Writing Magazine

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The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2022 is inviting entries on this years’ theme, which is ‘Freedom’, with the chance to win a £10,000 first prize. Submissions for the annual, international Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize may be prose, poetry or non

NPR

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Hear three mini-profiles of musicians and filmmakers whose art captures Latinx culture and identity — in three very different ways.

The Paris Review

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In our eight-part series Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven takes apart and puts back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence each week. Artist Tom Toro illustrates each sentence Dolven chooses. © Tom Toro Americans are particularly b

Computeractive

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Writers have called on Amazon to change its policy that allows customers to read a Kindle ebook and then claim a refund for it within 14 days (see screenshot). A petition has been launched on Change.org (www.snipca.com/41542) urging Amazon to “protec

Computeractive

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Free Android www.snipca.com/41925 iOS www.snipca.com/41926 Why pay for ebooks when you can borrow them for free from your local library using Libby? Simply sign in with your library card – or request one – to browse available titles, then download th

Computeractive

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With the current concerns about the rising cost of living, there’s never been a better time to find a great freebie online, especially when it’s something you previously had to fork out for. Indeed, one of the few bright spots of the first lockdown w

Classic Rock

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Fast-rising Mongolian sensations are sensational. Last summer The Hu sold out Camden Underworld. Tonight they’re round the corner at a venue three times the size and it’s equally full – just like every other date on their European tour. They’ve gone

BBC History Magazine

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The early works of a pioneering Chinese photographer have gone on public display for the first time. The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, New York, is exhibiting nearly 50 photographs by Lai Fong (c1839–90), who founded one of t

Femina

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Katrina Sadomovska and Zenia Marenych founded Charizma Entertainment in 2007. The Goa-based company manages a international artistes to create unique experiences for clients across the globe. What type of events do you organise? Charizma Entertain

The Guardian

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In one of his more prescient observations, made nine years before his death in exile and disgrace, Oscar Wilde noted: “Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.” Fortunately for Wilde’s smoke-wreathe

Guitar Techniques

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The strap line of the Musicians’ Union logo proudly proclaims ‘Keep Music Live’? However, I might suggest that you have not experienced the oxymoronically rich phrase, ‘Light Entertainment’. On a good day, it’s a painless way to earn a living, after

Tatler Philippines

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At the young age of 9, Ernest Sarino Mandap studied tap dancing at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila and later learnt ballet and modern dance under the tutelage of some of the best mentors in these fields. Among his many accolades are Le Diplôme d’É

TV Soap

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A compassionate transgendered woman, she protects her girls and in return deducts dancing fees from their income. Deeply rooted to the club, stripping is entrenched in her soul. The former proprietress of the strip joint, she’s Uncle Clifford’s gr

PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

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1. To view your free ebook go to our web page at http://downloads.photoplusmag.com/pp192ebook.pdf Please enter this in your internet browser bar (not into Google) and allow time for the hi-res ebook to appear. 2. On the web page that appears, you can

Writing Magazine

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Avon has teamed up with the Mushens Entertainment agency for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize to find a new commercial fiction writer of colour. The winning writer will receive a two-book contract with a £10,000 advance with the Harper Collins

Dance Australia

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THIS year’s Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships have been announced, and three dancer/ performing artists are among the lucky nine to have received the generous award. Jo Lloyd, dance (Vic), Eric Avery, music/dance (NSW) and Latai Taumoepeau, performanc

BBC Music Magazine

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Do other listeners share the experience of being completely baffled by a piece of music at first hearing, wondering if they could ever follow it, let alone like it, then after an interval hearing it again and finding it made sense and spoke to them?

Denver Life Magazine

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The Colorado Music Festival and the Center for Musical Arts strive to advance the experiences of musicians and their knowledge through performance and education with the Festival Fellows Program. This year, eight aspiring professional musicians were

PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

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1. To view your free ebook go to our web page at http://downloads.photoplusmag.com/pp193ebook.pdf Please enter this in your internet browser bar (not into Google) and allow time for the hi-res ebook to appear. 2. On the web page that appears, you can

NPR

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The first single from Old Rockhounds Never Die is a brisk and unpredictable murder ballad that builds to a dizzying, rampaging climax.

Cairns Vibrance

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From the creative team behind My Name is Jimi, Simona Cosentini (Concept/Set Designer/Project Manager), Simone Tesorieri (Illustrator/Writer/Designer) and Jason Klarwein (Director/Dramaturg), comes new work: Lucky. A first draft of the work was recen

Dance Australia

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INDEPENDENT choreographer Rachel Arianne Ogle is presenting consecutive seasons in Perth this June, with a remount of her 2014 work precipice, followed by its sequel i have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night, which had its debut at

Woman & Home

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Who knew master impressionist Rob Brydon could sing! The Gavin and Stacey star is touring a new show with songs from Sondheim to Paul Simon and almost everything in-between. Charming and entertaining, he’ll also delight audiences with a cast of famou

Tatler Hong Kong

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Learnmore through 10 feature films and documentaries, including the likes of Mario Botta: The Space Beyond, a look at the work of the famous Swiss architect, and La Sapienza, a movie about an ageing architect trying to reignite his passion for design

Audio Technology

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APRA AMCOS’s SongHubs is a global program. As well as Australia’s capital cities, invitees can find themselves flying across oceans to hubs like LA, Nashville and London, or India, Toronto, and the latest addition, Brazil. Milly Petriella, APRA AMCOS

Independent on Saturday

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AS THE end of a very peculiar year approaches, many of us have endured a roller-coaster of hardships and challenges and have material for phenomenal tales. One such creative musical response to lockdown, Stories 2020, will make its debut at the Seabr

NPR

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Stream the budding country star's beguiling debut album before its official release on March 24.

BBC Music Magazine

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11 …letters fewer. With a new name to be announced in the near future, the ‘Colston Hall’ sign has been removed from the Bristol concert venue, currently undergoing rebuilding work. 24 …years old. That’s the age of Klaus Mäkelä, named as the new mus

Writing Magazine

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The Quiet Man Dave Prize 2022 is inviting entries of flash fiction and flash non-fiction. The international Quiet Man Dave Prize is run by Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University to celebrate the life of writer and theatre cri

North & South

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Street artists from all over the country will descend on Taupō over Labour Weekend to make a splash on the town’s blank walls at the Graffiato Taupō Street Art Festival . Follow the walking-tour map to view more than 80 different murals that redefine