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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Read Raw Blog Feed</title><link>http://blog.readrawltd.co.uk/</link><description></description><item><title>Spring is sprung</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=31</link><description><![CDATA[ The start of spring and the Blog comes 
back to life. The gap was not due to Winter hibernation. Wullie has been busy writing, performing, singing(in shower and in 
public) and being classic car nurse, Ian writing, performing and workshops, Mo 
writing, performing and doing her Mlitt studies, George writing, performing, 
setting up a couple of websites(actually this is a lie for Wullie did the work 
on these), and some success on the writing front as he won the Scottish Writers’ 
Centre 2012 Open Poetry Competition. All four were involved in 
events for the Weaving Musical Threads arts weekend in Renfrewshire. 
 We will be involved in the 2012 Renfrewshire Scottish Mental 
Health Arts and Film Festival. This is in October so there is a 
bit of time to go but the initial planning will include some open mic so 
hopefully we will get to meet some of you then if not before. As 
the saying goes …watch this space.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:23:50 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>Poet Laureate and Published</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=30</link><description><![CDATA[  The Scotia Bar Poet Laureate
competition has came and went. Wullie,
Ian and GW made it through the heats and into the final. Ian is now somewhat richer having come second. John Savage was the man on the night and is now the Scotia Bar Poet Laureate 

 Mo, despite being up to her neck
with her MLit course is progressing with her novel. 

 Sebastian Symes and the Case of
the Hungarian Foot by GW has been published as an ebook by Mx Publishing is
available now on Kindle UK -  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Case-Hungarian-Foot-ebook/dp/B006LLF6M4  

 Wishing everyone a very happy Chrismas and all the best for 2012. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:40:01 +0000</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>Update</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=29</link><description><![CDATA[  We have let the blog slip as there have been all those pressures of life and writing that beset us all. However time for some catch up. Book shop has gone victim of the High Street doldrums. Mo has started the Mlit at Glasgow Uni. Ian has just brought out the second edition of Unspoken Water. All four of us have been taking part in the Poetry Competition at the Scotia Bar in Glasgow. 
 We have finalised an anthology of the Poetry from the work we did with Renfrewshire Council in 2010 celebrating the work of Robert Tannahill and hope to have this launched early next year. 
 Things what we have been doing included taking part in the SMHAFF doing workshops and performances during the festival week. Ian and Wullie were invited performers at the West End Wurdz at the Ashtree Hotel in Paisley, Ian reading a selection of his poetry and Wullie in a change of tack sang some songs. 
 Personally I am on a bit of a high for I have an ebook coming out. It is being published, if that is the right term for an ebook, by Mx Publishing,  
  www.mxpublishing.co.uk  Hopefully it will be out soon and I will of course plug on the site so watch for Sebastian Symes in The Case of the Hungarian Foot ( especially any Sherlock Holmes fans )  
 G.W. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:23:19 +0000</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=28</link><description><![CDATA[  The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival is on during October and 
Renfrewshire is staging many events as part of it. The opening event was on 
Saturday in County Square in Paisley. Despite the rain the enthusiasm of 
performers and audience shone through. Read Raw are taking part and we are 
reading at The Bankhouse, Gilmour Street, Paisley on 6th October 
between 8.00 and 9.00 followed by a band. Also we will be at the Paisley Museum 
on 19th October, 12.30 to 1.30. If you can come along we will be 
delighted to see you. 
 Details of the festival can be found on    www.mhfestival.com   or download the 
Renfrewshire programme from  www.renfrewshire.gov.uk   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:39:07 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>GW went to London, not to see the Queen</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=27</link><description><![CDATA[  
  Sometimes it is good to be crazy. I submitted a flash fiction entry to the
‘Fishy Tales’ competition for the Thames River Festival. It was selected for display on Southwark Bridge and I was invited to read it on
the bridge on Saturday.  I have long had
an ambition to take the sleeper to London
and this was the opportunity. So Friday
night I caught the sleeper to London. Good journey down and on Saturday morning
walked along the Thames to Borough Market
close to Southwark Cathedral. Great to
wander through the market and then sit for a full breakfast under the walls of
the Cathedral. Spent the rest of the morning in Tate Modern and then on to Southwark Bridge. Read at various times between
1.00 and 3.30 and in addition to my own story read extracts from Moby Dick then
walked to the Tower before back to Euston and the train home. Such a good time I may do the trip again. 

   

 GW 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:05:05 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>GW let out by himself</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=26</link><description><![CDATA[  Trying to recover from the Edinburgh trip yesterday. Decided to catch up on the new look National Museum of Scotland. I am definitely out of touch. Building is beautiful but the exhibits left me cold other than the model ships. Too much space. Too much big writing. Motor bikes half way up a wall. Auto gyro hung vertically. Why can you not go and loose yourself in an atmosphere anymore? Everything has to be an ’experience’ and boy are we told what to experience.     Better was the hour I wandered in Grey Friar’s grave-yard now that was worthwhile. Probably because there was no big sign saying ’This is a grave yard’     Earlier I went to the Scottish Poetry Library afternoon reading at the courtyard steps. I had not intended to read but could not resist. It was a small crowd but good fun.     Evening event was the Gutter Magazine poetry reading in the Fruit Market Gallery. Very enjoyable. Jim Ferguson, Jim Carruth and Graham Fulton were the reason I decided to go and they exceeded my expectations. What with the chat, some libations, I missed last train home from Glasgow so bread and water for a few days to pay off the taxi.           GW 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:18:14 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>IAN&#039;S REVIEWS</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=25</link><description><![CDATA[  Been writing a lot of reviews lately for the British Fantasy Society and Concatenation. One of them was for China Mieville's latest novel "Embassytown". 
 China was supposed to be appearing at the Edinburgh Book Festival tonight, but cancelled, which is shame as I was hoping to hear him read something new, and get the new book signed, as well as a mega-proof of his last novel,"Kraken" (and I mean mega-proof, it is a kraken of a book - not your standard format). 
 On my website, I've just written two mini-reviews of the last two books I've read: the Pulitzer Prize winning "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan, and "Dinkin Dings and the Curse of Clawfinger" by Guy Bass. 
 You can read that here:  http://www.ian-hunter.co.uk/blog/comments/159  
 Also, at the mighty "The Horror Zine" site, my review of Adrian Chamberlin's "The Caretakers" has just been posted, here: 
  http://www.thehorrorzine.com/ReviewFolder/Caretakers/Caretakers.html  
 You'll see a picture of the dashing Mr. Chamberlin, and one of me in a cafe in Elie enjoying the best mocha in the world (well, it was then, but sadly, no more). 
 If you are into horror - stories, poems, art, information, then "The Horror Zine" is the place to go. 
 Happy reading. 
 Ian 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:28:38 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>Raindrops and Pittenweem</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=24</link><description><![CDATA[  Well, Read Raw set off for the Pittenweem Arts Festival in sunshine and good spirits. Ian and family were staying in a house and the rest of us spread between a camper van and tent in St Monans.We arrived early in the afternoon at the campsite in the shadow of the ruins of Newark Castle with stunning views across the Forth. After a happy day of wandering about we returned suitably fed and refreshed to the campsite and settled into our various abodes, Ian and family retiring to cosy beds in a nice wee house.     About 1 am the rains came with a vengeance. In the morning the campsite was waterlogged, Mo was floating on an airbed in her tent and the rain kept going sideways. Discovered GW had lost his phone and after a search decided it had been lost while returning the previous evening. The fruitless search, which included wandering around a waterlogged graveyard, resulted in getting soaked. This was recurring feature of the rest of the day. Headed into Pittenweem and after a wander round some of the galleries went to collect our tickets for the events we had booked only to discover the the Poetry Cafe on the Thursday night had been cancelled due to the performers being unable to get there due to the weather.     Wandered around a bit more, resoaking the bits of us that had dried out, had a delicious fish supper, a couple of beers and went to see the Khartoum Heroes &amp; the Fence Collective with King Creosote.A brilliant event with excellent supporting acts. As the rain was still going sideways and a serious lack of dry socks etc was manifesting itself it was decided to make a strategic withdrawal and return home the next morning. As Mo's tent was now doing an impression of an indoor swimming pool Ian and family tok pity on her and let her stay with them while GW and I returned to the campsite for another noisy night of beating rain and the wind howling round the ruined castle.     Next morning we collected Mo and made a discreet, if soggy withdrawal.     All in all, despite the rain, it was a great couple of days and no doubt we will return next year while making offerings to the rain gods to go somewhere else.     Our next outing is to the Callander Poetry Weekend where all the Read Raw crowd have slots on the Friday programme. More details here:-   http://www.desktopsallye.com/page22.htm    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:19:38 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>What&#039;s Occuring</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=23</link><description><![CDATA[  Apologies for the gap in the news. It is not that we have been doing nothing 
but that fates have a habit of ganging up on us. Mo and George have decided to 
close the bookshop in West Kilbride. The shutters come down at the end of 
August. We hope to have a read Raw bash in the shop so watch the site for 
details. Meantime stock is reduced by 50% so if you feel like a day out down the 
coast have a browse. 
 Last year we organised events in Paisley in celebration of Robert Tannahill 
and as part of this a poetry wall was set up in the town centre. In conjunction 
with Renfrewshire Museums and Arts, Read Raw Press are producing a collection of 
the best poetry from the wall along with some guest poets. Wullie has been busy 
getting this ready for the printer. We rather take for granted his ability to do 
this and run the website and all this while fighting off one of those summer 
bugs. 
 Early September you can hear Read Raw reading at the Callendar Poetry 
Weekend. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:32:45 +0100</pubDate><category>Welcome to the Blog</category></item><item><title>GUEST BLOGGING</title><link>http://iloapp.readrawltd.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&amp;post=22</link><description><![CDATA[  Ian is today's guest blogger over at Steve Lockley's website: 
  http://stevelockley.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-house-day-11-ian-hunter.html  
 offering some words of wisdom - it says here - about writing and the like, and he would recommend that you read the previous entries and keep in touch with the blog to pick up some nuggets from other guest writers, editors and publishers. 
   
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