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We seek to add new and lasting literary merit to the body of English writing by championing and encouraging the best emerging and developing writers and poets and by creating an appetite in readers for quality literature. Aimed at the writer, reader and the publishing industry we have an emphasis on including multiple arts to give a strong visual product with international reach and appeal. Our printed and digital magazine is a quality, innovative publication which juxtaposes the emerging with the experienced and includes interviews, original fiction & poetry, book reviews and articles. Our website brings together some of the best names in the industry with weekly articles from the likes of literary agent, Simon Trewin, Scott Pack from The Friday Project and the MD of Alma Books, Alessandro Gallenzi. Views from across the arts give a glimpse into the world of artists, writers, poets, film makers, publishers and agents.

Seashells for Alison Whelan

The sun pours long light down the beach in torrents and the strand is wet. A man gestures and approaches me. He is on bare foot and holding a pair of shoes in his right hand, neatly dressed as if he stops here often after a banquet or something else. He dips his hands into his pockets and presents some beautiful seashells he has found to ask me what I think. And as I tell him they’re very fine, a smile polished in the bright sunshine rolls over his face. He turns and leaves. Later that evening I picture you and I on this shore of unbridled marvels and slow time, our words like those finer things people come here and look for, but never find.

Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa was born in Warri, Nigeria, and he is currently living in Ireland. He studied at the University

of Lagos, and the University of Iowa. He obtained an MA from Waterford Institute of Technology. His poetry has been published in over 300 online and print journals and an Irish-Canadian anthology, Landing Places, and the African American Review. He was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize by The Swarthmore Literary Review, The Taylor Trust, and Jack Magazine. And He received the Yeats' Pierce Loughran Scholar Award in 2008. Photo credit: Yann Duarte

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Attractive, informative, sparkling and useful - TVFH is so many of the things I'm not - sigh. Iain Banks A distinct sense of energy exudes from the pages of The View from Here magazine. EssentialWriters.com The View From Here has worked with us and been a big help in launching some of our debut authors. Canongate Packs in a lot of interesting stuff, with some heavyweight interviews and comment pieces, not to mention original fiction. It also pulls off the rare trick of being highly entertaining. Roger Morris

The View from Here is a good deal more lively and interesting than the view from my study window. Marina Lewycka Where do I start when it comes to the team at The View From Here? They have so many innovative ideas. Markus Zusak Cheerful, thoughtful, beautiful. A light in a dark place. John Dickinson The View From Here gives a literary panorama that catches your eye and stimulates your mind. Jenny Brown Associates The View From Here provides a platform for accessible, thoughtful and interesting writing about books and writers. Paul Torday

Mike French : Senior Editor Sydney Nash : Managing Editor Poetry Michael Kannengieser : Managing Editor Fiction Kathleen Maher Paul Burman Stella Carter Naomi Gill Jen Persson Jane Turley Grace Read Diego Cupolo Kerrie Anne Charlie Wykes Shanta Everington Patricia Wood Julian Povey Chris Barrio Megan Taylor Vicky Roberts Anjali Joseph Simon Trewin Scott Pack Tom Chalmers Luke Brown John Siddique Ann Giles Annette Green Richard Collingridge Alessandro Gallenzi Brian Hutton Amanda Atwell Fossfor

The recruitment of publishing names including Scott Pack, Simon Trewin and Alma Books m.d. Alessandro Gallenzi as columnists for The View from Here is an example of how seriously the trade is taking independent literary websites. The Bookseller

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"It's pretty great to sit here at home in Sydney and think that copies of my book are just lying around London – getting stepped on, tripped over, and even picked up and taken home. I know I never needed to think twice before picking up an abandoned book, so I hope who ever picks one up has a good time taking off with it, and hopefully an even better time reading it." Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Fact into Fiction by Laura Nelson photo by Julian Povey I’ll make a confession. Some of the richest material for my fiction comes from my own real life experiences.

The night I helped carry home a drunken man lying in my street, the colleague who told me that her brother wanted to be a woman, the barrister who let me read his notes for a case. It’s all precious fodder for my short stories and novels.

But there’s a predicament. Indeed, several of them.

The very fact that these things happened to me presents a variety of difficulties.

First, writing fiction is a dangerous sport. I am constantly seeking out experiences I want to write about. The writer is naturally curious, and this can border on obsession; an addiction to risk-taking situations. I have travelled hundreds of miles across the wilderness in north east Brazil using only a pencil-drawn map that someone gave me. I have waited overnight in dangerous bus stations among possible bandits, drug traffickers and pimps. I have posed as a journalist, pretending to interview a Government Minister’s Private Secretary for a magazine article, purely because I wanted to mine her for information. All for the sake of my fiction.

The second snag with writing about real life is that I re-live past experiences; in other words, it’s counselling for free. But seeing a trained psychiatrist is very different to sitting at home with a laptop. Writing can have a detrimental effect. As I churn the facts around in my head over and over again, I am liable to sink into despair. Some things are best left forgotten, not dragged up to be regurgitated and reprocessed.

Achieving a balance between sanity and insanity is one of the guest articles

The Infinite Submission Improbability Drive turns a batch of submissions into paper birds

Entry 003: The Infinite Submission Improbability Drive

The Infinite Submission Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method for sending out submissions without all that tedious mucking about with rejections

From what we can understand the Infinite Submission Improbability Drive allows all probabilities to be actualised. Since the guide advises, "Don't Bother" to try to get a publishing deal, it therefore follows that to bother a writer must use the drive to send out submissions to agents and publishers.

The logic being, that it is so ridiculously improbable to be accepted that a stamp just isn't going to do it; you have to bend the laws of physics so that every conceivable outcome is achieved: One of which will be a letter back with a contract for you to sign.

A warning though: the guide does also say the

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Many publishers say they won't stand for this sort of thing because it debases the slushpile

It is important to dress accordingly when using the improbability drive

So print out one submission instead of hundreds, get changed into your tuxedo, feed your submission into the improbability drive and make your acceptance speech at the Booker Prize ceremony. Sorted. Photo of Paper Birds: Weston Boyd

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