Welcome to DemonCrew.com
Posted on | September 20, 2011 | No Comments
Welcome to the new website of the Demon Crew – the DE MONtfort university CREative Writing community. On this website you can find out about what we get up to as we work and play with words, read student work, keep up with news, find out about events, and so forth. The DemonCrew.com website was relaunched in October 2011. Please bear with us whilst we get ourselves organised, ready to cast off onto the uncertain waters that are ahead…
John Kinsella
Posted on | December 6, 2011 | No Comments
We were enormously fortunate to have a visit on 6 December from Australian poet and activist John Kinsella, who gave a scintillating hour-long reading and lecture that invigoratingly mixed poetry and politics, the international and the local, ranging freely over all kinds of topics such as the link between poetry and ecology, reverse anthropomorphism and how a poem can be a place where difficulty and clarity meet. You can read some of John’s wonderful poems here.
John Kinsella at DMU
Rich Styles on Radio Wildfire
Posted on | December 5, 2011 | No Comments
"Dead Dog" on Radio Wildfire
We’ve just heard the excellent news that DMU creative writing graduate, Rich Styles, is to have his short radio drama Dead Dog played on the excellent Birmingham-based literary radio station, Radio Wildfire.
Radio Wildfire is a great project, run by poet Dave Reeves, and well worth tuning into. They broadcast live, and then they put a rolling series of enticing literary titbits on constant loop until their next broadcast.
The recording will be available from 5th December, and the link is here.
Podcasting on DemonCrew.com
Posted on | December 5, 2011 | No Comments
We’ve just added a podcasting section to the DemonCrew.com site, and we’re kicking off with Sally Jack’s wonderful national poetry day poems on the theme of games. Either click on the line on the top menu, or go straight to the poems by clicking here.
At Play with the Demon Crew
Posted on | October 10, 2011 | No Comments
Last Thursday, on National Poetry day, we celebrated with an evening of wine, snacks and poetry. The National Poetry Day event has become a traditional date in the Demon Crew camera, kicking off the new term in the fashion we mean to go on, with poetry and mischief.
Thanks to all who came along to read and to listen. It was wonderful to hear the variety of readings: from some of our new undergraduate and postgraduate students; from some old-hands; from our new dean of faculty Gerard Moran; and from some visitors to DMU who came along for the ride.
The theme of national poetry day for 2011 was “play”, and the poems explored all kinds of play, from the light-hearted, to the disturbing, to the downright subversive. Those with the stamina went on to for further National Poetry Day fun at Word!, Leicester’s spoken word poetry night.
Poet in Residence
Posted on | October 6, 2011 | No Comments
October 6th is National Poetry Day, and third year creative writing student Sally Jack has been in the Kimberlin library as poet in residence, encouraging passers-by to contribute to a poem of epic proportions on this year’sw National Poetry Day theme of games.
As is entirely approrpiate to the occasion, Sally has also provided a range of word-based games and entertainments for users of the library. Have a look at our picture gallery here.
The Gentlemen Press
Posted on | October 6, 2011 | No Comments
We’re delighted to say that our Demon Crew graudate, Kim Redway, has been hard at work setting up The Gentleman Press, a new publishing house for young adult fiction. And there’s still time to enter their opening competition. Here’s the low-down from their website:
The Gentlemen Press is an independent publisher based in Birmingham, West Midlands, which concentrates on new and emerging young adult fiction. To establish the publisher, a competition for young adults aged 13-21 will run from 12th September to 31st October 2011. Twelve winners will have their short story printed in an anthology.
The title of the anthology is Objection To Perfection and encourages entrants to write in any genre. There is a minimum word count of 500 and a maximum of 2,000. The competition is open to those living in the West Midlands.
There are three categories in this competition. 13-15, which will be judged by Jean Ure. 16-18 which will be judged by Nine Arches and 19-21 which will be judged by David Belbin. The results of the competition will be announced on the 30th November 2011. The book launch will take place in December on the Book Barge, an independent bookshop.
To find out more about the Gentlemen Press, visit their website.
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