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Book launch: The Migrant Waders
We will be launching our second book, The Migrant Waders, at Church Street Tavern, Colchester, Essex, on Thursday 21 April, at 7pm. It’s a free event, so please do come and join us to help celebrate. The evening will include readings from contributing authors, discussion with Ella Johnston about the wonderful illustrations that appear throughout the…
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Migrant waders, work in progress
Dunlin Press’s upcoming book The Migrant Waders will feature portraits of wading birds by Dunlin Press co-founder and illustrator Ella Johnston. Here, she describes the creative process: “The birds are deliberately painted without a landscape. It reflects that these waders migrate across many lands and do not recognise the borders that humans create and that we see on maps.…
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Migrant Waders
It’s true that we first saw the dunlins at night, scurrying along the oozing mud of the Colne at Wivenhoe as the tide receded. Their shapes were indistinct, spectral, shades. Were they voles or vermin of some sort? They moved along the shore unlike any birds we had ever seen. Our eyes, adjusting to…
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The year in review
2015 has been quite a year for Dunlin Press. In January, the manuscript of our first book, Est: Collected Reports from East Anglia was covered in proofing marks and being read, and re-read – mostly on trains between the north of Essex and London Liverpool Street station. The cover, meanwhile, was being colour-adjusted to deliver just…
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This sky has plans for the future…
Is it autumn already? The Dunlins have been quiet, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been busy. Over the summer we accepted submissions for our next book, which will essentially be a collection about wading birds, shore birds – call them what you will – and migration. The book will feature some beautiful illustration from our very…
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Have you picked up a copy of our book?
What a wonderful thing it is to launch a first title and see it head out into the great wide world. We had a wonderful launch for Est: Collected reports from East Anglia at Wivenhoe’s wonderful bookshop (Est is pictured in the bookshop window, above), followed up by second mini-launch at a letterpress printing session…
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Est to launch at Wivenhoe Book Shop
We have a date for publication of Est – Friday 20 March. On the day we will be launching it in Wivenhoe, Essex, at the book shop, from 6.30pm. It’s a ticketed event and the book shop is small so if you fancy coming along then contact the book shop directly – they are running…
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Announcing our contributors
With only a month or so before publication of Est: Collected reports from East Anglia, we can reveal our rather esteemed set of contributors (above). Okay, so if you follow us on Twitter at @dunlinpress then you’ve probably already spied this vital info – it’s just that amid the proofreading and book cover designing and…
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