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Launch of Brittle Star issue 41 at Barbican

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JOIN US on Wednesday 1 November 2017 at 6.30pm (for 7pm start) at Barbican Library for the launch of Brittle Star issue 41.

We have fantastic new poetry and short fiction from:

Mary Gurr, Daniel Bennett , Anna Robinson, Ed Cottrell, Lisa Kelly, Natalie Whittaker, Sam Reese and Myra Barrs.

We’ll also be launching our new Poetry & Short Fiction Competition.

And to accompany our readings we have wine and nibbles (and there might even be cake!)

Entry is FREE, but space is limited so please contact the Library on 020 7638 0569 for tickets.

Barbican Library,  Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
nearest tube: Barbican or Old Street
(Reading starts at 7pm and the Library closes at 9pm).

We’ve moved! Our new address is…

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We’ve moved! We’ve found a brilliant new home in a little office space alongside the lovely Candlestick Press at Diversity House in Nottingham. Thank you, Di and the team at Diversity. Our new address to add to your address books and contacts is:

Brittle Star
Diversity House
72 Nottingham Road
Arnold
Nottingham, NG5 6LF

If you’ve sent anything to the old Oundle address it will be re-directed to us (but only up to 11th October 2017).

We look forward to receiving your subscriptions and submissions in our new home.

– Martin & Jacqueline

Launch of Brittle Star issue 39 at Barbican Library

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Brittle Star cover issue 39JOIN US on Wednesday 30 November 2016 at 6.30pm at Barbican Library for the launch of Brittle Star issue 39 (yes! issue 39).

We have fantastic new poetry and short fiction from:

Kaye Lee, Edd Ravn, Sarah Marina, Peter Ebsworth, Rachel Thanassoulis, Michael Farry and Jayne Marshall.

And to accompany our readings we have wine and nibbles!

Entry is FREE, but space is limited so please contact the Library on 020 7638 0569 for tickets.

Barbican Library,  Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
nearest tube: Barbican or Old Street
(Reading starts at 7pm and the Library closes at 9pm).

Ha-appy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, hap-py birrrrthday

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BrittleStar-compSo, fifteen years on and we’re still bringing you fantastic poems and short fiction from around the world.

Oh my goooooood! A lot has happened in 15 years – we’ve lost a few editors along the way (but they’ve not wandered too far, we still meet up for food and drinks when we can), and I have more grey hair than is good for a girl and both me and Martin have more wrinkles than we care to think about – which is unfair because Brittle Star seems to be unaging (I suspect we might well be its painting in the attic). The magazine has had a few make-overs, though, and now is full of really wonderful articles and reviews of first full collections – which we’re very proud of. And we’ve kept a healthy subscription base, even in the lean years (which we’re also proud of), and we’re launching our second Writing Competition (this time judged by the lovely Alison Moore and George Szirtes along with me!).

We’re doing all this at our next launch for Issue 37, so come and join us at the Barbican library on Weds, 14 October at 7pm (doors open at 6.30) and share some amazing poems and stories and some Brittle Star Birthday Cake! (that deserves capital letters and the exclamation mark!) www.barbican.org.uk/library Book your FREE ticket now: 020 7638 0569 or by email barbicanlib@cityoflondon.gov.uk

See you there,

Jacqueline