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The Mechanics' Institute Review
''The Mechanics' Institute Review'' (also known by the abbreviation ''MIR'') is an annual literary anthology published by Birkbeck, University of London, as part of its MA Creative Writing course. The ''MIR'' Project Director is Julia Bell. History The publication owes its name to the institution that publishes the title, Birkbeck, University of London. The first Mechanics' Institute in London was founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck. "Mechanics" then meant "skilled artisans", and the purpose of the Institute was to instruct them in the principles behind their craft. The first ''MIR'' was published in 2004. Originally limited to MA students' short stories and novel extracts, ''MIR'' has also included work by notable published authors, from Issue 3 onwards. These include Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Rose Tremain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. C. Boyle, Dubravka Ugrešić, Courttia Newland, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies, Jean McNeil and David Foster Wallace. Reviews of the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mechanics' Institute Review
''The Mechanics' Institute Review'' (also known by the abbreviation ''MIR'') is an annual literary anthology published by Birkbeck, University of London, as part of its MA Creative Writing course. The ''MIR'' Project Director is Julia Bell. History The publication owes its name to the institution that publishes the title, Birkbeck, University of London. The first Mechanics' Institute in London was founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck. "Mechanics" then meant "skilled artisans", and the purpose of the Institute was to instruct them in the principles behind their craft. The first ''MIR'' was published in 2004. Originally limited to MA students' short stories and novel extracts, ''MIR'' has also included work by notable published authors, from Issue 3 onwards. These include Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Rose Tremain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. C. Boyle, Dubravka Ugrešić, Courttia Newland, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies, Jean McNeil and David Foster Wallace. Reviews of the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Educational Supplement
''Tes'', formerly known as the ''Times Educational Supplement'', is a weekly UK publication aimed at education professionals. It was first published in 1910 as a pull-out supplement in ''The Times'' newspaper. Such was its popularity that in 1914, the supplement became a separate publication selling for one penny. ''TES'' focuses on school-related news and features. It covered higher education until the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'' (now ''Times Higher Education'') was launched as a sister publication in 1971. Today its editor is Jon Severs. Since 1964, an alternative version of the publication, ''TESS'', has been produced for Scotland. An edition for Wales, ''TES Cymru'', was also published between 2004 and 2011. The lack of content about Wales since its closure has been criticised by the Welsh Education Minister, Jeremy Miles. All are produced by London-based company TES Global, which has been owned by US investment firm Providence Equity Partners LLC since 2018. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Milward
Richard Milward (born 26 October 1984 in Middlesbrough) is an English novelist. His debut novel ''Apples'' was published by Faber in 2007. He has also written ''Ten Storey Love Song'' and most recently ''Kimberly's Capital Punishment''. Raised in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, he attended Laurence Jackson School and Prior Pursglove College, then studied fine art at Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. He cites ''Trainspotting'' by Irvine Welsh as the book that made him want to write and Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan and Hunter S. Thompson as influences. He joined fellow Teessider Michael Smith in writing a column for '' Dazed & Confused'' magazine. Apples Milward's debut novel is an account of teenage life on a Middlesbrough housing estate. It is narrated in the first person by several characters (including a butterfly), but mainly by Adam and Eve, two school students. Adam is a shy, ungainly youth with obsessive compu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Celyn Jones
Russell Celyn Jones is a British writer and Emeritus Professor, Birkbeck, University of London. Jones was born in London and brought up in Swansea, Wales. He has written novels, mostly focused on crime and issues of guilt and morality, and also teaches creative writing. He may be best known for ''Ten Seconds from the Sun'' about the rehabilitation of a child murderer. Jones received his B.A. degree from University College London and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He has three children: Rebecca, Rachel, and Benjamin. Books ''Soldiers and Innocents'' His first novel, ''Soldiers and Innocents'' (1990) is about a father and son who both pursued military careers, the former in North Africa in World War II, the latter in the more morally complex setting of the Northern Irish Troubles. The novel was made into a six-part series for BBC Radio 4 and won the David Higham Prize. ''The Eros Hunter'' ''The Eros Hunter'' is a 1998 crime novel about police investigating paedophil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olja Knežević
Olja Raičević Knežević (born 1968) is a Croatia-based Montenegrin novelist. Her 2019 novel ''Katarina, velika i mala'', which received that year's V.B.Z. Award, was translated into English the following year as ''Catherine the Great and the Small''; it is considered the first contemporary novel by a Montenegrin woman author to be published in English translation. Biography Olja Knežević was born in Podgorica, Montenegro, in 1968. After spending her childhood in Montenegro, she moved as a teenager to California, where she graduated from Capistrano Valley High School. In the 1990s, she participated in humanitarian work during the Yugoslav Wars, and worked as a journalist, editor, and interpreter on a radio ship in international waters. Having studied English language and literature at the University of Belgrade, she received a master's degree in creative writing from Birkbeck College in London in 2008. After living in London for 10 years, Knežević moved to Zagreb, Croatia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Elderkin
Susan Elderkin (born 1968 in Crawley) is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, ''Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains'' won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, ''The Voices'' was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award.http://www.afghanearthworks.com/ranpura/W9_Writers/About_Susan.html About Susan She is the author, with Ella Berthoud, of ''The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies'' and ''The Story Cure: Books to Keep Kids Happy, Healthy and Wise''. Life Elderkin grew up in Leatherhead, Surrey and studied English at Downing College, Cambridge then an MA on the UEA Creative Writing Course taught by Malcolm Bradbury and Rose Tremain. She went on to become a travel writer, journalist and reviewer, mainly for the ''Financial Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime (sometimes spelled Xaime) Hernandez (born 1959) is the co-creator of the alternative comic book '' Love and Rockets'' with his brothers Gilbert and Mario. Early life Jaime Hernandez grew up in Oxnard, California.Aldama, p. 119. He is the youngest of his family, with four older brothers and one sister. His family embraced comics: their mother read them frequently and old issues were kept in large quantities in the house, to be read and re-read by all over the years. "We grew up with comics," Hernandez said. "I wanted to draw comics my whole life." They read all types of comics and enjoyed those that gave a fairly realistic depiction of family life as well as the standard superhero adventures. Hernandez was particularly influenced by Hank Ketcham's ''Dennis the Menace'' and Dan DeCarlo's ''Archie''' comics. The children in his otherwise rather realistic stories are often drawn to resemble Ketcham's, and Jaime's characters often strike very "DeCarlo-esque" poses. The work o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld (born 1976) is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator. His style reflects his self-professed fondness of "deadpan comedy, flat dialogue, things happening offstage and impressive characters". Others note that his work "combines pathos with the farcical" and exhibits "a casual reduction of visual keys into a more rudimentary drawing style". Career Gauld is best known for his comic books ''Goliath'' and ''Mooncop'' as well as his collections of one-page cartoons. He has also authored a number of smaller-scale books such as ''Guardians of the Kingdom'', ''Robots, Monsters etc.'', ''Hunter and Painter'' and his cartoon ''Move to the City'', which ran weekly in London's ''Time Out'' in 2001–2002. Gauld studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, where he first started to draw comics "seriously", and the Royal College of Art. At the Royal College of Art, he worked with friend Simone Lia. Together they self-published the comics ''First'' and ''Second'' under their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bezmozgis
David Bezmozgis ( lv, Dāvids Bezmozgis; born 1973) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker, currently the head of Humber College's School for Writers. Life and career Educational background Born in Riga, Latvia, he came to Canada with his family when he was six. He graduated with a B.A. in English literature from McGill University. Bezmozgis received an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. Short stories His short story "Natasha", which originally appeared in '' Harper's'', was included in the '' Best American Short Stories 2005'' collection. His short story "The Train of Their Departure", which ''The New Yorker'' featured in its August 2010 issue, is actually an excerpt from his first novel ''The Free World'', released on April 4, 2011, to wide acclaim. His short stories "Tapka" and "The Russian Riviera" were also published in ''The New Yorker''. His short stories "The Second Strongest Man" and "A New Gravestone for an Old Grave" hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, and a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, England. She was born 1961 in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal, after a year and a half and subsequently worked for a year in a copper mine in the Yukon. She then travelled and settled in London, where she now resides. Career Pullinger won the 2009 Governor General's Award for her novel ''The Mistress of Nothing'', a fictionalized tale of Sally Naldrett, lady's maid to Lady Duff Gordon, who traveled with her mistress to Egypt in Victorian times. Pullinger's earlier books include the novels ''When the Monster Dies'' (1989), ''Where Does Kissing End?'' (1992), ''The Last Time I Saw Jane'' (1996), ''Weird Sister'' (1999) and ''A Little Stranger'' (2004 in Canada and 2006 in the UK), as well as the short-story collections ''Tiny Lies'' (1988) and ''My Life as a Gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi (born Elżbieta Borensztejn; 4 January 1946) is a British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. Until 2021, she was the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Freud Museum London. She chaired the 2017 Booker International Prize won by Olga Tokarczuk. She is an Honorary Fellow of St Benet's Hall, Oxford and Visiting Professor in the Department of English at King's College London, and held a Wellcome Trust People Award there for her public series on ''The Brain and the Mind''. Her book ''Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors'' won the 2009 British Medical Association Award for the Public Understanding of Science, among other prizes. She has written for ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer'', as well as making programmes and appearing on the BBC. Biography Personal life and education Appignanesi was born Elżbieta Borensztejn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nii Parkes
Nii Ayikwei Parkes (; born 1 April 1974), born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator. He is one of 39 writers aged under 40 from sub-Saharan Africa who in April 2014 were named as part of the Hay Festival's prestigious Africa39 project. He writes for children under the name K.P. Kojo. Biography Born in the UK while his parents were studying there, Nii Parkes was raised from the age of three or four in Ghana, where he was educated at Achimota School. His first editorial role was in 1988 working on his school magazine, ''The Achimotan'', and he went on to co-found, at the age of 17, ''filla!'' magazine, Ghana's first student-run national magazine."Nii Ayikwei Parkes, YCE Finalist" , British Council Creative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |