We are launching the Anthology! Dates for your Diary.

We are launching! 

Dates in the diary now - Wednesday October 4th at the newly refurbished Poetry Cafe in London; 

and Saturday October 14th at the Old Fire Station in Penrith, Cumbria. 

We hope as many contributors as possible will come along to read and make each of these a great night! After that we have lots of offers from friends to help organise readings around the country - fantastic energy and we are so grateful for all the enthusiasm and offers to spread the news on all our work. 

If anyone would like to suggest possible venues for other launch events -  we're thinking of Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Bristol - please let us know, either in the comments box or by email to writetbcountedanthology@gmail.com

Details to follow and we are so looking forward to hearing you read your work. See you there!

Choosing a book cover . . .

We're now in the final stages of editing and choosing how the book will look.  We've had several ideas for a cover and we're finding it difficult to choose.  We want something striking, but also an image that represents what the anthology is about.  Our book designer also wants an image that is good design!   These are the alternatives and there are pros and cons to all of them.  My favourite is the barbed wire, because if reminds me of amnesty, it's very simple and the coils of wire in the middle look rather like a hand clutching the wire.  My co-editors like some of the others.  What do you think?  We'd be delighted to hear.