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Welcome Dona Vajgand, plus more news
We have several things to tell you about today, but let’s start with announcing the participation of the designer and illustrator Dona Vajgand. Based in Sombor, Serbia, her passion is painting and she found out about Memories online and joined the project through our Open Submissions set-up. You can check out her site here. According [...]
Dreams and Memories
Memories team member Rishi Sodha, founder of Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA), has created his own dream version of the Memories book. Using the stories and images we have in so far, he has assembled a prototype of Memories with an incredible faux leather embossed cover, and bound it by hand. Pushing his layout [...]
Hello Bel Johnstone
Today we welcome Bel Johnstone to the Memories project. She’s going to be creating an image for our book, which is in aid of the cancer charity Maggie’s, in response to a story about Tom Preston, who discovered he had leukemia at the age of 18. Bel has specialised in making images out of tiny [...]
Just some news…
Firstly, I wanted to let people know about issue three of Popshot, the poetry and illustration magazine seen above. Founder and editor Jacob Denno has helped on the Memories project and the latest edition of his mag features poetry on the theme of Liberation. Just as with Memories, inside the illustrators respond to the poems [...]
The text is done!
Great news. Yesterday we subbed the final version of the final story to go into the Memories book. That makes for twelve ‘memories’, and the last piece was written by Gordon Kirk up in Scotland. His story tells the tale of how he discovered he had cancer six weeks after the birth of his daughter [...]
Another memory written
More news on the text side. I’d like to welcome Tom Stables onboard. He has written a fantastic piece about his partner who was diagnosed with lymphoma four years ago. She has received treatment and we’re glad to say she has had no relapse so far. Tom has written about several memories he’s had about [...]
Open writing – WINNER!
At the end of 2009 we invited writers who have their own experiences with cancer to write stories or poems for potential inclusion in Memories. After much deliberation I’m really pleased to announce that poetry enthusiast Joe Kriss has had a piece of work selected to be printed in the book – the winner of [...]
The Costa Book of the Year
This really resonates with what we’re doing on Memories. The Costa Book of the Year 2009 award went to the poet Christopher Reid for his book, A Scattering. It consists of a series of poems about losing his wife to cancer in 2005. I haven’t read the book but it sounds extremely emotional, particularly considering [...]
The text has been flowing in
We’ve told you plenty recently about artists who’ve recently agreed to work with us. I also have some great news about copy for the book. A few new pieces have just come in. Firstly, thanks to Alastair Upham, editor of DVD and Blu-Ray Review. He’s with Future Publishing up in London and volunteered to work [...]
Popshot mag backs Memories
We’re sending out our thanks to Jacob Denno at Popshot Magazine. Popshot fuses fantastic creative writing through the poetry it publishes with amazing imagery from the illustrators who illuminate the poems. Jacob has contacted Popshot’s network of writers via email and the Popshot blog to let them know that we are now open to submissions [...]
Write for Memories
Are you a writer, poet or journalist? Do you have a story to tell about how you, or someone you know, has beaten cancer? Or about a loved one who was taken by the disease? Would you like to see your own writing in Memories, a book raising money for a cancer charity? The Memories [...]
The layout begins
<Gasp> Thanks for that posting, Rishi. Don’t worry we know that you’re playing a big part in the Memories project, and it’s all coming along nicely. On the copy side things are ticking over, to an extent. Five of the twelve stories are over to Antony now, and he’s exploring layout options. We’ve had a [...]
More words being worked on
This week we recruited a new writer. Alastair Upham is an accomplished editor with Future Publishing’s London offices. I had a chat with him and he said that guys like us work on these magazines, writing articles and everything, but that can only satisfy to a certain extent. He wants to make a difference by [...]
"OK, now I'm crying…"
Though we haven’t posted anything yet this month, work continues in the background. On Monday, I received copy in from Kay Inglis, whose mother Barbara was taken abruptly by cancer of the oesophagus last year. Kay has written a wonderfully honest and touching story about what her mother meant to her. We don’t want to [...]
New writer joins Memories project
I met Kay Inglis when she was working on Imagine FX magazine at Future Publishing, and I was working on Computer Arts. She’s a great wordsmith, and she told me that she got her love of reading and writing from her mother. It’s her mother that Kay will be writing about for one of our [...]
Tom Dennis interview
Tom Dennis deputy editor of Computer Arts magazine kicked of the interview process for the memories project. Tom interviewed myself about my experience of cancer over the last 2 years, how it has effected my life and what I have learned. I looked back at a particular day I remember about my father before he passed [...]
A breast cancer memory commissioned
Yesterday I got in touch with Anne Johnson, who is a really nice lady who had breast cancer. Happily, she was successfully treated for it and her story is going to appear in the section of Memories where we talk to survivors of the disease. She’s going to be interviewed by Lara Glasspool, a journalist [...]
Help from the Computer Arts guys
We’ve all been a bit busy lately, but this week there was a little bit of progress. First up, the deputy art editor at my old employer, Computer Arts magazine, has agreed to create a mood graphic for this very blog site. Antony and I chatted it over and decided to ask Luke for something [...]
Starting on the text
Because I’m going to be the editor for the Memories book, I thought I should start by writing up one of the ‘memories’ that will go in it. I decided upon a story about one day that I remember with my father, who died of a brain tumour last November. The idea was to test out our [...]