February 2007
We were proud to introduce the very talented: Crista Ermiya, Paul Summers, Marion Husband and Ira Lightman with music from rising star Richard Dawson.
CRISTA ERMIYA is a winner of the Decibel Penguin short story prize. Her winning story ‘Maganda’ was published in November 2006 in ‘Volume 1: New Voices from a Diverse Culture’ (Penguin). Her short fiction has been published in various anthologies and a poetry chapbook is forthcoming from Identity on Tyne’s new publishing imprint.
PAUL SUMMERS WAS BORN IN Blyth, Northumberland in 1967. He now lives in North Shields. His work has appeared in print since the late eighties and he has performed his work all over the world. He was founding co-editor of the ‘leftfield’ magazines Billy Liar and Liar Republic and a co-director of Liar Inc Ltd, responsible for facilitating countless creative projects across the North in educational and community contexts. He has also written for TV, film, radio and theatre and has collaborated many times with artists on mixed-media projects. His latest collection ‘Big Bella’s Dirty café’ was recently published by Dogeater. ‘Home (in 3 bits)’, a spoken word/music collaboration with musician Dave Hull-Denholm was released in 2006.
IRA LIGHTMAN recently on Radio 4’s Midweek, duetting a poem with Peggy Reynolds, is a public art poet.
RICHARD DAWSON provided the music
