Pigeon Park Press

Category: 2014

  • D’youKnoWriMo – part two

      11thJune   Read a couple of chapters of William Gallagher’s engaging The Blank Screen, a book about productivity for creative writers. Turns out he has kept a public log of his writing efforts on his website for some months. Did no other writing work today. So much for my own productivity.      …

  • D’youKnoWriMo – part one

    (D’youKnoWriMo – Do you know what I’ve been writing this month )   Why is this blog here?   Is it just a poor pun on the current JuNoWriMo?   Well, not justthat.  I was thinking about how I spend my time as a writer. What do I do each day? How to I divide…

  • My Writing Process – Blog Tour

    Thanks to Jacqui Rowe, who nominated us, we’re taking part in the “My Writing Process” blog tour. You can see Jacqui’s blog at http://brummagemscrewdriver.com/2014/04/ The idea is that we answer 4 questions about our writing process: 1) What are we working on? We are currently writing books 3 and 4 in the comic fantasy world…

  • The Birmingham Reader’s Map

    Pigeon Park Press wanted to find a new way to showcase local writing. It’s not very easy to find stories and poems that are set locally, but as readers we always get excited when we find something with a local flavour; something we can relate to because we recognise the setting. This is how the…

  • Collaborative book selling

    Pigeon Park Press had a table at the Birmingham Independent Book Fair on 12th April. We wanted to explore some of the ways that we might draw people in to look at our books, so we tried to make our table visually attractive and interesting in as many ways as we could. We made some…

  • Ten To One Novel completed!

    After months of co-operative, collaborative and competitive writing, the first draft of the Ten To One novel (edited by Iain Grant) has been completed. The story-writing project, which saw one author voted out after each round of chapters, started with ten authors and finished with just one, Simon Fairbanks. The finished story, a tale of…

  • Pigeon Park Press presents another Birmingham spoken word event

      Pigeon Park Press is pleased to announced that its sixth spoken word event, “Saints, Sinners and Fools”, will be held on 30th April at the 6/8 Kafe in Temple Row, Birmingham. The event, running from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, which is free and open to all, will showcase some of the amazing poets, writers and…

  • Ten To One Author Interview – Jason Holloway

    Ten To One Author Interview – Jason Holloway

      Iain is currently acting as editor and cat-herder-in-chief on a collaborative novel with TEN (count them, TEN) writers. A contemporary story set in a tacky British seaside resort, the Ten To One novel follows ten characters whose lives intersect that of a mysterious old man…       We thought we’d ask those ten…

  • Sunflowers

    There’s a free exhibition on at the National Gallery in London where they have two Sunflowers paintings by Van Gogh hanging side by side. One of them is normally to be found in London, the other is on loan from Amsterdam. I went there yesterday, and it’s the most fascinating experience to see them together.…

  • Ten To One author interview – Sue Barsby

    Ten To One author interview – Sue Barsby

    Iain is currently acting as editor and cat-herder-in-chief on a collaborative novel with TEN (count them, TEN) writers. A contemporary story set in a tacky British seaside resort, the Ten To One novel will follow ten characters whose lives intersect that of a mysterious old man…   We thought we’d ask those ten writers about…