Pretty, Happy Pictures

This week’s felt different. Good different. For the past three weeks I’ve been working on a project with Athleston Primary School where I’ve been a face on a big screen. On Tuesday I was actually there (and, as I said, I thought I’d have been taller in real life too). And it was wonderful – not only to be back among people, but because these young people are brilliant – smart, funny, and bursting with exciting ideas – and that’s exactly what writers should be. I was extremely pleased to have been and heard so many great pieces of work and even more pleased to have left seriously impressed.

It was pretty cool to see Love, Love magazine sharing a picture of Thurston Moore (the one who I watched on the small TV in my bedroom when I was 14, as Kurt Cobain told him, backstage and all teary, he was his hero) signing copies of issue 2 – one of his poems is on the page facing my story. There are a few left…

And then there’s this – I didn’t have much free time at all, but I did manage a quick few minutes in Sheffield city centre where I stood and admired the brilliant poems displayed there that the Children in Care Council wrote with me and Dominic Heslop.

I’ll bet you didn’t expect to find Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Sheffield, and primary schools all in one post now, did you? But they are – and what’s lovely is that they’re all linked by making good art.

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Nik Perring is a short story writer, author, teacher of writing, and editor from the UK. His stories have been published widely all over the world. His books include the widely celebrated Not So Perfect (Roastbooks 2010), A Book of Beautiful Words; and Beautiful Trees; and he co-wrote Freaks!(TFP/HarperCollins, 2012).

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