05: Summer / Autumn 2009 contributors
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Biogs and Contents
Introduction
Rana Dasgupta
Marianne Morris
Gonzalo Melchor
Paul Green
Abir Hamdar
Nicholas McInerny
Mark Wagstaff
David Gaffney
Laura Bridgeman
Robert P. Baird
What the Poetry Editor looks for
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| EDITOR IN CHIEF: | Nina Rapi | |
| POETRY EDITOR: | Cherry Smyth | |
| DESIGN AND LAYOUT: | Raffaele Teo | |
| CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: | Ali Smith (Whitbread Prize winner; nominated for the Booker Prize); internationally re-known poets Yang Lian and Amarjit Chandan; Ersi Sotiropoulos (translated in more than three languages); Nina Steiger (Director of the Writers’ Centre, Soho Theatre); and widely published/produced writers Shaun Levin (also Chroma Editor), Alev Adil (poet and Independent critic), Caroline Smith and Jennifer Farmer | |
| EDITORIAL ADVISOR (Drama): | Harry Derbyshire | |
| ARTS ADMINISTRATOR(intern): | Johnny Edwards | |
| EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS (interns): | Holly Noyce Bamham, Maria Colonescu, Johnny Edwards, Jennifer Hayward, Erik Sjolander, Will Kitson, James Wade, Emma Zielinski, Jenni Fagan | |
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BIOGS OF KEY STAFF:
Nina Rapi is a playwright and short story writer. Her plays & monologues include: Kiss the Shadow, Soho Theatre; Reasons to Hide, Tristan Bates Theatre, (workshop productions); Gentle Persuasion, SubVerse,Theatre503; Lovers, Gielgud Theatre, West End Shorts Season; the award-winning Angelstate; Edgewise, National Theatre of Greece, and Gate Theatre (staged readings); Josie’s Restrooms, ICA; Tricky,Tart Gallery (published by Heinemann); Ithaka, Riverside studios (Best Play Award, BITS Theatre Festival, Pilani, India & published in Seven Plays by Women, Aurora Metro, Raymond Williams Award). Her collection of stories Nine Traces in a Circle, was recently published in Greece. She is now writing Out Where? a new collection of stories, awarded an Arts Council Writing Grant. More at: nina-rapi.com
Cherry Smyth is a poet, short story writer and art critic. Her latest poetry collection, One Wanted Thing, was published by Lagan Press, 2006. Her poems appear in Breaking the Skin, Black Mountain Press, 2002, the Apples and Snakes Anthology, Velocity, 2003,Magnetic North, 2006, The Shop, Staple, The North, Magma, nthposition and Poetry Ireland Review. She was a prize-winner in the Tonbridge Poetry Competition, 2006 and the London Writers’ Competition, 2007. She also writes for visual art magazines: Modern Painters, Art Monthly, Art Review and Circa. She is the Poetry Editor of Brand. See cherrysmith.com
Raffaele Teo is a freelance graphic designer & artist. After attending Art School in Italy, he went on investing all his energies in Comparative Literature and Humanities studies, moving to London in the mid ‘90s where he specialized in Graphic Design. He’s been working as a designer and illustrator since then for Chroma Literary Journal, Apis Books, Birkbeck college and the United Nations, among others (arteo71@hotmail.com)
Introduction: © Nina Rapi
Selection: © The editors
Contents: © The authors
Design: © Raffaele Teo
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