HEADS AND TALES NEWS

We have funding from Bristol City Council Events Fund to create a weekend festival on Horfield Common on the 5th and 6th September 2009.
It’s called THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON, it’ll have loads of fun stuff to enjoy, and it’s free. Come and join us!

We also have funding from Gloucestershire County Council to perform in Gloucestershire and to run some writer development workshops.  Look out for us at the Coleford Festival at the beginning of July, and in Stroud in the autumn.

WHAT WE ARE ALL UP TO AND HOW YOU CAN FIND OUT MORE:

URSULA WILLS-JONES
You can read Ursula’s short story The Wicker Husband at http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/ Please leave a review! Her short playlet Fermentation will be on in the studio at Bristol Old Vic in September as part of their recent new writing initiative.

When not incredibly busy running Heads and Tales, Ursula likes to knit. She is also, entirely for her own amusement, trying to write a dirty novel.

JET MCDONALD
Jetfly is a person and a band. In February he won the Missouri Review audio fiction award which is odd as he's never been to Missouri. In Autumn 2008 Jet toured eleven Independent bookshops in the UK with his solo music album Quiet Songs for the Now Time and story album Huffing and Puffing both released by Cleaner Records in Bristol.

You can contact Jetfly at jetfly@post.com ,or via his website iwww.jetfly.org.uk, hear some of his stories at www.myspace.com/pencilsnap, songs at www.myspace.com/jetfly and on You Tube. Look out for a new recording Punk Folk Disco in 2009.

PAULINE MASUREL
Pauline Masurel’s stories have been read aloud on various stages, in a tent, on a boat, at bookshops, in a disused toilet block and even on Radio 4. But don’t let that put you off. Her fiction is published online. Track some of it down at www.unfurling.net

Lost Plot will be published by Leaf Books in a collection of nano-fiction this Summer. The Story-blind Princess, which was first read for Heads & Tales, featured in New Fairy Tales (www.newfairytales.co.uk/) in February 2009. The Varnished Truth was shortlisted for the 2008 Asham Award and Discovering a Comet is the title story in a collection of micro-fiction published by Leaf Books in November 2008.

The garden path story installation for The Secret Garden Party festival in July 2008 can now be viewed online at http://www.unfurling.net/gardenpath/

CLARE REDDAWAY
Clare writes scripts for theatre and radio as well as the short stories she performs with Heads and Tales. She also writes for children. Download her script Laying Ghosts, a radio play, at www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk/.  

Her very short story A Night In will be published in Leaf Books anthology Ada and More Nano-Fiction,  in 2009. Oleg and Cornelia, a story for children, is in an anthology of short stories called A Suitcase Full of Stories, Bridge House Publications, May 2009.

The Queen of Sheba’s Feet is due to be published in another Bridge House anthology in August, 2009. This story has just been shortlisted for the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Award. Her monologue Cast Offs will be performed at 7.00 pm on 31st May at the Larkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park St, Cambridge.  Tickets available from www.adctheatre.com/Her book reviews can be read at www.incwriters.co.uk/incorporatingwriting.htm

CALEB PARKIN
Caleb has a blog which you can find at:  www.calebparkin.blogspot.com/

You can read some of his poetry in ‘Glass: A Journal of Poetry’: http://www.glass-poetry.com/volume-one/issue-three/parkin-blood.htmlAlso in ‘Blank Pages’: www.blankmediacollective.org/images/uploads/a04c536edbd07ae4c9399336e186d4ec.pdf And in ‘Helicon’ (University Creative Writing Publication): http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/Helicon/winter02.html
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/Helicon/mar03.html  And at ‘Tactile Bosch’, where he installed a poem:
http://www.tactilebosch.org/Year2008/sep.shtm Read about his latest drama production on Show of Strength's 'Trading Local' site: http://showofstrength.org.uk/about/trading-local-the-writers