the last copies if you see one – but as ever, when they’re gone they’re gone!
There are still plenty of copies of the smaller, blue-liveried ‘B-format’ mass-market paperback!
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Fountain tweets – #writinglife
Behind the scenes, occasionally ‘the writing life’™ means applying for things: residencies, fellowships, tendering processes, commissions, open-submission grants and awards, teaching posts, etc. Sometimes the applications are successful, and sometimes they’re not. I pulled together these scrapbook-style screengrabs of tweets and posts about The Fountain in the Forest to paste into a pitching document a while back, and thought they may be of interest here!
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The Fountain in… Corfu
The Fountain in the Forest reaches beautiful Corfu – a Greek island that is very close to my heart!
Thanks so much to London-based artist (and discerning reader!) Linda Khatri for sending this gorgeous photo and for kind words about the novel — I love it when readers finish one of my books and message me a photo…
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Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund
It is a huge thrill to share the news that I have been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and from September for two days a week I’ll be based at Royal Holloway University of London.
The RLF just announced this year’s fellows…
Around 40 Fellowships are awarded every year, and the 2024-25 cohort were invited to St Bride’s Institute off Fleet Street in central London recently for the New Fellows’ induction day. I didn’t quite get to meet everybody, but it was an inspiring day, and an unusual privilege to meet so many interesting writers in one place and on a level playing field, all of us starting out in this new role and new adventure.
Founded in 1790, the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a UK charity that annually delivers over £5 million in grants, education, and outreach programmes. Since 1999, the RLF’s Fellowship scheme for writers in Higher Education has created earning opportunities for over 750 professional writers at over 100 universities and institutions, where Fellows have a brief to offer free and confidential writing advice to anybody that wants it.
I took this kaleidoscopic photo of Royal Holloway’s Grade 1-listed Founders’ Building on a bright clear day back in the spring, when I went to meet my new hosts. Opened in 1886, and designed by architect William Henry Crossland (1835-1908) – a pupil of Sir George Gilbert-Scott – it’s easy to see why Pevsner’s Surrey calls it the ‘most ebullient Victorian building in the Home Counties’!
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