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!

Issue 14 - January / February 2009 - Contributors

Jamie Mollart is a writer based in Leicester, England. His work has been published in a selection of regional magazines, he previously had a weekly lifestyle column in the Leicester Mercury Newspaper and writes music reviews and feature articles for "Disorder" magazine. He is working on a literary-fiction novel that flirts with classic horror and is presently seeking representation. In the real world he lives with his fiance and cat and is training for the London marathon.

Samuel Prince’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mimesis, nthposition, Obsessed with Pipework, South Bank Poetry, Trespass and Under the Radar.  Born in 1980 and brought up in West Yorkshire and Norfolk, he now lives and works in London.
Samuel's work is also featured in the print issue of Read This 14.

Andrew Burke is 21 and was born and raised in Ireland. He currently lives and studies in Edinburgh. He has been writing poetry since he was fifteen, in addition to which he also writes and performs stand-up comedy around Scotland. He won the Lewis Edwards prize for poetry in 2007 and has since embarked on a painstakingly slow campaign of world domination.
Andrew's work is also featured in the print issue of Read This 14.

Jessica Winch is in her final year studying English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.  She has just returned from a year abroad in Barcelona, where she spent a lot of time drinking coffee and was bitten by the poetry bug.  While in Spain, she enrolled on an online writing workshop, which gave her the confidence to continue writing poetry on her return to Scotland.  Her goals now are to graduate, write at least five memorable poems, and work out how to combine a job with a Masters degree with a year in France.

Tamarisk Kay is a poet and writer currently resident on a narrowboat in central London (before you ask no, it's not cold in the winter).  She has previously been published in the Next anthology and spends her days scribbling frantically in the company of her two lurchers.  She is inspired by the beauty of the world, and spends quite a lot of her time shouting at the radio about the wide variety of social and political issues which get her a bit het up.
Tamarisk's work is also featured in the print issue of Read This 14.

Tyler Cobb is a poet living in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College. His work has appeared in BlazeVOX, The Blue Print Review, and Apt.

 

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