GUY MANKOWSKI

Drawing from research into psycho-analysis, Tarot and numerology, this article took a long time to write but is now live in the excellent 3:AM Magazine... http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/cherubs-zeros-glass-children-swans-symbolism-in-lyrics-of-the-smashing-pumpkins/

On 5th January I'm starting a new night for Creative Writers called  New Art Social . It'll be a place for emerging writers to share their work alongside more established novelists and poets. I'm keen to start to break down the boundaries between writers, given we all share the same challenges, and I'm excited by the writers who are signed up for the night.  John Challis (recipient of a Northern Writers Award and author of 'The Black Cab' and Kris Johnson (who's been featured in Poetry London and The Irish Literary Review) head up the poetry component.  Emily Anderson  will be reading samples of humorous writing from WW1, which her PhD is concerned with. Amy Mccadden and Genna Godley (whose work is on ‘weirding’ or reconstructing the human body) will also read poetry, alonside David Bell, whose work ‘dispels silly local fantasies’. On the prose side Chris Fuller and Nikita Garner will be reading. Also featured are Unthanks Books'  Sarah Dobbs , ...

With 'An Honest Deceit' having recently been re-released as an Audiobook (narrated by Ian Rankin's excellent narrator Chris Reilly) it was truly great to see that the book has just reached number one in quite a few of Amazon's charts- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Honest-Deceit-gripping-thriller-shocking-ebook/dp/B01LXYS1OR/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= You can buy it as a novel, for the Kindle, or (if you're more of a listener) as an Audiobook on the link above. Thanks to all those who've bought it and made it my most reviewed book so far. 

I thought a blog post making my PhD readily available online might be helpful. This was a Creative Writing PhD on self-design in the post-punk movement. The novel component of the PhD, entitled 'How I Left The National Grid', is available as  a free preview on Google Books, here-   https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/How_I_Left_The_National_Grid.html?id=yABKBgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y   Abstract Through creative and critical practice, this PhD makes an original contribution by developing theories of self-design in relation to understandings and creative representations of the post-punk movement. These materials inform the creative component of this PhD, a novel entitled   How I Left The National Grid   (hereafter,   HILTNG).   Broadly, speaking, the results, discussion and conclusion for the PhD are as follows: The term ‘self-design’ builds upon the research of Stephen Greenblatt (1980).   Greenblatt used the term ‘self-fashioning’ to ex...