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Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, Cerise draws us into their imaginations by carefully composing magical scenes where teapots, shoes, butterflies or even matadors appear to levitate as if asking viewers to suspend belief for just a moment.

Mindful

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Over the year-end holidays last year, my wife and I rented an apartment near where our children live, and our twin granddaughters had several sleepovers there. We decided to get them something to absorb their attention, and time, for several weeks: a

Best Self Magazine

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— When I was a little girl, I had a wild imagination. I didn’t live where bears wandered the streets, but in my mind, they were everywhere. My parents were puzzled by my fantasies, so at the age of three, they tried to set me straight after I had awo

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook Author DK Fields Publisher Head Of Zeus This first novel from DK Fields (a pseudonym for David Towsey and Katherine Stansfield) is a much more unusual, intricate and clever novel than it first appears. At

Lifestyle Asia

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In fluid amalgamations of graffiti, cartoons, and realist images, Ronald Ventura’s visual creations invite viewers to play with their imagination and discover their own realities. The artistic visionary is known for his dynamic images, with his paint

Popshot Magazine

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ISSUE 21 — DREAMAUTUMN 2018 Dream or dreams, dreamers or dreaming? We had an intense discussion at Popshot Towers about what this issue should be called. Such is life at a magazine. We agreed on dream, thinking it could also refer to an ideal situati

Digital Camera World

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FOR as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed creating unusual things in my mind. This is particularly true when it comes to my photography. I like to perceive what surrounds me through the filter of my imagination. I am amazed by the limitless inspi

Dumbo Feather

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Claire Dunn Facilitator and writer Sylvia Rowley Gregory Lorenzutti Melbourne, Australia December, 2019 Claire Dunn leads the way, barefoot, down a winding track behind her house to the banks of Birrurung, or the Yarra river. As we sit on the dry gr

Writing Magazine

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It almost seems too obvious to state that writing fiction is a way to tap into the very depths of human imagination. But for me, this is the ultimate truth. And I’m in good company. From William Blake to Einstein to Freud the imagination has been con

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Scoop

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Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. But what exactly is imagination? Some say it is the ability to mentally imagine something – a memory, a picture of the past. Others say that it is the ability to be creative – to think

Writing Magazine

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Dark Moon Books editorial team promotes dark fiction by publishing multi-author anthologies and single author collections plus the occasional novel. They want ‘unusual and invigorating dark fiction’ which is ‘experimental, innovative, or progressive…

TIME

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ACTOR AND ACTIVIST YARA SHAHIDI WAS BORN IN 2000, THREE decades after Angela Davis began wielding her platform as a UCLA professor for radical activism. But their generational gap hasn’t stopped them from becoming friends or uniting in their efforts

Time Magazine International Edition

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ACTOR AND ACTIVIST YARA SHAHIDI WAS BORN IN 2000, THREE decades after Angela Davis began wielding her platform as a UCLA professor for radical activism. But their generational gap hasn’t stopped them from becoming friends or uniting in their efforts

Writing Magazine

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At times one has to spur inspiration into life. Tackle this by picking up a small shell. If no shell is handy find a pebble. You might have one that you collected from a walk or a holiday; if not you will have to rely on a picture or possibly simply

Writing Magazine

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Winners of the prestigious 2020 Romantic Novel Awards, presented by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, are: Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award, for the best novel by a first-time author: Lorna Cook, The Forgotten Village Libertà Books Shorter

Literary Hub

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Many fiction writers say that their characters seem to have minds of their own. Writers sometimes report that they feel that the events in their novel, or even the words themselves, are being dictated to them outside of their conscious control. Some

Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

Writing Magazine

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Jo Fletcher Books is part of the Quercus family. Jo proudly states that the imprint is ‘a small but perfectly formed list’, publishing ‘critically acclaimed, award-winning and unputdownable novels right across the fantastical spectrum, encompassing e

How It Works

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■ Hi HIW, When we read a book and imagine the setting, for example, what is it we see that has been imagined, and how do we see it? I hope you can answer this question. Many thanks. James Sainsbury That’s a great question James! A well-written and

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

The Atlantic

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Sam Lipsyte PAGES 284 GENRE Fiction HOW DOES A YOUNG, AIMLESS man go from failed comic to corporate-wellness hack to revered lifestyle guru? Pretty easily, it turns out. Author Sam Lipsyte presents a hero for our times in Hark, a meditation

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

WellBeing

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A focused imagination can help you achieve goals and promote your wellbeing, but what about just a simple daydream? Did you know that even just allowing your mind to wander could be productive? “Mummy, I can see the dream stars swirling above me,” sa

ImagineFX

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Drawing has always been one of the most useful communication skills for creative minds. Henri Matisse once said: “Drawing is putting a line around an idea.” Every master painting starts out as a doodle, a way to bridge the gap from the imagination to

TRAIL

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“How is it possible for something that exists only in our IMAGINATION to become a reality? It is a remarkable quality of our mind that we first CREATE objects with our imagination and then bring them into our everyday REALITY. In fact, EVERYTHING sta

Writing Magazine

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Minding our own business, sometimes to the point of apparent indifference to our fellow human beings, is a character trait that is supposed to be particularly British. When we write fiction, however, we need to forget all about minding our own busine

Fairlady

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If you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin, you aren’t going to feel good about yourself. A 2016 study published in medical journal Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment found that regular exercise increases body positivity (no matter the physic

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,