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Formerly a creative writing freesheet, Notes from the Underground continues as an online arts and literary journal. During 2010 Michael wrote NftU's regular arts blog.
The White Review is a quarterly arts, culture and politics magazine, published in print and online, and established on a non-profit economic model. The current print issue is available to buy in bookshops and via the website.
The review was conceived as a platform to promote the work of writers and artists. It takes its name and a degree of inspiration from LA REVUE BLANCHE, a Parisian magazine which ran from 1899 to 1903.
N D Gomes was a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing Masters in the same year as me. His brilliant, taut, psychological thriller Me/You deserves to be published. As do his many impressive shorts.
Helen graduated from Ruskin School of Fine Art in 2008. She was named by Richard Wentworth as one of the best emrging artists in Britain in a piece in the OBSERVER. Her upcoming exhibitions include one at The Serpentine Gallery in summer 2011.
The wonderful Organ Grinder Records promotes new music. They currently work with six bands, of which I especially recommend Left with Pictures and Fireworks Night.
Laurie's recent show 'Wish you were here' recently exhibited at 20 Hoxton Square. "Laurence Owen uses painting to mix the mythic and the mundane. Alluring yet unsettling, each work contains a world filled with hollow pleasures and veiled truths, depicted in a style that looks deceptively na•ve. He sets up familiar landscapes and renders them strange by adding disturbing details. Sometimes adult and often odd, these details belie a cock-eyed view of things that is both bizarre and amusing. His work has a logic of its own and a freshness of colour uncommon in oil painting. Dissonant and alien yet pretty and familiar, it presents a suggestion of what may lie beneath whilst creating an imagery of delicacy and depth."