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Succour Salons coming up!
On Thursday 28 January there’ll be a pair of Succour Salons, one in London, one in Dublin, featuring readings from Succour Issue 10 – The Banal.
The London Salon’s taking place upstairs at the Betsey Trotwood pub, Clerkenwell, with Lee Rourke, Abi Curtis, Cherry Smyth, Gary Cansell, John Clegg, Isobel Dixon, Judy Brown and Cassandra Moss.
The Dublin Salon’s at The Sycamore Club, 9 Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, with Maurice Scully, Grace Wells, Laurence Fenton, Orfhlaith Foyle and Miriam Gamble.
Both events start at 8. Readings from at 8.30. Free entry – see you there!
New issue - The Banal - out now
Issue 10 – The Banal is out now!
The Banal is a collection of work that takes the everyday, the ordinary, the unlauded, the daily grind or even the outright boring and, in the modernist tradition, turns it into the subject of compelling literature and art.
Click here to pick up your copy now.
Call for submissions to issue 11
For Succour 11, our Spring/Summer 2010 issue, we would like to invite submissions which pertain not to a theme, as has hitherto been the case, but which adhere to a pair of conditions.
The Banal deadline passed
We are no longer accepting submissions for the Autumn/Winter 2009/10 issue – The Banal.
The theme and submission deadline for the Spring/Summer 2010 issue will be announced on this website on Friday 25 September.
Succour Salons in London and Manchester
There are a couple of Succour Salons coming up – one in London, one in Manchester. There’re always good fun – hope to see you at one or the other!
Here are the details:
London:
Thursday 30th July, upstairs at the Betsey Trotwood pub, 56 Farringdon Road, Clerkenwell, 8pm – 11pm
With readings from Simon Barraclough, Joe Dunthorne, Kate Campbell, Ben Brooks and Robert Selby
Manchester:
Friday 31st July, upstairs at the Briton’s Protection pub, Great Bridewater Street 8pm-11pm
With readings from Annie Clarkson, Melissa Lee-Houghton and Jonathan Hamnett
Both events free entry.
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Current Issue
Succour 10: The Banal is now available here at the on-line store and from our ever-expanding network of stockists.
The Banal is a collection of work that takes the everyday, the ordinary, the unlauded, the daily grind or even the outright boring and, in the modernist tradition, turns it into the subject of compelling literature and art.
Featured writers and artists are:
Prose: Duncan Brett, Kevin Brown, Gary Cansell, Abi Curtis, Cassandra Moss and Mark Staniforth
Poetry: Judy Brown, Isobel Dixon, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Christodoulos Makris, Shaunagh Darling Robertson, Ben Rogers, Lee Rourke, Maurice Scully, Cherry Smyth and Grace Wells
Prose poems: Annie Clarkson and John Clegg
Artwork: Derek Ogbourne and Martin Skauen
Next Issue
Issue 11 will be available to buy from May 2010, and will be entitled February 6th, 2010 as all texts and artworks it contains will be created on that day. See here to find out more, and for full details of how to submit work for this issue.
