Amy Bernays is a painter and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. Amy graduated with a BA(hons) in Fine Art from Central St Martins, London in 2001. Her work is a mix of paintings, prints, drawings; short stories and behind the scenes narratives from London and California. Using her daily experiences and various materials, she provides a window into western culture. Shortlisted for the Mercury prize in 2006, her work can be seen in galleries in Los Angeles, London and Edinburgh as well as online at www.bernays.net  www.newbloodart.com www.artamatoria.co.uk www.londonart.co.uk

Read This Events

The Read This Store has launched! Get over there to get your hands on any copy of RT, past or present, or to get hold of a subscription. You can also buy the brand new Read This Press anthology Skin Deep in the shop!

Editors Hayley, Struan and Dave, and Editor-in-Chief Claire, will all be reading their work at a series of events to promote the DUO anthology. They'll be reading at Forest, Edinburgh on Saturday 2nd May and the Bowery, Edinburgh on 18th May.

Editor Chris and Ed-in-Chief Claire will be competing in the Voxbox Sotto Voce Slam at Meadow Bar, Edinburgh on 6th May. Come along from 7.30pm... £2/£3 entry.

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In the print issue...

Read This 17 has hit the shelves, featuring work by Eric Hamilton, Lauren Singer and many others, plus it's illustrated by the incredibly talented Ms Amy Bernays. Get your hands on a copy!

Contributors

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for another opportunity to be published!

David Dykes is a teenage boy, who writes stories about worlds thatshould really exist. He's been writing since he was 14, and hopes to have it figured out before 40.

Eric Hamilton is a deranged artist who paints everything from canvas to freight trains. He also writes poetry and enjoys sharing his spoken word at slams or cafes everywhere from NYC out to LA. He was born and raised in Las Vegas, spent a lot of time living in east Los Angeles, and is now unemployed and attending college as a journalism major in New Jersey, where you can find him at art galleries and coffee shops politicking with the poets, art-fags, and random transient folk. He's a bit of a broken man who receives a lot of undeserved attention from women, smokes cigarettes, stumbles in and out of short-term relationships looking for love, spends most of his time waiting for lung cancer and responses from publishers, and is known to occasionally set fire to a booklet of poems aged with the experience of time.

From teenage mum to mother of teenagers, Jenny Love wanted to change the world but she couldn't get a babysitter.  She lives on the tip of South West Scotland and has just been accepted on Glasgow University's MLitt in Creative Writing.  The next two years will mostly be spent on a train.

Mairi Sharratt is a 30 year old poet, who gew up on the Black Isle and now lives in Edinburgh with her husband and young daughter.  She works part time in Public Affairs and Public Relations.  In a former life she was a performance poet and reached the dizzying heights of performing at the Glastonbury festival.  She has since retired from the performance poetry scene and now concentrates on page poetry - so far, with very little success.

Joshua Seigal studies philosophy at University College London. He has had poetry published in several journals both in print and online, and regularly performs in and around London. He is currently working on a book of childrens' poems to be illustrated by his grandfather, Michael Kitchener, and is obsessed with the music of Tom Waits

Fiona Sinclair has two obsessions, poetry and handbags. She feels the handbags must be symbolic of something but is not sure what. Twelve years ago she became a teacher by mistake.

Lauren Singer is a twenty something writer from New York who currently resides in Northampton, MA. When she is not writing you can find her internet stalking David Duchovny, frequenting local open mic nights and roaming the streets of Northampton with her hooligan cat, Jasper.  She can be reached at singerlaur@gmail.com.

Ross Wilson is thirty years old. His poetry, fiction and book reviews have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies, including New Writing Scotland 15 and Edinburgh Review 126.

You can go read some poetry, drama and prose by these lovely people, read more about the magazine, or better still - submit your work... either to Read This, or to our sister site, One Night Stanzas.
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