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Your Messages
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1211165 in Books
- Published on: 2008-03-17
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 64 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
A spin-off anthology from the collaborative classic "Messages" by Lynne Rees & Sarah Salway, "Your Messages" is a selection of original work by 41 out of 115 writers from all over the world who took part in the online writing project during November 2007.
Customer Reviews
A literary collaboration that actually works
Your Messages is the result of a highly inventive online collaboration which ran during November 2007, where contributors were given a single day to write a response in exactly 300 words to a message of exactly 300 words created by Lynne Rees and Sarah Salway.
It is the same format that Rees and Salway used for their Messages collaboration. But these two women are experienced authors. Throwing the idea open to all and sundry could have been a disaster.
But it isn't. In fact, the quality of pieces in this collection is remarkably consistent and extremely readable. Humour, pathos, invention and tragedy abound, with the contributors squeezing every last drop out of the short word count.
There are many great lines scattered through these compositions, shining pieces of description or imagery that raises a smile or prompts a tear. It is genuinely that good.
As an added bonus apparently all the profits of the book are going to children's charity Kids Company.
Contributors: Sandra Andrews, Joanna Ashwanden, Alison Baldwin, Jim Barron, Gina Benson, Claudia Boer. Alison Burnside, Sarah Charsley, Annie Clarkson, Zoe Crosse, Rachel Crowther, Michael Curtis, Zinnia Cyclamen, Patricia Debney, Sarah Dunnakey, Ken Elkes, Leigh Forbes, Frances Gapper, Nicky Gould, Clare Grant, Rachel Green, Oz Hardwick, Kathryn Harriss, Deborah Heath, Alex Johnson, Lousie Laurie, Michael May, Bob Merckel, Yvonne Moxley, Brigita Pavshich, Sylvia Petter, Mary Rose Rawlinson, Pauline Rowe, Cath Selby, Caroline Smailes, Judy Tattersfield, Cally Taylor, Wendy Taylor, Bill Trub, Catherine Walter and Jamieson Wolf.
