The Viking Hostage has been a bestseller in Medieval books on Amazon Australia Kindle throughout December. A guest post by me on writing the novel has just been published on The Writing Desk Blog. http://tonyriches.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/guest-post-writing-viking-hostage-by.html
The Viking Hostage top ranking in Australia
My novel The Viking Hostage is currently featuring on three bestsellers lists on the Amazon Australia Kindle Store (European History, Medieval History, Genealogy).
navigating islands
Just spent a few days on Uto, the outermost island amongst 50,000 in the Finnish Turku Archipelago. I was there with a group of artists from the Frontiers in Retreat network and students and professors from Aalto University and Helsinki University of the Arts. On the long ferry journey I ran a workshop on ‘Viking…
Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture
Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture is published at the beginning of October. It explores the relationship between place and creativity, with contributions from twenty-one artists and writers.
Writing at the Castle – postscript
Just returned from running a one day workshop for writers on writing with place, maps and objects at the fabulous 13th century castle of Sainte-Mere in south west France. The walled castle site with its tranquil gardens was a perfect environment to talk about how we write with a place, and to generate new pieces…
New book on portraits of Renaissance artists
My review of Maria Loh’s fascinating book Still Lives, on portraits and self-portraits of Renaissance artists, was recently published in Times Higher Education.
REMOTE PERFORMANCES – Radio Broadcasts from the Scottish Highlands
The last two days of the Remote Performances broadcasts are today and tomorrow 12-4.30pm on: http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/ Twenty artists have been working in Glen Nevis in the Scottish Highlands, making new work and presenting live radio broadcasts every afternoon. The project is documented at: http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk/ And my daily blogs are at: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/remote-performances-online/ So far the broadcasts have…
REMOTE PERFORMANCES Radio Broadcasts from the Scottish Highlands this week daily 12-4pm
Read the Blog and Listen In: http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk/ Twenty artists are working in Glen Nevis in the Scottish Highlands all this week and presenting live radio broadcasts every afternoon. With writers from Lochaber and beyond, I will be presenting a live slot on Thursday 7 August between 1pm and 1.30pm. We are examining the relationship between…
REMOTE PERFORMANCES
London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm present REMOTE PERFORMANCES New artworks made for radio and broadcast live from Outlandia 4- 9August 2014 http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk Remote Performances is a collaboration between artists London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm, (the world’s first art radio station). For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents…
Radio Dreaming
Currently writing an essay about Claire Cote and Anna Keleher’s extraordinary Radio Dreaming project where they travelled around Ireland talking with people about the Marble Arch Caves, off-grid living, local traditions, histories, music, and then created a series of radio programmes that you can listen to online: http://dreamingplaceproject.wordpress.com/radio-dreaming/episodes/
Tracey Warr Writing 