Writing Dump / Life Update

Because I like everything in its right place, here is all the stuff I’ve written over the last couple of years for Left Lion, Now Then and Reel Steel.

Features

Director Marc Meyers on My Friend Dahmer

Learn About The Lives and Deaths at Newstead Abbey

10 Nottingham Pubs Where You Can Get Your Game On

What Sort of Nottingham Do We Want to Create?

The White Lady of Newstead on How She Bit the Dust

Nottingham Writers' Studio and Society of Authors

Film Reviews

Hail Satan?

Funny Cow

Lucky

Apostasy

Dogman

The Square

Hereditary

JOKER

My Friend Dahmer

The Third Murder

Generation Wealth

The Best Films of 2018

The Worst Films of 2018

Art / Exhibitions

SEE HERE at the former Neale’s Auction House

Jos Bitelli’s The Procedure at Nottingham Contemporary

Nottingham Trent Fine Art Degree Show 2018

Strike Site at Backlit

Poetry Events

Hollie McNish Warms Up The Old Cold Store

Women Say Stuff at Cafe Sobar

#HighscoreHaikus at National Videogame Museum

Music / Festivals

Sunday Afternoon at Folk Forest 2019

Cantaloupe (Error States)

Dave Mooney & Nancy

Book Reviews 

Forest Folk by James Prior 

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

The Life Update Bit

Funnily enough, I've got some time to work on my blog again. I now live in Sheffield, work in tech, and have a boyfriend who knows a lot about German.

I'm also pretty active on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr (say hello!).

Hope you're all doing ok out there in Hell World.

Five (Left) Lions

Nottingham treasure LeftLion Magazine reaches its 100th issue this month! It's a must-read if you're in the city, and free to pick up from many a fine Notts establishment. I'm dead chuffed to have been doing a few articles for their website recently, here they all are if you fancy a gander...


1. Nottingham Writers' Studio to Host Joint Networking Event with Society of Authors

A little plug for our beloved Notts Writers' Studio, which is well worth a visit.


2. 10 Nottingham Watering Holes with Pub Sports and Games

I had so much fun researching for this (2-3 pubs per week for a month).


3. Art Review: Strike Site at Backlit

Review of an exhibition about the refugee crisis at indie gallery Backlit.


4. Fluent Females: Third Annual Women Say Stuff Event at Cafe Sobar

Write up of a female-led poetry event for International Women's Day.


5. Film Review: The Square

Getting bitter and preachy about the mad world of contemporary art.

Playing Ringing the Bull at Ye Olde Trip (plus mystery observer)

Tennyson and The Lady of Shalott album art.

 

Doing a picture of The Lady of Shalott is like doing a cover version of a classic song - I’m never going to outdo the Pre-Raphaelites!

This is the cover for Dad’s latest album (he sets poetry to music), illustrating Tennyson’s tragic Shalott and her curse. It’s a girl stuck in tower, falls for hot knight with great hair, then inexplicably dies kind of story.

It’s come out a bit R. Crumb with all the crosshatching and luckily I had a medieval-style dress that I could pose in for reference. Dressing up as dead chicks makes my day.

 

And here is Alfred Lord Tennyson, surrounded by strange flowery things! I enjoy his glum Arthurian poems and his big influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

 

Drew him in pencil for the sleeve of Dad’s CD and based his face on a portrait in a VERY old book!

Album covers I've gone and done.

My dad’s been setting poems to folk music for years, here are some of the album sleeves I've done for him.