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Paperchains - From Lockdown to Hay Literary Festival
Unlocking the Chains Paperchains began on 23rd March 2020 when the Prime Minister announced the first UK lockdown,’ says Paperchains creator A.G. Smith. ‘Whilst many people began to make plans to cope with the situation, and take care of family and friends as best they could, I knew what was about to happen behind prison walls. Twenty-three hour lockdown. No education classes, no library time and, even more crucially, no family visits.
Lighthouse Submission Guidelines
Lighthouse is open for poetry submissions from writers with working class backgrounds until 28th August 2022. Please send these poetry submissions to submissions@lighthouse.gatehousepress.com. Please title your submission email with either Prose Submission, Poetry Submission, or Art Submission as appropriate. By submitting to Lighthouse you are confirming that you have read and understood the guidelines on this page. Please ensure your submission includes your name and postal address.
Deception Island
Published by Sam Ruddock on 30th June 202130th June 2021 Step inside an exact replica of an Antarctic hut and be transported to Deception Island, a tiny caldera in the Antarctic Ocean, battered by the fiercest seas in the world and shaken by volcanic activity. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankind’s greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, a witness to human attentiveness and fortitude.
Paperchains - Story Machine
Stories of lockdown from people with experience of prison, homelessness, addiction, and families of people in the armed forces. These are stories from inside the Covid-19 storm. Powerful, often irreverent, heartfelt: words that history cannot forget. Through live performance, animation, film, and voice-over, Story Machine presents an anthology of lives that will step off the page to hold hands with you.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham | Waterstones
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of 'Mrs Dalloway'.
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