The Salon community is rich with creative minds—sometimes those minds and voices surface to public acclaim and it is worth celebrating these successes.
Congratulations to Lizzy Welby who has been awarded third prize in the short story competition from the prestigious Bridport Prize for her lyric and sharp work, “Jugged Hare”. We are hoping to schedule a Salon study of this work in the coming months.
“Mention the Bridport Prize and the eyes of writers everywhere light up. It’s not just the money – though that’s not to be sneezed at – it’s a prize really worth fighting for in terms of prestige and genuine literary accomplishment”
Fay Weldon CBE, patron of the Bridport Prize
Denise Larking-Coste has published her first book in French…as those in the Paris studies who have worked alongside Denise know, she is a poet in her ideas, words and passion for language.
Partitions, a novella by Denise Larking Coste
Partitions is a novella about love and loss, built around four characters – two women and two men – whose lives and loves come together at different times. The story is told through their different voices, in a poetical but simple and concise style which is one of the strengths of the author’s writing. Conrad, Strindberg, Camus are amongst the authors that the protagonists are reading, and this story also shows the importance of the books that accompany us through life at a given moment – and how they can even change its course.
Denise Larking Coste was born in Scotland and has been living in Paris for many years. A translation of her short story collection, Trop Tard, was published by Editions Le Reflet in 2002. Her writing has also been featured in literary magazines and on the Internet. In November 2010 she was long-listed for The Literateur magazine poetry competition. “Partitions”, published by L’Harmattan this year, is her first novel written in French.
It can be obtained on www.Amazon.fr under Livres en francais.
London Salonista Sandrine Joseph is displaying her gorgeous work inspired by Hampstead Heath in The City of Versailles: “Les Ateliers Portes Ouvertes 2012”, on the 20th & 21rst, 27th & 28th October.
Within a collective exhibition at La Tangente, SandJo’s photographic work will show how Hampstead Heath’ trees can hide and reveal hidden shapes and faces, all genuine master pieces showing how one can literally walk on the Heath like visiting an exhibition…
For more information, please call Sandrine Joseph (“SandJo”) on 0779 412 7822 and visit:
http://www.versailles.fr/outils/agenda/agenda/article/parcours-dans-lart-actuel-10-ans-deja/
http://www.la-tangente.com/
http://www.facebook.com/latangente32
Journalist and a writer, Sandrine discovered the Heath in 2000 and instantly fell in love with it. She has been photographing in Hampstead for the past 7 years, and since then the Heath has inspired her with writing texts, poems and taking photographs.She participated in Nick Hillel’s Heathlife project and exhibition at Burgh House (January-April 2012 ; www.heathlife.co.uk), and since then has been working on showing how the trees of the Heath can hide and reveal hidden shapes and images, all genuine master pieces (human faces, animals, odd creatures, patterns and shadows…). Showing how one can literally walk on the Heath like visiting a museum or like flicking through images of a fantasy book.
The show in Versailles will now bring Hampstead Heath to France!
