You know those mesostics I’ve been hammering on this blog for weeks? Well they’ve only gone and won me the Writing for Design category in this year’s Design Week Awards.

Cross Words includes a booklet, posters and postcards, all designed by those lovely people at The Workshop. Consider my hat tipped in your direction.

In March last year I travelled to the Scottish Highlands with 14 other writers connected to the excellent Dark Angels writers’ collective (www.dark-angels.org.uk) to start what we think might be the world’s first collectively authored novel. I’m delighted to say “Keeping Mum” is now complete and published, and we recently held a combined launch party/celebration of 10 years of Dark Angels at the Goldsmiths’ Centre in London. A tragicomic tale of lies and redemption inspired by William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying”, you can order a copy of Keeping Mum via Amazon or direct from the publishers, www.unbound.co.uk.

Nice work by Mike Reed