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What Was Lost shortlisted again

They just keep coming. The latest nomination to grace Catherine O’Flynn‘s What Was Lost is the Costa Book Awards where she’s in the running for best first novel. The Costa’s were previously known as the Whitbread’s and are pretty well respected in the book trade for bridging the gap between high-falutin literary and populist. Lest … [Read more…]

FotS remixes

Friends of the Stars have been leaking out tracks of theirs for free download on their blog. The current one is from their remix CD which accompanies the Lighting and Electrical album. Have a listen to the L&R Woodcutter Fabulous Remix of Sharpening a Blade… [audio:http://www.friendsofthestars.co.uk/audio/Sharp_remix.mp3] … and then go read all about it and … [Read more…]

Bearded Recruitment

Bearded Magazine is recruiting, specifically for an Advertising Manager and Marketing Manager. All interested should follow that link.

New NME venue

BiNS picks up on the news that The NME are launching a new club in Birmingham on February 7th in a new venue called “The Place I Love”. Specific details are sketchy but it seems to be connected with The Sunflower Lounge and to be located on Allison Street in Digbeth which I note is … [Read more…]

Meet the Authors

Meet The Authors is a nice looking local lit event tomorrow at the MAC with Brummie of the Year contender Catherine O’Flynn and Nicola Monaghan talking about their work. Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents’ sweet shop before embarking on a career of curious … [Read more…]

£4m for West Mids Films

Creative Wolverhampton have posted the press release from Screen West Midlands about their securing “£4 million of additional production funds to invest in film and digital media production over the next four years.” The new Media Production Fund is open to film and digital media projects from across the UK and productions will be green-lit … [Read more…]