Creative Connections

Fellow Viking Lovers:

• Jorvik Viking Festival 2010 highlights - http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/festival2010-Intro.htm – highlights of events held at the Jorvik Viking Festival held annually in York every half term in February.
• Dismorphia – Viking York – a great little gang of people currently building a free virtual version of Jorvik. Do sign up to their Viking Chronicle newsletter where you can read good mini sagas, enter competitions for cool prizes and find out about the latest history events. – http://www.dismorphia.com/index.php
• Jorvik Vikingr Re-enactment Group  – a fantastic band of oathsworn brothers and sisters whose main goal in life is to show how ferocious the Vikings were in battle as show they were more than raiders. Saw them at the Jorvik Viking Festival 2010 and they were superb. – http://jorvik.eyepreview.co.uk/

Writing Wonders:

• Author Kate Moss gives her 5 Top Tips for writing a Novel – BBC - a fantastic short clip full of godo advice and encouragement for any aspiring writer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8430705.stm
• Grist Anthology Of New Writing – annual publication and competition – Grist is the brain child of my old writing tutor at Huddersfield University, Michael Stewart. It’s goal is to promote latest emerging talent alongside already well established authors and poets. Well worth entering the competition held every year. http://www.hud.ac.uk/mh/english/grist/publications.htm

Crafty Creations:

• Faerie-ality – House of Ellwand – a guy with a truly magical touch and amazing skill in making beautiful outfits, shoes and hats all from tiny things of nature for the wee folk that live in the trees, bushes and flowers. http://www.hud.ac.uk/mh/english/grist/publications.htm

Awesome Authors:

• Joanne Harris – Author of Runemarks – http://joanne-harris.co.uk/
• Tim Severin – Author of the Viking Trilogy - http://www.timseverin.net/
• Robert Low – Author of the Oathsworn Series - http://www.robert-low.com/
• Bernard Cornwell – Author of the Saxon Stories Series - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm
• Giles Kristian – Author of the Raven Series - http://www.gileskristian.com/index.php
• Chris D’Lacey – Author of the Dragon Series - http://www.icefire.co.uk/welcome.html
• C. C. Humphreys – Author of ‘Vlad: The Last Confession’ - http://cchumphreys.com/
• Cressida Cowell – Author of the Hiccup Collection - http://www.cressidacowell.co.uk/index.asp