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About Us
This is the bit where the
editors get to show off and introduce their friends.
Contact Jim |
Jim has taught English for many years, working in Edinburgh, Hastings,
Spain, Saudi Arabia and Algeria. He has written and piloted course
materials, taught Business English and other areas of English for Special
Purposes. With an MA in Linguistics/English Language, he has
extensive experience in text appraisal and analysis.
(He's a poet, a warm facilitator, a mean proof reader, a champion pub
philosopher, and is very good at staring moodily out to sea on stormy
days, but being a dour Scotsman, would never say enough to fill a bio-box
about himself! - Kay) |
Contact Kay |
Kay has been writing for poetry magazines and literary
journals for fifteen years. Her book, "Jung's People" is published
by Elastic Press. Her work can currently be seen in Elastic Press
anthologies, Trevor Denyer's 'Legend' magazine, and various poetry
journals. She is also an experienced English teacher, with a TEFL diploma from Trinity College. She has worked as Director of
Studies and course designer for a Business English school, tutor/mentor
for students preparing for Cambridge and IELTS exams, and as a teacher
trainer.
Kay says, "One summer's day nearly 25 years ago, when I was struggling to
find my way into the world of writing and publishing, I found myself
standing in the Mendip Hills, looking down at the old Wookey Hole paper
mill, which is now a museum, as so many things are. I thought, if I
were rich, I'd buy that and create a press that
produced real, beautiful books designed by the authors and illustrators.
Small print-run perhaps, but real books that feel right and smell right.
It'd be specially for people who hadn't been published much before but had
something worth saying, and
it wouldn't cost them a fortune. I'd call it Earlyworks Press.
Way to go, folks, but the dream is getting nearer." |
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Contact Mustapha |
Kay says: Here is Mustapha, who was an inspiration to us
at the start of the collaboration project. He is from Algeria, and has a
head full of fantastic Berber folktales. He is a great storyteller, and
has entertained us in the pub many a time. I am now working with him to
get some of those amazing stories into book form. Mustapha is looking for
someone who would like to work with him to produce
an edition with parallel texts in French and English, which will make a
marvellous resource for students of either language. If you are a writer
and a native French speaker, or if you have a good level of experience working
with French literature and you would like to get involved, please get in touch
with Mustapha.
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Contact Kath
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Kay says: Here is Kath, an artist from Hastings with whom I have
been on a four-year journey of discovery. It didn't carry us far
from our armchairs. It involved me looking at a tarot picture
once a month or so, relating it to my life at the time, and writing a
story, which I would then pass to Kath who would do an illustration
blending the story with elements from her life. The resulting picture
would come back to me to kick off a new story. More tarot, more
living....four years down the line, we have a collection which we're
thinking of calling "Two Women Walking", and the love of collaboration
that fed my ideas for Earlyworks Press. Here is a foretaste of the
collection. You can see more of Kath's work in the Exhibition
Pages, and "Facing the Dark" - one of our tarot-generated stories - is in
"Jung's People" published by Elastic Press.
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