Riptide

Beyond the Frame: Artwork as Inspiration for Writing

Event Date: 
26/07/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Meeting Room A, RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Dr Sally Flint and Dr Ginny Baily, the editors of Riptide short story journal and Canto poetry journal, based at the University of Exeter, will run and facilitate this creative writing workshop.

Artwork on display from RAMM’s permanent collection will be used as inspiration to develop and discuss a piece of writing.

Participants need to bring along pens, paper, a willingness to write and their imaginations.

10am-4pm.

Tickets cost £35 and are available from Riptide: www.riptidejournal.co.uk or email: editors@riptidejournal.co.uk

New Ventures at Exeter's Dirt Pie Press - Poetry Wanted

Authored by Riptide
Posted: Thu, 06/20/2013 - 4:11pm

Dirt Pie Press is a small-scale not-for-profit publisher that has been producing the highly acclaimed Riptide ( www.riptidejournal.co.uk ) short story anthologies since 2007.

Each collection features work by established and up-and-coming authors but the aim is also to discover and encourage new writing talent.

Over the years Riptide collections have included stories by such luminaries as Michael Morpurgo, Helen Dunmore and Philip Hensher but also the first work by newer authors who have gone on to publish novels of their own, including some writers from Devon - Penny Feeney...