AND LARRY YASKIEL IS AWARDED …..

Larry Yaskiel, who founded one of the oldest English-language publications in Spain, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to the British Community in Lanzarote, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published on Thursday 2 June 2022. 

Day 5 of our Ledanear to Song in-print Festival THE ALCHEMY OF CREATIVITY

the best practical and academic advice i have ever been given about the art process was succinct enough to be an acronym (CIP), standing for copy, innovate, practice. I have always felt that if read as Kip, that acronym would imply that not only should we copy, innovate and practice we should sleep perchance to dare to dream

Day One of The Lendanear To Song in print Festival presented by Sidetracks And Detours WRITERS FLIPPING FORMATS

in the nineteenth century and early to mid-twentieth century, serialization was an immensely popular form of publishing.

WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO

We are informed by the hard-working Miguel Ferrer, from the press office of The Cabildo that there is a new arts exhibition to be shown from the 3rd June to 27th August.

THE BEWICKS ARE BACK IN TOWN:

Steve Cooke´s weekly pages champion Rochdale in a way I try to emulate on Lanzarote in celebrating community, national and global arts here at Sidetracks & Detours.
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Expect folk ´n good music from ENGLISH FOLK EXPO

New team members have recently joined English Folk Expo to increase the team as the organisation´s work, reach and role continues to expand, so does the English Folk Expo team.

exclusive interview STEVE COOKE a master-chef all across the arts

And, of course, I think that creativity and the arts are essential to individual and community well-being. Engagement as active participants, either as creatives or supporters, is important.

COME WHAT MAY,…… don´t miss ´the arts´ this month, wherever you are

In the merry, merry month of May there are jazz blues and folk festivals across the UK and musiv, dance, theatre and visual arts all over Lanzarote

HERE´S ONE I MADE (well, cut and pasted) EARLIER

Of course, it is not only titles like The Book Of Days or the search engine equivalent that can pump a writer´s juices because all aspiring writers should be, and many established writers are, already, familiar with the huge benefits, to all types of writers, carried in a particular monthly magazine. I myself have been a subscriber for more than thirty years. Writing Magazine gives all sorts of tips from top writers to improve our creative writing skills but also offers pages and pages of sound business sense every month, and even helps us to network by sharing comprehensive lists of literary festivals and events and competitions. Writers, like my friend and Sidetracks And Detours reader Jenny Roche, keep an eye on what particular publishers are seeking and keep an eye on new trends and opportunities of publication, this offering subscribers, whether aspirant or established, new points of contact.
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STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE

"I grew up in Crimea but I also had a Ukrainian passport and now my heart is divided, my friends and family are Ukrainians and Russians, too. It's a disaster,"