Naked Girls Reading

It's going to be a busy few weeks for hotpencil!
Just a week prior to The Butch Monologues at WOW on the Southbank
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/wow-women-of-the-world-festival/productions
We are curating a literary salon with a twist.
Naked Girls Reading at Vogue Fabrics, N16.
27.02.14.
All the details are via our Facebook Page.
www.facebook.com/events/580740638682120/
Tickets are already being booked on line so we would advise getting in on the act early to avoid disappointment.
That's all for now.
xx
Dr B & Serge

Personnel Updates

The Butch Monologues.

Writer: Laura Bridgeman

Producer: hotpencil press.

Director: Julie Mcnamara from Vital Exposure.http://www.juliemc.com/juliemcnamara-vi.html

Photographer: Oskar Marchock, http://digitaloskar.co.uk/

Company: The Drakes.

The Butch Monologues

                              *** News Hot Off  The Press ***
         hotpencil press in association with The Drakes presents

   The Butch Monologues

Hot on the heels of There Is No Word For It – The (Trans) Mangina Monologues, hotpencil press presents a brand new collection of stories recording the female masculine experience. The Butch Monologues uses verbatim interviews with Butch Identified women living in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia and the Caribbean. The Butch Monologues re-positions the negative, socially threatening concept of female masculinity into a place of pride. Following the footsteps of Judith (Jack) Halberstam (Female Masculinity) and Leslie Feinberg (Stone Butch Blues), hotpencil shake off old terminology and reposition Butch. In punchy sections to be read out loud, The Butch Monologues explores butch identity, sex and sexuality with a no-holes bared approach. Using urgency and humour, this unique collection offers fresh language and intonation on butch beginnings, butch desire and desirability, butch bravado and vulnerability, butch on femme sex, butch on butch sex, switches, stones, violence, heroes and clothing.

Readings will feature the Drakes: the UK’s first butch members group.

“It’s a love letter. It’s a manifesto. It’s a way of life.”

The Butch Monologues

Review for hotpencil press’s There Is No Word For It

“It is poignant, bawdy, lyrical and sometimes terrifying.”

Roz Kaveney, Times Literary Supplement.  

www.hotpencilpress.com

manginamonologues@live.com

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Details to follow. 

Private View,The Bell. Liverpool Street, 6th March, 2014. 

World Premiere, WOW festival, The Southbank. 8th March, 2014.

Conference and Festivals

Soooo. Off the back of the Talking Bodies conference hotpencil are going to Leeds in June described as "London of the North". The conference, at the university is around the title:

Recognising Diversity? Equalities in Principle and Practice. 

Highlights for this event include Paris Lees, and Jason Elvis Barker's film 'Millenium Man' and Tom O'Tottenham and Serge Nicholson's film 'Trans Guys Are...' . We'll be reading a selection of the stories from There Is No Word For It and taking questions from the floor. We will also be selling books and generally spreading the good word. After Recognising, later in the year, we are hoping to be hitting two festivals in Northern Ireland and Slovenia. As usual, watch this space, for all relevant updates and info.

That's all for now.
More anon,
Much love,
Dr B & Serge xx

Talking Bodies

Finally, our feet are touching the ground after returning from Chester and the Talking Bodies conference. The readings went down a storm and it was amazing to hear other work exploring identity, sexuality and representation. 

A big thanks to Dr Emma Rees for inviting us and also putting us up in the "posh" digs with Naomi Woolf. It was a very inspiring and uplifting few days. The press made contacts all over the world and are trying to get the work out to the Australian Mardi Gras in 2014. 

All systems go now and looking forward to reading and presenting @ Leeds University for the LGBT conference in June. 

Much Love, 
Laura & Serge

Chester

En route to Chester this evening to read from TINWFI. 
We have just been informed that we have been up/down graded from the University Campus and are now staying in the Travelodge. This time our permanent book and publicity designer, Simon Croft, will read for the first time, as will Dr B. We are suitably on just before dinner and the feminist pub quiz. We'll see how the work goes down. We've made a strong selection: 24 texts including perenial favourites: Silver Birches, The Rain,  Wanker's Wrist, A Woman, Colourful Shirts and Naming It. 

More anon post the grand departure from Euston.  

http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/431/Chester-Central-Delamere-Street-hotel

Queer Episodes

hotpencil have been collaborating with Little Episodes to produce a new anthology entitled Queer Episodes. In this, there are three excerpts from our collection: There Is No Word For It and also a new short story from Laura Bridgeman (Dr B) called: Mum, Peggy Shaw and the Uniqlo Trilby. The final edits are currently underway and the launch for Queer Episodes will be held at Madame JoJos with a line up of acts and bands being finalised as we write.

More news anon.
Have a great weekend.
xx
Laura & Serge