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Writing in ensembles

Pauline Masurel is a founder member of the writers' group Company of Writers which was formed in 2008 and meets once a month in Bath.

The Short Review, edited by Tania Hershman, brings you original reviews of short fiction collections, written by reviewers who are themselves short story writers. The July 2011 issue includes Pauline Masurel's review of Valerie Trueblood's collection, Marry or Burn (which includes links to her other reviews for The Short Review). She has also written book reviews for Contrary Magazine and Green Prophet .

Heads & Tales is a loose collective of writers, musicians and artists, based in Bristol and founded by Ursula-Wills Jones in 2006. Involvement with the group has included reading at numerous storytelling events in the South West of England, recording an audio story set in Staple Hill and attending several festivals with the group.

Watermark is an anthology of writing by thirty-five graduates from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College. It was launched at the Bath Literature Festival in February 2005 and is available from Amazon.co.uk.

The book was written and edited by MA students from the class of 2003/04. It was edited by Robin Pridy, contains an introduction by Tessa Hadley and features three of Pauline Masurel's shorter stories.

Cover: Pauline Sturges

Design: Tim Wright

Tim Wright's In Search of Oldton is an amalgam of true stories that he and contributors have remembered about a town from their youth. Or is it a pack of lies? Shuffle the facts and judge for yourself. Mazzy's recollections of the place include motorways and imaginary dogs.

The last remaining documented memories of Oldton now exist online and as special edition packs of playing cards but the search was also turned into a radio play broadcast by the BBC in 2006.

Michael Szpakowski's project imagining ourselves consists of non-digitally-produced black and white self-portraits. and includes Pauline Masurel's self-portrait in words. A collection of the portraits showed at the Houston Art Car Museum as part of the exhibition Face in July 2005.

Writers Junction took part in Kicking The Can in Walcot Street, Bath in June 2003 and splashed around in The Bath Suite.

Various unsettled Claims are in progress with Randy Adams and Everdeen Tree. Claims first set sail in July 2002 at the Incubation2 conference, at Nottingham Trent University.

A few lines were cast in QUICK-SHIFT, a writing event that took place in January 2002, organised by Everdeen Tree.

QUICK SHIFT

The Blind Tiler's Assistant is a trio performed by the blind tiler, his wife and assistant in frAme5:Digital Labour, for Love or Money.

Under the Umbrella emerged from the course Experiments in Creative Writing: Collaboration, held at the University of Reading in Summer 2000.

Further words can be found, scattered on the waters in various trAce-related projects, such as: the Imaginary Post Office run by PostMaster Randy Adams, Home and Alan Sondheim's Lost project. Writing also existed as one part among many of Jevalenazdeth, whose voices could be read in the Collaborative Writing conference at the trAce WebBoard until its closure in May 2003. As for what a jevalenazdeth actually was...well, Jevalenazdeth was as jevalenazdeth did...or didn't. Hopefully that's clear.