New Fairy Tales

ContributorsThe WritersElaine Crinnion is a graduate of The University ofPortsmouth in combined English and creative arts; isa former children’s story writer and illustrator forPortsmouth & Southampton TV; has been publishedas a poet in a variety of media including: online inJackie Kay’s National Poetry Day blog, 2006; on cds;in short films; on the Portsmouth radio stationExpress FM, and in pamphlets, anthologies, andjournals; has read - under the name StellaMandella - at fringe festival events from Brighton toEdinburgh; has won prizes for her poetry; runspoetry events and workshops for children; and is thedirector of the children’s poetry performance groupThe Wordipops. Elaine (as Stella Mandella) is alsoone half of the poetry duo The DisparateHousewives, with London-based poet JacquelineSaphra, the other. Elaine is currently writing thenarrative for a children's picture book about junglewildlife, and is also close to completing a pre-teens'novel in the fairy tale genre. Originally from Surrey,Elaine currently shares a terraced cottage inSouthsea, Portsmouth, with Philip Crinnion and threeoffspring between six and twenty-three years of age.www.myspace.com/stellamandellaLucy Ann Wade is 27 years old and lives inLeicester. Her short story Calypso was recentlyincluded in the anthology Lands End, published byInkermen Press (August 2008). Her story Lupus washighly commended in the Leicestershire short storycompetition in August 2007, and was subsequentlyadapted into a dramatic monologue and performedat a fundraiser event for the Ladyfest Festival(Leicester, 2007). She has written two plays, HighStreet Aphrodite and Hoodies, which receivedrehearsed readings at the Momentum PlaywritingFestival (Nottingham, 2005 and 2007 respectively).Lucy is currently working on her first novel. Formore information, please seehttp://lucyannwade.blogspot.com/Jacqueline Gabbitas was born in Worksop,Nottinghamshire. Her poetry has been published inmagazines and anthologies, including Poetry Review,Oxford Magazine and Images of Women (ArrowheadPress, 2006). In 2007 she was shortlisted for theNew Writing Ventures Awards and her pamphlet, MidLands was published by Hearing Eye Press. She hasbeen awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship to completeher first poetry collection. Jacqueline is an editor onBrittle Star magazine and works for EnitharmonPress. Her website is www.jacquelinegabbitas.netThe IllustratorsAs a child Faye Durston spent most of her timedressing up, writing stories and painting (messily).As a grown up, Faye still spends most of her timedressing up, writing stories and painting (slightlyless messily). She lives in a cottage on the NorthEast coast of England, and her first book for childrenis due to be published my MacMillan in 2010. Youcan see more of her work athttp://fayedurston.blogspot.com/linda sarah is an artist and writer who lives inLondon. You can visit her website athttp://singandfly.com and her blog for illustratedpoems and stories at http://travelandsing.comKevin Dean trained at the Royal College of Art, hehas worked as a illustrator and designer since 1983.His client list includes The BBC, The Natural HistoryMuseum and numerous publishers including Chatto& Windus and The Readers Digest. 'Jungles Hide &Seek' a children's book produced in collaborationwith Prof John Norris Wood has sold nearly a millioncopies worldwide. Kevin is particularly interested inJungles and he has lived with tribal peoples inBorneo and South America. He has also designedmarble floors and archways for a Mosque in AbuDhabi, one of the floors is bigger than a footballpitch! www.kevindean.co.ukGraham Dean has been taking photographs forover 40 years, but more seriously in the last 10years, since the onset of digital imaging. He’s hadone solo exhibition to date, and work accepted atnational and international exhibitions from Malmö toMiami. Website www.grahams-gallery.co.ukEsther Johnson studied illustration at theUniversity of the West of England where shediscovered a passion for fairy tales and children’sstories. She is currently based in Cheshire whereshe is studying a creative writing course to furtherher knowledge of the balance between word andimage. Her websites arewww.estherjohnson.co.uk andhttp://ewoketty.deviantart.com/Jeanette Salvesen is 19 years old from Oslo,Norway. She is currently studying art at "EinarGranum Kunstfagskole" in Oslo with the goal ofbecoming a children’s book illustrator. You can seemore of her work athttp://dreamsofalostspirit.deviantart.com/Anna Novitzky lives in south London, in a tall housefilled with stuffed animals which move when no oneis looking. She has previously been published as amusic journalist, an opinion columnist and a civilservant, but her heart truly lies in fantasy fiction.Anna loves Hallowe’en, fireworks and long lie-ins,and she misses her pet snake, Thierry.Issue 1 www.newfairytales.co.uk 3