Dark Angels Note 168

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 167

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 166

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 165

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 164

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 163

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 162

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 161

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 160

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 159

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 158

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 157

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly...

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Dark Angels Note 156

Dearest Friends After our summer break, welcome back to our weekly Friday...

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Dark Angels Note 155

The weekly Notes will pause over the summer months and we’ll see you all again in...

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Dark Angels Note 154

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 153

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing On Wednesday...

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Dark Angels Note 152

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing Earlier this...

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Dark Angels Note 151

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 150

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 149

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 148

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 147

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 146

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing May is National...

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Dark Angels Note 145

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 144

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing Yesterday...

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Dark Angels Note 143

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 142

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 141

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week marks...

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Dark Angels Note 140

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week’s...

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Dark Angels Note 139

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 138

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels and Paekakariki Press launch new series of books

PRESS RELEASE   Contemporary poetry meets traditional letterpress printing — Dark Angels...

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Dark Angels Note 137

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing Yesterday was...

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Dark Angels Note 136: Book One Special Edition

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing In this...

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Poetry Please Dark Angels

Why publish a Dark Angels Poetry book, one that proposes to be the first in an ongoing...

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Poetry works

Ahead of the publication of Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets published by Paekakariki Press,...

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Dark Angels Note 135

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 134

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 133

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Notes 132

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 131

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 130

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 129

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 128

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 127

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 126

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 125

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Note 124

  Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing...

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Dark Angels Note 123

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 122

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week, we...

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Dark Angels Note 121

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week we...

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Dark Angels Note 120

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week...

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Dark Angels Notes 119

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week,...

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Dark Angels Note 118

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note Your eyes and ears are in for a...

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Dark Angels Note 117

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing On this day,...

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Dark Angels Note 116

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Friday Note   Observing This week,...

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Dark Angels Note 115

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note   Observing This...

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Dark Angels Note 114

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note   Observing Last...

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Dark Angels Note 113

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note It’s time to hide behind the sofa...

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Dark Angels Note 112

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note This week we’re celebrating the writerly wit...

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Dark Angels Note 111

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note This week we pay a visit to a maestro of...

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Neil and John run a workshop…

Nothing unusual in that you might think, but there is a difference and this might appeal to some of...

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Dark Angels Note 110

Dearest Friend Welcome back to our weekly Note Pour yourself a Martini – shaken, not stirred...

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Dark Angels Note 109

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday Note   Observing This week marks the...

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Dark Angels Note 108

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Note This edition is a celebration of the...

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Dark Angels Note 107

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Dark Angels Note   Observing This week,...

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Dark Angels Note 106

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Note Won’t you join us for a little saunter in...

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Dark Angels Note 105

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Note   Observing Hold on to your...

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Dark Angels Note 104

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we’re taking a trip...

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Dark Angels Note 103

Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Dark Angels Note You’ll notice that we're switching up the...

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Dark Angels Post 102

Dearest Friends,   Welcome back to our weekly note It's Gillian Colhoun here As...

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Dark Angels Post 101

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly note As this format draws to a close (we have just...

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Dark Angels Note 100

Dearest Friends, Welcome to our 100th Dark Angels Note – 30 better than...

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Dark Angels Note 99

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly note This week we hear from our veritable...

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Dark Angels Note 98

Dearest Friends, Put the kettle on You're going to want to get comfortable as you spend...

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Join us for a free one-hour writing and art thing

Do you fancy a somewhat strange and quirky writing experience   If so, climb aboard the...

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Dark Angels Note 97

Dearest Friends, This week we hear from Writer and Executive Coach,...

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Dark Angels Note 96

Dearest Friends, Please say hello to the extremely talented writer, Francesca Tenenbaum On the...

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Dark Angels Note 95

Dearest Friends, Wonderful to have writer, Sarah Hill, join us this Friday; such tender and...

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Dark Angels Note 94

Dearest Friends, This Friday it's the undisputed queen of the word, Heather Atchison, who's...

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Dark Angels Note 93

Dearest Friends, Staying with design this week, we welcome super strategist, Michael Gough...

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Dark Angels Note 92

Dearest Friends, Dark Angels courses are often enhanced by the presence of visual thinkers,...

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We, Me, Them, It and Me

I started the day needing to write something about a book called We, Me, Them and It This is my...

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Dark Angels Note 91

Dearest Friends, This week it's a personal pleasure to welcome Sharon Young to our...

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Dark Angels Note 90

Dearest Friends, Very excited to welcome the marvellous Susanne Wakefield to this week's note...

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Dark Angels Note 89

Dearest Friends,   Happy to report we successfully wrestled the brilliant Andy...

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Dark Angels Note 88

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note This week Martin Lee drops in for a chat Many...

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Dark Angels Note 87

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note This week we talk to the quite...

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Desert Island Poems

Imagine the island, palm trees providing shelter on the sandy beach, the water rippling…That’s...

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Dark Angels Note 86

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note We'll be taking a break next week for...

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Dark Angels Note 85

Dearest Friends, We have a treat for you This week we catch up with author and Dark Angels...

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Dark Angels Note 84

Dearest Friends, Today, we scoot back across the pond to hear from John Dodds, Brand Strategist...

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Dark Angels Note 83

Dearest Friends, Look who is in the hot seat this week With happy news to share, it's our very...

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Dark Angels Note 82

Dearest Friends, This week we hear from Shoreditch soignée, proud Hullensian and...

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Dark Angels Note 81

Dearest Friends, Hello to you and to 2022 We have lots of winning and wonderful...

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Dark Angels Note 80

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we’ve invited the...

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The book that started it all

It’s a bold claim And generally Dark Angels veer towards modesty   But in this case, I...

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Dark Angels Note 79

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we've invited Rob...

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Dark Angels Note 78

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we're waving a vigorous...

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Dark Angels Note 77

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note Today we say thank you to brand...

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Dark Angels Note 76

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note Today we say thank you...

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Dark Angels Note 75

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note We've managed to pin down the...

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Dark Angels Note 74

Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from Customer Language expert...

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Dark Angels Note 73

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we focus our lens on...

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Dark Angels Note 71

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week talented brand writer...

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Dark Angels Note 71

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week the talented Faye...

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Seasons’ Greetings

“Let’s make a beautiful book” That was one outcome of the first Dark Angels ‘Mixing art...

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Dark Angels Note 70

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we turn our gaze...

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Dark Angels Note 69

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from Dark...

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Dark Angels Note 68

Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from philosophy guru and writer,...

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Dark Angels Note 67

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week Therese Kieran is in...

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Dark Angels Note 66

Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week Rowena Roberts pulls back the curtain on...

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Where will it all end?

One of the questions writers are often asked is: “Did you always know how the story would end”...

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Dark Angels Note 65

Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note For the next few months we'll be...

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Dark Angels Note 64

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 63

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 62

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 61

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Here’s an idea

Where do ideas come from Whatever writing we are engaged on, we need the spark of an idea to get...

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Dark Angels Note 60

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 59

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you And...

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Dark Angels Note 58

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 57

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you And...

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Dark Angels Note 56

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Time after time

My first novel Leaves was published in 2015, but I had written the original draft of it in 1970,...

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Dark Angels Note 55

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angles Note 54

Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be well, keep reading,...

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Dark Angels Note 53

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 52

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 51

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 50

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 49

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 48

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 47

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 46

Dearest friends Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 45

Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be well, keep reading,...

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Dark Angels Note 44

Dearest friends Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 43

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 42

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels Note 41

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Dark Angels’ Note 40

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Mixing art and writing

We’re going to run an online Dark Angels course that explores connections between visual and...

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Dark Angels’ Note 39

Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...

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Tilton Time

By John Simmons ast week I had the unusual (for this year) experience of running a Dark Angels...

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Doolally

By John Simmons arlier this year I was looking forward to a new Dark Angels course The plan was...

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London to Bombay 1939

A True Story in Novel Form By Faye Sharpe eil Baker kindly asked me to write for the Dark...

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Hello everyone

Read this dispatch from the writer Becca Magnus, a great and true friend of Dark Angels, as she...

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Let us love, be loved and make a difference – reprise

By Claire Bodanis ‘Should have been’ are three words I don’t find myself using very often...

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Testing times

By John Simmons see writing as a good antidote to the Corona Virus situation Here we are, in...

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Good news from the front lines

By Jamie Jauncey ront lines are all on our minds right now I think of poetry as language’s...

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Floating on a sea of inspiration

By Richard Pelletier Isle of Whidbey, Isle of Whyte n just about every Dark Angels workshop,...

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The story is always smarter than you

By Richard Pelletier Paying a visit to Material, an essay by the writer Lucy Corin o...

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Writing is always writing

By John Simmons  know the title might sound as vacuous as ‘Brexit means Brexit’...

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Keeping Time

At Dark Angels residential courses, we sometimes think of our writing exercises...

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A note on our Writing Programme

Go Deep If you haven’t yet joined us on a Dark Angels writing experience, we can promise you our...

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In conversation: Richard Pelletier and John Simmons

In which John Simmons and Richard Pelletier chat about a new novel from John, staying productive as...

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In conversation: Craig Watson and Therese Kieran

Having recovered from a boisterous and wonderous gathering of Dark Angels at Hawkwood College,...

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In conversation: Ted Leonhardt & Richard Pelletier

Short story A few short days ago, US Dark Angel Richard Pelletier and Ted Leonhardt, held an event...

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In conversation: Doug Howatt & Richard Pelletier

his past October saw the first ever Dark Angels workshop held in America The American Foundation...

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In conversation: Craig Watson & Stuart Delves

Co-founder Stuart Delves gets Craig Watson to deliver the big reveal How a piece of well-crafted...

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In conversation: John Simmons & Rowena Roberts

Rowena Roberts and cofounder John Simmons talk language and connection, books, storytelling, and...

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Spanish Crossings

Dark Angels founder John Simmons has just published his second novel, Spanish Crossings, set during...

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Crossings

y Dark Angels partner, Jamie Jauncey, was struggling to translate the title of my novel Spanish...

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In Conversation: Stuart Delves & Samm Short

  Stuart Delves and Samm Short remember how last year's advanced course was a little...

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Dark Angels in Conversation: Amsterdam

Gillian Colhoun and Stuart Delves ran a two-day, bespoke course for Irdeto’s marketing team in...

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Fiction is the true alternative

by John Simmons cannot imagine that anyone reading this blog is a supporter of Donald Trump The...

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Straight Outta Uni

by Jamie Delves “traight Outta Uni” is a funny time The first question that occurred to me...

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Dark Angels in Conversation

Writing and place Co-founder John Simmons in conversation with Associate Partner, Richard...

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Dark Angels in Conversation December 2016

Dark Angels Associate Partner Gillian Colhoun chats with student-writer, Lucy Beevor Gillian to...

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A Highland writers’ retreat where guests learn to bring the outside in … and onto the page

  James Morgan, Deputy Sports Editor of The Herald THERE is the beginning of a grey...

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Dark Angels in Conversation Nov. 2016

John Simmons in conversation with Johnny Lyons John to Johnny You’ve been on two Dark Angels...

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The gravelled voice, the minor chords

1969 A small, draughty farmhouse in the Aberdeenshire hinterland It’s the Doric that’s...

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Leonard, a remembrance from early Dark Angels

From John: Up early, showering, dressing, packing, then carrying my belongings of the week...

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And Who Shall I Say is Calling?

  She was a Connemara girl Red hair The red was bottled, but still A wonder Talk about...

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My path to Leonard

By the time I made it to Uni I was already pretty pleased with my taste in music Dylan, Van,...

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“Leonard, I will miss you.”

You Want it Darker Leonard Cohen’s last great song, released just weeks ago His words have...

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Dark Angels in Conversation Nov. 2016

Gillian to Mike So Dark Angels Ireland is official Delighted to have run this first course...

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Dark Angels in Conversation Oct. 2016

Neil: It falls on me to start the next conversation in this blog series And I’ve kept putting it...

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Dark Angels in Conversation Sept. 2016

John Simmons & Richard Pelletier Founder John Simmons chats with associate partner Richard...

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Dispatches: 11 life-saving tips for copywriters heading out to sea

by Richard Pelletier They are the beloved ones The ones who know how to work with writers Who know...

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Tales of passion

by Jamie Jauncey On the second night of our recent Dark Angels advanced course in Spain, once they...

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Omission

by John Simmons ohn McPhee has been writing beautifully in The New Yorker for more than 50 years...

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