The Lancashire Writing Hub Guest Editorship for April 2012 is a joint placement for Blackpool’s Dead Good Poet Society – Vicky Ellis will be Editor-in-Chief, with fellow DGPs Shaun Brookes, Lindsay Barlow, Stephen Stroud, Lara Clayton, and Ashley R Lister.
Blackpool’s Dead Good Poets started at Blackpool Fylde College in 2009. The group hosts regular open mic nights, school workshops and fancy dress events. They blog every week at http://deadgoodpoets.blogspot.co.uk/ and are reet chuffed at editing the LWH in April.
The regular bloggers are all graduates of B&FC:
Shaun Brookes regularly performs across the county and has worked in the past as a football writer for the national papers.
Lara Clayton is a poet who performs at open mic poetry events around Lancashire. She is currently in the final year of a Creative Writing MA at Lancaster University and is working on her first poetry collection.
Stephen Stroud is a published poet and proud resident of Blackpool. In 2007 he achieved the UK’s highest mark for an undergraduate creative writing portfolio and the David Norrington Award.
Vicky Ellis is a performance poet who will be performing Unconventional Attitudes, her first full-length storytelling set, at festivals over the summer.
Lindsay Barlow was recipient of the 2009 Kaye Kier award. She is currently completing an MA in writing for children at UCLan.
Ashley R Lister is the author of several books and many short stories and works as a creative writing lecturer at B&FC. He can be found at his website www.ashleylister.co.uk or through Twitter: ashleylister
During their tenure, our intreprid poets with Vicky at the helm were responsible for managing all copy on the Lancashire Writing Hub website as well as contributing their own articles, and it has been a pleasure working with such an enthusiastic and talented group of writers. They published a total of 62 articles of all shapes and sizes during their tenure, 27 of which were News items, and 8 longer articles including interviews, reviews, and discussions about writing, 4 of which were penned by themselves. We would also like to congratulate the Dead Good Poets for their shortlisting in the Radio Wave Culture and Lifestyle awards for the Website of the Year Award.
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Links to their own articles are below:
