THE INKY The Inky Writers Newsletter Autumn 2006 No. 39 INKY NEWS New Season of Signposts ‘Winter Workshops’ Signposts are launching another season of writing workshops and surgeries starting with a regular favourite - ‘Let’s Get Published’. Although most people still think of “getting published” as a process of finding an agent and then landing an advance from a major publishing house, it only takes a few returned submissions to realise that the process is not that simple. Do you know what publishers are looking for? Do you know how to get a publisher to look at your work in the first place? Do you need an agent, and if so, which comes first-agent or publisher? If you want the answer to these questions, and many more, then this surgery is for you. Established writer Daniel Blythe has had eight books published (and a new novel coming in 2007) and has worked with four different publishing houses in the last thirteen years. In this presentation, which is for new and more experienced writers alike, Daniel will give you a step-by-step guide that is aimed at maximising your chances of being published. The surgery will be held in the Signposts offices in Sheffield (details down below) on Saturday 21st October between 11.00 am - 1.00 pm. The cost of the surgery will be £6.00 / £3.00 concessions and places must be booked in advance. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Signposts’ and sent to the Signposts address (at the end of this newsletter). “Off The Shelf” Festival of Writing & Reading Comes to Town By the time you receive this Inky the “Off The Shelf” festival should be well under way and if you haven’t got one of the brochures yet then call the festival office straight away on (0114) 273 4400 to receive your copy. The festival is one of the biggest literary festivals in the country and with over 150 events on offer there is sure to be something to excite all writers and readers out there. Festival Co-ordinator Maria de Souza is featured in this Inky and will, hopefully, whet your appetite with some of the treats in store. Wanted: Your Stories in Barnsley Signposts want to collect stories from groups in the Barnsley area, working with writer Adam Strickson. We want to collect true, extraordinary and ordinary stories on local themes, anything from half a side to three or four sides. We would like to work with six different groups, each from a different area or community. The groups don't have to be writers groups, just groups ready and willing to give it a go, to tell their stories for a couple of sessions, and to work with Adam. The stories could be written, or told orally. The groups could be linked to health, to young people, to people from different backgrounds or nationalities, or any other kind of group. Each group will be able to choose a theme if they want to. Each group will take part in 1, 2 or 3 workshops lasting 2 hours each, and work towards a booklet made up of stories written and collected by the group with Adam. The booklets will be edited, published, launched and distributed in each of the neighbourhoods. If you run a group, know of a group, or are in a group that you think might like to have a go at this, then please contact Geoff at the Signposts address or email him on: signposts@lineone.net … and more workshops from Signposts Reflective Writing Workshop with Char March In November the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley will be hosting an exhibition based around the life and writings of Anne Frank. Titled “Anne Frank and You”, this new touring exhibition, created by The Anne Frank Trust UK, brings Anne Frank's voice firmly into the 21st century. In one of her diary entries Anne Frank wondered if, in years to come, anyone would be interested in the musings of a thirteen year old school girl. Sixty years after her death in Bergen-Belsen those musings, some everyday, many profound, continue to touch us by their essential humanity. To link in with this exhibition we are running a Reflective Writing workshop with established writer Char March. In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop Char will help you to capture your responses to the Cooper Gallery’s Anne Frank exhibition in both poetry and prose. She will also help you use the exhibition to develop reflective writing of your own experiences. Come with an open notebook, a freshly sharpened mind….. and pencil. Char is an award-winning poet, playwright and short fiction writer, and highly experienced tutor. Her credits include: three collections of poetry, six BBC Radio 4 plays and seven stage plays. Her poetry and short fiction have been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies. She is just finishing her first novel which is set in present-day Berlin and Leeds. The workshop will take place in the Cooper Gallery on Thursday 16th November between 7.00 pm - 9.30 pm. The cost of the workshop will be £6.00 / £3.00 concessions and places must be booked in advance. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Signposts’ and sent together with your details to the Signposts address. Novel Writing Day School with Linda Lee Welch Do you want to start writing that novel that you’ve sworn is “somewhere inside” or do you need help in rescuing one that you’ve already started but has managed to get stuck in some hidden corner of your being? If the answer is “yes” then you need to come to this Novel Writing Day School with Linda Lee Welch. The Day School, held in the Signposts offices in Sheffield, will cover character development, plot and structure, scenes and issues and much more. With the use of workshops, lively exercises and constructive feedback, you should leave the day school with a well developed framework for your own novel together with lots of good ideas on how to develop your novel once you get home. Linda Lee Welch is a prize winning poet, author of two published novels—The Artist of Eikando (Virago 2004) The Leader of the Swans (Virago 2003), a well established workshop tutor and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. The Day School will be held in the Signposts offices in Sheffield on Saturday, December 2nd between 10.30 am - 4.30 pm. The cost of the Day School will be £10.00 / £5.00 concessions and places must be booked in advance. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Signposts’ and sent together with your details to the Signposts address below. Play Writing for Radio with Rony Robinson & Sally Goldsmith It’s often said that if you’re writing for radio “use silence - it speaks volumes” - but what about the bits in between? The medium of radio for drama can be very liberating, it can mean more variety, more locations, more action, more imagination, and more originality but with all of this choice there must be many dangers. In this surgery, Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith will guide you through the pitfalls of writing drama for the medium of radio. Using their combined experience this surgery will help you to focus on the tools of radio drama: structure, story, and dialogue. This lecture based surgery will also include a substantial question and answer slot in which Rony and Sally will help you with your particular queries. Rony Robinson is a BBC radio presenter and reviewer, novelist, and playwright. Sally Goldsmith is an artist, musician, songwriter and playwright and together, they have won many awards for their dramas, in particular, their radio play "Last Loves", written by Rony with original songs written by Sally. The play won the Mental Health Media Award for best radio drama, and came fourth out of twenty two international dramas at the Prix Italia Awards in Milan. The surgery will be held in the Signposts offices in Sheffield on Saturday, January 21st 2007 between 11.00 am - 1.00 pm. The cost of the surgery will be £6.00 / £3.00 concessions and places must be booked in advance. Cheques should be made payable to ‘Signposts’ and sent together with your details to the Signposts address at the bottom of the newsletter. Over the coming year we plan to run a substantial number of workshops and surgeries throughout the South Yorkshire area, keep your eyes out for the Inky Newsletter as this is where most of them will be advertised. New to the Inky Newsletter? If you’ve picked this copy of the Inky Newsletter up at one of the festivals or come across it while browsing the net then you may not know that it is produced by Signposts Writing Development Project. We’re here to help support and develop creative writing at all levels throughout the South Yorkshire area and if you write, or would like to, then we’re here for you. We run various projects throughout the area including workshops, surgeries, writer’s resource centres and this, The Inky Newsletter. The Inky is published four times a year and includes news on many creative writing opportunities, courses, grants, competitions, interviews, live listings and much more. And, best of all, it’s free! If you would like to subscribe to the Inky then all you need to do is send your name and address to the Signposts address (on the back page of this Inky) and we’ll post it out to you as and when we publish each new issue. Off the Shelf Festival of Writing and Reading - October 2006 Sheffield's annual celebration of all things literary returns for its 15th year this autumn. 2005 was a great success with bigger audiences than ever before and more sold out events than promoters dreamed possible. It looks as though this year will continue this trend with an exciting and diverse mix of authors and media personalities including chef Hugh Fearley-Whittingstall, crime writer Ian Rankin, Orange prize-winner Lionel Shriver, biographers Claire Tomalin and A N Wilson with books on Thomas Hardy and John Betjeman respectively, BBC broadcaster George Alagiah, poets Simon Armitage, Adrian Mitchell, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Owen Sheers, and best-selling author Kate Mosse. Off the Shelf is known for its varied and diverse programme of events which is a feast for writers and readers - whatever their tastes. A whole day dedicated to readers and helping promote reading groups will be held in collaboration with Sheffield Libraries including authors Martin Davies and Margaret Murphy. There are events aimed at boys and men including a fantasy fiction event and a 'question of sport' style quiz, a book launch celebrating the life of late comedian Linda Smith, events mixing classical music and folk with poetry and words, Russian short stories, the 'Bitch Lit' tour, a fusion of world music and poetry with Mark Gwynne Jones and The Psychic Bread and Canadian slam champions The Fugitives. There are literary walks and dinners, local writers talks and launches, the chance to put your questions to a publishing panel, ghost stories and two events celebrating the life of Betjeman in his centenary year and newly commissioned work on plasma screens in the Millennium Galleries with words created by Sheffield poet Chris Jones. There is a wealth of events for children and young people which includes performances from favourites Anne Fine and G P Taylor and a whole host of community activities including respected visiting Urdu and Chinese authors. One of the strongest aspects of Off the Shelf is its diverse range of workshops on a variety of themes for those who love to write. This year you could try your hand at short story writing, football stories, performance poetry, creating strong female characters and a master class with author Jane Rogers. There's an event to get you started as a blogger and a workshop/walk taking the great outdoors as inspiration for your writing. The Festival is also delighted that the brochure cover for 2006 has been designed by Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell who will also be giving a talk revealing how he creates his amazing satirical cartoons. Festival organisers hope that the Off the Shelf is a festival Sheffield can truly be proud of that is both accessible and inspirational and which they hope readers and writers everywhere will truly enjoy. For more details of the festival and a brochure contact the festival office on - Tel: (0114) 273 4400 Email: offtheshelf@sheffield.gov.uk Or visit the web site at - www.offtheshelf.org.uk Writing Groups News Doncaster Women’s Writing Group, run by Ann Sansom, has moved and they now meet at Consort House (opposite the Civic Theatre) on Tuesdays from 10.30 am - 12.30 pm. This is a WEA group and all women are welcome. For more information contact the WEA on (01302) 872111. Sheffield Writers Club is Sheffield’s oldest established writers’ club and next year is their fiftieth anniversary. To celebrate this they will be publishing their second anthology which will include the winning poems from their current competition. The competition is open to all writers and runs until the 31st December, further details can be obtained by writing to: The Secretary, SWC, 66b Norton Lees Lane, Norton Lees, Sheffield, S8 9BE. The club is also planning to hold a reunion party in spring 2007 for any old members who would like to meet up again. More details from the same address. The group meets fortnightly at the Voluntary Action Building, 69 Division Street, Sheffield, on alternate Mondays between 6.00 - 8.00 pm. The next few meeting dates will be - October 16th and 30th, November 13th and 27th. For further information please telephone: (0114) 2810609. Access Poetry Barnsley are still meeting in their temporary home (while the Central Library is being refurbished) of the Emmanuel Methodist Church, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley between 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm. The group, which meet on the second Monday of each month, will be holding their AGM on the 9th October and this will be followed by a read-around. The following meeting on the 13th November will include a poetry workshop. For further details contact Andy Wattie on (01226) 381084. The Sticky Bun Writers have (hopefully) found a new venue upstairs at the Rutland Hotel, 86 Brown Street, Sheffield, where they will meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 7.30 pm. Their next meeting will be on November 7th when Sheffield Poet Geraldine Monk will read from the latest of her several collections: Escafeld Hangings, which is about the imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots at the Manor in Sheffield. Further information from Jenny King on (0114) 2366225. Rotherham Metro Writer’s autumn season is now underway and they meet between 7.30 pm - 10.00 pm on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The venue is Nellie Deane’s public house in the centre of Rotherham. All are welcome and for further information contact Brian Webster on: (01709) 371413. The V.I.P. Writers Group will be ready and waiting for you with poetry, prose, music and free refreshments as part of the Off the Shelf festival on Saturday 21st October. The event will be at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield and for more details contact the group c/o Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind on (0114) 2722757. The Inky Interview Longbarrow Press was launched in Sheffield last April, Dave Sissons has just caught up with the founders, Andrew Hirst and Brian Lewis, and together they look at the ideas behind the new press. Would you like to reintroduce Longbarrow Press (featured in The Inky No. 37, Spring 2006) and say how the launch went on 27th April at the Red Deer? Longbarrow Press has a dual base - Sheffield and Swindon - creating and publishing limited runs of new poetry sequences (ranging across pamphlets, postcards and prints). In part, the press developed from our dissatisfaction with certain aspects of contemporary book design and production. We think that the material object should be as distinctive a 'vehicle of ideas' as the printed word. Our common denominators, at all stages of the creative process, are care and invention for textual pleasure. The launch was framed by readings from three Sheffield poets, each of whom offered new and unpublished work: Chris Jones, reading from Miniatures (due from Longbarrow later this year); Matthew Clegg, whose Nobody Sonnets sold out their initial run on the night; and Andrew Hirst, closing the evening with a new sequence of poems from The Frome Primer. The event was very well attended, inspiring some animated discussion about the ethics and methods of small press production, and it suggested that public interest in this area is, if anything, growing. We've set a night aside during the 'Off the Shelf' festival with Westhouse Books, Broken Compass, Cherry on the Top and ourselves, to show the range and vitality that the small poetry presses in Sheffield have to offer. It isn't just our own experiences that are keeping us buoyant but also the help and interest others have shown toward what we're doing. What about the Swindon connection? Brian Lewis is the Swindon connection. Longbarrow Press developed over long distances - between here and there. My collaboration with Brian on The Frome Primer, which began in 2004, pre-empted the formation of the press and was partly the making of the distance itself. Each of the poems and the photographs of this sequence has a very specific sense of place, but it is the relationship between the poem and the photograph that defines the ground unique to sequence, not the specific geography. Most of this work has been assembled through the Royal Mail, with as little context or explanation as possible. Brian doesn't reveal details of where the photographs are taken, and subsequently I don't title the poems or give any textual indication of how they came about. We trust to mapping out this psychogeography mainly through instinct. You mentioned The Frome Primer. Are you from the Frome Valley area and what brought you to Sheffield? No, I'm not from the Frome region - in fact I've never been there. That's the whole point of the sequence really, the elusive Valhalla of citizenship, of belonging, like in The Wizard of Oz or Franz Kafka's America. The English are to some extent still clinging to the old ideas of belonging, islanders to the last. The further into the interior you go the more prevalent this idea appears. Frome appeals to me as the last non sequitur, as the most remote and inhospitable place left in England today, (because of its imagined tidy streets and pleasantness, I suppose). I was brought up first in a mining and then in a fishing community, both of which were subsequently erased. To some extent exile affects everybody today, it's just how you deal with it relationally. In the Tao Te Ching the seer treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and really that's how the sequence came about, that is, from this feeling of being strangers to ourselves. There are lots of city poems in The Frome Primer and the ability of modern cities to absorb contradictions is what I use as counterbalance to this negativity. Living in Sheffield fills me with civic pride, its people are open and dignified. I came here, as most people do, on a temporary basis, to study, and I stayed because it is possible to live in the city without fear. Arthur Rimbaud was at one point writing, 'I is another', but later apparently renouncing everything he'd written and recognising that, far from being a 'seer' he was just a 'peasant'. Though we pass through a succession of identities and wear different masks at different times, isn't there a hard and durable core to identity? There doesn't need to be a durable core. It seems more pertinent for us to talk of identities in the plural rather than identity as singular. The 'I' as plural, is, as I understood this, multifaceted, scornful, pious, detached and then deeply personal. Pessoa was unable to pin himself down into a single author, let alone a single identity, and I understand his position, adaption is the key to contemporary identity. In some respects it has become possible to see identity as double edged. Firstly there is the identity that is imposed on us as a perimeter by the social (class, race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, etc.). The personal and particular histories below social identification often remain buried, as Foucault makes clear time and again. This leads to the other, more pertinent, sense of identity, that is, to mask and disguise one's social self or to disappear from view completely. If we again return to Kafka's America, there's a sense, at the end, lost in the crowd, of Kafka's desire for anonymity. Given the historical circumstances, it's clear why this would be desirable for him. Both these senses of identity thread in and out of the personae in The Frome Primer, like a contemporary battle for souls. What Longbarrow Press seems to be doing is very much what a lot of little presses were doing in the 1960s, and I suppose what the Arts-and Crafts people were doing in the late nineteenth century. Are you consciously and deliberately reviving previous trends? No, we didn't set out to revive previous trends, in fact, I'm not sure we ever even discussed or were aware of their disappearance. I suppose not all Histories are linear. Art, for us, as with any decision we make for the press, is out of necessity, a pragmatic one, as much as it is an aesthetic choice. Of course the Arts-and-Crafts movement, along with the 1960s small presses, have preceded us, but part of the necessity that informs our work is the desire on our part for people to feel and sense poetry as a total experience, like Blake intended with all those chapbooks and illustrated poems. I'm sure the Arts-and-Crafts movement felt it before us, as well as the small presses in the 60s. We're not trying to reference past practices (or buck current trends), or be part of a Zeitgeist of new craft skills. We're simply trying to present poetry as we experience it. Isn't there too much of an 'anything goes' attitude to poetry these days? We're not against the proliferation of poetry of any sort per se, if it helps take it away from the specialists and back into the public domain. The problem with this approach is that poetry as an art form can lose its distinction and be perceived as window dressing, as a means of authenticating or prettifying failed or unpopular public spaces. The current trend of 'popularising' poetry isn't that interesting really. Who is it for and who is it by - Brecht, Mandelstam or Seifert? Genuinely proletarian poets don't become any more popular because of it. I'd be hard pressed to remember a single line from Charles Bukowski's poems, but I remember Charles Lamb's Old Familiar Faces in its entirety. Does that make me a sentimentalist? It's arguable that Bukowski's work expresses a concern with - and responsibility to - methods of documentation which might exempt his poetry (and his prose) from a direct comparison. However, the question is an interesting one. Is the primary obligation of poetry that of preserving sentiment (as in Wordsworth), and, if so, how does this obligation support or conflict with its other values? It seems apposite (in the context of The Frome Primer) to consider the parallels with photography. We make and esteem photographs according to these principal criteria, their usefulness as records (of events, for example) and their sentimental value. These criteria are not fixed or exclusive, but they might help us to understand how memory works on photography (as well as in poetry), how it drives and shapes the photograph and our responses to it. The spare, ambiguous images used for The Frome Primer do not obviously fulfil either criterion; this shifts the burden of context, asking the reader to make their own connections between the poems and the photographs of the sequence, the weight (of meaning, memory and sentiment) shifting from one to the other and coming somewhere in between. It seems, with both identity and sentiment, that giving the power of meaning back to the individual (e.g. the reader) might well forge new sentiments and identities. Thanks to Andrew Hirst ~ Interview by Dave Sissons Correction In the last edition of the Inky an error unfortunately crept into the interview with Theresa Tomlinson where the fourth question was printed in such a way as to make part of the question look as though it was Theresa’s answer. To correct this we’ve re-printed the question and answer as it should have been. So your editor thought your idea was 'too quiet for the modern young person's market'. Is the modern young person especially allergic to silence or have we always been like that when we were young? You see people jabbering into mobile phones or wearing headphones that barely suppress the heavy percussive noise within, and you wonder if people are unable to cope with silence, let alone appreciate its potential spiritual benefits. It may be that 'zappy', fast moving stories are what a lot of marketing people think young people want. Writers have to sell their books to publishers, so it's difficult not to be influenced by this. On the other hand I find that the modern market for young people does give a writer a lot of freedom as to the subject material. Really serious themes can be tackled and there's no set formula as to the way a story can be told. There are still successful children's books being published that are quiet and slow moving - Adele Geras's Ithaka for one. Our apologies to Theresa Tomlinson and Dave Sissons. Newsbits There are two New Creative Writing Courses which have just started in Hillsborough. Led by published writer and creative writing tutor Susan Elliot-Wright, the courses, which run on consecutive Mondays and Tuesdays, meet at Hillsborough Arena (Monday) and Hillsborough Tabernacle Church Hall (Tuesday) and run from 7.15 - 9.15. The courses are suitable for writers of experience or for those just starting out. For more information contact Susan on (0114) 2321434. Writing a Novel Course. Have you always wanted to write a novel? Do you find yourself stuck in the middle, or even at the beginning? Maybe you have written, even published, some short stories but find the idea of the novel marathon a bit off- putting. If this is the case you need to join this WEA course, run by established author and tutor Daniel Blythe, which will help you develop your writing confidence and give you the impetus and framework for completing a full-length work of fiction. The course runs on Thursdays, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm at Sheffield Independent Film, Brown Street, Sheffield. For more information contact Daniel: Email: danielblythe@blueyonder.co.uk or phone the WEA on (0114) 2423609 The new Barnsley Writing Group is now up and running and meets on the second Monday of each month at the Pack Horse on Church Street, Royston, at 7.15 pm. The main aim of the group is to provide support and encouragement for each other, pool knowledge and resources and provide feedback to each other. For more information contact Vasiliki Scurfield on (01226) 722571 or email: vasiliki@scurfield.fslife.co.uk Author requires writing space and accommodation. A mature writer is looking for a quiet space to live and write in. He is able to offer three months rent in advance (every three month if required) and can provide references, etc. If you can help please contact Nick Gilman on: 07904 449982 or email: spiritsquadron@hotmail.com Knightvision Magazine - Sheffield’s independent poetry magazine is now available from Rare & Racy on Division Street, Sheffield, price £5.00 Bridlington Writing Weekend for practised writers and beginners: Friday 10th November to Sunday 12th November: Ensuite rooms. Tutor: Liz Cashdan. Accommodation and tuition £130. Further details from Liz on 0142 368361 or email: cashda@onetel.com Footfall is the latest title from Christine Poulson and the third in her Cassandra James series published by Robert Hale. Snow is falling. An old woman reads alone in bed. The sound of breaking glass and footsteps on the stairs …… Read more on Christine’s website at: www.christinepoulson.co.uk LIVE LISTINGS October 2006 In October Tuesday 10th October Antics Upstairs @ The Red Deer - Dianne Darby, Thom the World Poet. A friendly, informal atmosphere. No stage, no amplification. If you'd like to perform just let us know when you arrive. The Red Deer, 18 Pitt Street, Sheffield. 8.00 pm for 8.30 start. £1.00 Info: Tel (0114) 2587 270 Wednesday 11th October Broomspring Writers Group Anthology launch Broomspring Writers roam the globe with stories to delight and disturb from their latest anthology. 7.00 PM Start. Free The Workstation Foyer, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield Info: Tel (0114) 273 4400 Saturday 14th October Barnsley Writers Resource Centre - Autumn Session Information & advice on all aspects of writing The Cooper Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley 11.00 am - 1.00 pm. Free. Info: Tel (0114) 2634787 Sunday 15th October A Journey of Stories with Inscribe An evening of eclectic voices featuring the first writers to develop their work through Inscribe, an Arts Council project which supports the development of writers of African and Asian descent. Hosted by Peepal Tree Press in Leeds. The Showroom Cinema Foyer, Sheffield. 7.30 pm start. £4.00/£3.00 Tickets and info: Tel: (0114) 2757727 Tuesday 17th October Archipelago - Poems, Sculpture & Photography - Sheffield poets The Word Train explore the notion of archipelago. A new anthology will be available with readings & an exhibition. The Showroom Café, Paternoster Row, Sheffield. 7.30 pm start. Tel: (0114) 2757727 Tuesday 17th October The Bitch Lit Tour– a group of wickedly entertaining authors whose work has been brought together in the Bitch Lit anthology. Bitch Lit contributors will be performing their work in character and talking about the representation of women in contemporary fiction (includes our own local Louise Wilford). The Showroom Cinema Sheffield. 7.30 pm £4.00/£3.00 Tickets and info: Tel: (0114) 2757727 And there’s much more but we’ve run out of space so get yourself an Off the Shelf festival Brochure! We always welcome entries for our listings page - If you have anything that you want us to include then please send us the details Barnsley Writers Resource Centre The Barnsley Resource Centre will be missing for a few months while the Central Library is being refurbished. Keep your eyes on the Barnsley Chronicle and the Inky for news of our return and for details of one off events in and around the Barnsley area. * See the one off event in the Cooper Gallery – details above in the “Live Listings” Sheffield Writers Resource Centre For information and advice Wednesdays 5.15 pm - 7.30 pm The Central Lending Library Surrey St, Sheffield, S1 For more info - 0114 2734 726 To be included on The Inky’s Listings - Email: signposts@lineone.net or contact Geoff at the address below. The Inky acknowledges support from: The Inky is a Signposts project - Signposts Writing Development Project www.signpostsonline.org Please send contributions for the next issue to: The Inky SIGNPOSTS 4th Floor, Furnival House, 48 Furnival Gate, Sheffield, S1 4QP For more information - Phone Geoff Briggs on 0114 2634787 or Email: signposts@lineone.net If you would like to receive a hard copy of The Inky then please contact us at the above address, we will need your address details and your permission to keep your details on our database. If you wish to receive the email version of the Inky we will require your email address together with your permission to keep your details on our database. *Please note* - The hard copy of The Inky may well precede the e- version by a number of weeks and some articles may be out of date by the time the e-version is received. *************************************************