Biannual Magazine of Literature & the Arts Issue 14 December 2008
Welcome! Welcome to Issue 14 of Gold Dust magazine! We have our usual weird and wonderful lineup for you this issue, including
7 short stories, 9 poems and 4 flash fiction pieces. We’ve
got mystery, comedy and a whole lot of drama. Our Cover Story features an interview with
award-winning author China Miéville, who lets us in on his influences for Un Lun Dun and general thoughts on Young Adult fiction (p12). This winter, we have your reading sorted - you can take your pick from all our carefully chosen book reviews! We have an in-depth review of the beautiful yet heart-twisting book Draw What You See by Helga Weissová, the
Holocaust survivor who painted what she saw in the concentration camps Thereisenstadt and Auschwitz (p20), a peek at the anthology of poetry and short stories, The Clam before the Storm, from John Griffiths (p39), as well as 4 short and snappy book reviews (p6). And, for the the writers among you, we have some insightful writing advice from author Cas Peace in Can Write Will Write, as she tells us all about her own publishers. Our best prose pick is The Candlesticks by Jim Meirose (p8) and our best poem pick is It is not moved by me by Tendai Mwanaka (p46). We are very happy to welcome new features writer, Alan Kelly, to our team, also a talented short story writer (see One’s Elf, our mystery short story on p4), as well as new
illustrator Steve Cartwright, whose
work you can see throughout this issue, alongside that of Owen Pomery. That’s it from me until next issue - enjoy! Omma Velada (Founder)
Gold Dust www.golddustmagazine.co.uk mailtallulah@googlemail.com Prose Editor & Cover Designer David Gardiner Poetry Editor Claire Tyne
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