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Dark Angels Note 140
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Dark Angels Note 138
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Dark Angels and Paekakariki Press launch new series of books
PRESS RELEASE Contemporary poetry meets traditional letterpress printing — Dark Angels...
Dark Angels Note 137
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Dark Angels Note 136: Book One Special Edition
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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...
Poetry works
Ahead of the publication of Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets published by Paekakariki Press,...
Dark Angels Note 135
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Dark Angels Note 134
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Dark Angels Note 122
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Dark Angels Note 121
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Dark Angels Notes 119
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Dark Angels Note 118
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Dark Angels Note 117
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Dark Angels Note 115
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Dark Angels Note 114
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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...
Dark Angels Note 112
Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note This week we’re celebrating the writerly wit...
Dark Angels Note 111
Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Friday Note This week we pay a visit to a maestro of...
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...
Dark Angels Note 110
Dearest Friend Welcome back to our weekly Note Pour yourself a Martini – shaken, not stirred...
Dark Angels Note 109
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Dark Angels Note 108
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Note This edition is a celebration of the...
Dark Angels Note 107
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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...
Dark Angels Note 105
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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...
Dark Angels Note 103
Dearest Friends Welcome back to our Dark Angels Note You’ll notice that we're switching up the...
Dark Angels Post 102
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly note It's Gillian Colhoun here As...
Dark Angels Post 101
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly note As this format draws to a close (we have just...
Dark Angels Note 100
Dearest Friends, Welcome to our 100th Dark Angels Note – 30 better than...
Dark Angels Note 99
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly note This week we hear from our veritable...
Dark Angels Note 98
Dearest Friends, Put the kettle on You're going to want to get comfortable as you spend...
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...
Dark Angels Note 97
Dearest Friends, This week we hear from Writer and Executive Coach,...
Dark Angels Note 96
Dearest Friends, Please say hello to the extremely talented writer, Francesca Tenenbaum On the...
Dark Angels Note 95
Dearest Friends, Wonderful to have writer, Sarah Hill, join us this Friday; such tender and...
Dark Angels Note 94
Dearest Friends, This Friday it's the undisputed queen of the word, Heather Atchison, who's...
Dark Angels Note 93
Dearest Friends, Staying with design this week, we welcome super strategist, Michael Gough...
Dark Angels Note 92
Dearest Friends, Dark Angels courses are often enhanced by the presence of visual thinkers,...
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...
Dark Angels Note 91
Dearest Friends, This week it's a personal pleasure to welcome Sharon Young to our...
Dark Angels Note 90
Dearest Friends, Very excited to welcome the marvellous Susanne Wakefield to this week's note...
Dark Angels Note 89
Dearest Friends, Happy to report we successfully wrestled the brilliant Andy...
Dark Angels Note 88
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note This week Martin Lee drops in for a chat Many...
Dark Angels Note 87
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note This week we talk to the quite...
Desert Island Poems
Imagine the island, palm trees providing shelter on the sandy beach, the water rippling…That’s...
Dark Angels Note 86
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our Friday note We'll be taking a break next week for...
Dark Angels Note 85
Dearest Friends, We have a treat for you This week we catch up with author and Dark Angels...
Dark Angels Note 84
Dearest Friends, Today, we scoot back across the pond to hear from John Dodds, Brand Strategist...
Dark Angels Note 83
Dearest Friends, Look who is in the hot seat this week With happy news to share, it's our very...
Dark Angels Note 82
Dearest Friends, This week we hear from Shoreditch soignée, proud Hullensian and...
Dark Angels Note 81
Dearest Friends, Hello to you and to 2022 We have lots of winning and wonderful...
Dark Angels Note 80
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we’ve invited the...
The book that started it all
It’s a bold claim And generally Dark Angels veer towards modesty But in this case, I...
Dark Angels Note 79
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we've invited Rob...
Dark Angels Note 78
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we're waving a vigorous...
Dark Angels Note 77
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note Today we say thank you to brand...
Dark Angels Note 76
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note Today we say thank you...
Dark Angels Note 75
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note We've managed to pin down the...
Dark Angels Note 74
Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from Customer Language expert...
Dark Angels Note 73
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we focus our lens on...
Dark Angels Note 71
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week talented brand writer...
Dark Angels Note 71
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week the talented Faye...
Seasons’ Greetings
“Let’s make a beautiful book” That was one outcome of the first Dark Angels ‘Mixing art...
Dark Angels Note 70
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we turn our gaze...
Dark Angels Note 69
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from Dark...
Dark Angels Note 68
Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week we hear from philosophy guru and writer,...
Dark Angels Note 67
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week Therese Kieran is in...
Dark Angels Note 66
Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note This week Rowena Roberts pulls back the curtain on...
Where will it all end?
One of the questions writers are often asked is: “Did you always know how the story would end”...
Dark Angels Note 65
Dearest Friends, Welcome back to our weekly Dark Angels Note For the next few months we'll be...
Dark Angels Note 64
Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be...
Dark Angels Note 63
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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...
Dark Angels Note 60
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Dark Angels Note 59
Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you And...
Dark Angels Note 58
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Dearest friends, Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you And...
Dark Angels Note 56
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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,...
Dark Angels Note 55
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Dark Angles Note 54
Welcome back to our writerly thoughts to distract, inspire and reassure you Be well, keep reading,...
Dark Angels Note 53
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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 41
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Dark Angels’ Note 40
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Mixing art and writing
We’re going to run an online Dark Angels course that explores connections between visual and...
Dark Angels’ Note 39
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Tilton Time
By John Simmons ast week I had the unusual (for this year) experience of running a Dark Angels...
Doolally
By John Simmons arlier this year I was looking forward to a new Dark Angels course The plan was...
London to Bombay 1939
A True Story in Novel Form By Faye Sharpe eil Baker kindly asked me to write for the Dark...
Hello everyone
Read this dispatch from the writer Becca Magnus, a great and true friend of Dark Angels, as she...
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...
Testing times
By John Simmons see writing as a good antidote to the Corona Virus situation Here we are, in...
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...
Floating on a sea of inspiration
By Richard Pelletier Isle of Whidbey, Isle of Whyte n just about every Dark Angels workshop,...
The story is always smarter than you
By Richard Pelletier Paying a visit to Material, an essay by the writer Lucy Corin o...
Writing is always writing
By John Simmons know the title might sound as vacuous as ‘Brexit means Brexit’...
Keeping Time
At Dark Angels residential courses, we sometimes think of our writing exercises...
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...
In conversation: Richard Pelletier and John Simmons
In which John Simmons and Richard Pelletier chat about a new novel from John, staying productive as...
In conversation: Craig Watson and Therese Kieran
Having recovered from a boisterous and wonderous gathering of Dark Angels at Hawkwood College,...
In conversation: Ted Leonhardt & Richard Pelletier
Short story A few short days ago, US Dark Angel Richard Pelletier and Ted Leonhardt, held an event...
In conversation: Doug Howatt & Richard Pelletier
his past October saw the first ever Dark Angels workshop held in America The American Foundation...
In conversation: Craig Watson & Stuart Delves
Co-founder Stuart Delves gets Craig Watson to deliver the big reveal How a piece of well-crafted...
In conversation: John Simmons & Rowena Roberts
Rowena Roberts and cofounder John Simmons talk language and connection, books, storytelling, and...
Spanish Crossings
Dark Angels founder John Simmons has just published his second novel, Spanish Crossings, set during...
Crossings
y Dark Angels partner, Jamie Jauncey, was struggling to translate the title of my novel Spanish...
In Conversation: Stuart Delves & Samm Short
Stuart Delves and Samm Short remember how last year's advanced course was a little...
Dark Angels in Conversation: Amsterdam
Gillian Colhoun and Stuart Delves ran a two-day, bespoke course for Irdeto’s marketing team in...
Fiction is the true alternative
by John Simmons cannot imagine that anyone reading this blog is a supporter of Donald Trump The...
Straight Outta Uni
by Jamie Delves “traight Outta Uni” is a funny time The first question that occurred to me...
Dark Angels in Conversation
Writing and place Co-founder John Simmons in conversation with Associate Partner, Richard...
Dark Angels in Conversation December 2016
Dark Angels Associate Partner Gillian Colhoun chats with student-writer, Lucy Beevor Gillian to...
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...
Dark Angels in Conversation Nov. 2016
John Simmons in conversation with Johnny Lyons John to Johnny You’ve been on two Dark Angels...
The gravelled voice, the minor chords
1969 A small, draughty farmhouse in the Aberdeenshire hinterland It’s the Doric that’s...
Leonard, a remembrance from early Dark Angels
From John: Up early, showering, dressing, packing, then carrying my belongings of the week...
And Who Shall I Say is Calling?
She was a Connemara girl Red hair The red was bottled, but still A wonder Talk about...
My path to Leonard
By the time I made it to Uni I was already pretty pleased with my taste in music Dylan, Van,...
“Leonard, I will miss you.”
You Want it Darker Leonard Cohen’s last great song, released just weeks ago His words have...
Dark Angels in Conversation Nov. 2016
Gillian to Mike So Dark Angels Ireland is official Delighted to have run this first course...
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...
Dark Angels in Conversation Sept. 2016
John Simmons & Richard Pelletier Founder John Simmons chats with associate partner Richard...
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...
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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