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| West Coast Eisteddfod Friday Saturday Sunday
(If you wish to enter live events at the Barnsdall Art Park on Sat 24th Sept go here ) Online Competition GroupsCompete for cash prizes and acclaim in this years West Coast Eisteddfod online competitions. Visit the individual submission groups below for more details. Read more about our 2011 online competition judges here  West Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Submission GroupYou may submit your entries in Welsh, English or Spanish. You may submit up to five entries in each language category. The three language categories will be judged separately and there will be a prize for each. Accompanying graphics are not permitted. There is a US150 dollars (approx 100GBP ) prize for the winners in each category. The final submission date is September 15th 2011. Judges to be announced.  West Coast Eisteddfod Short Story Submission GroupThe short story competition starts today. The theme of your story need not reference Wales in any way. You may submit your entry in either Welsh or English. Basically you will need to write a short story between 1000 and 3000 words in length and submit it in accordance with the rules for site members or non-site members outlined below. Accompanying graphics are not permitted. There is a US150 dollars (approximately 100GBP ) prize for the winner. and US100 dollars ( approximately 65GBP ) for the runner up. The final submission date is Sept 15th 2011 and the winners will be announced at the Eisteddfod ( October 2010 ). We are immensely proud and pleased to announce that for the third consecutive year, author Lloyd Jones will judge the entries in the West Coast Eisteddfod Short Story competition. Lloyd is the author of two novels, 'Mr Vogel' and 'Mr Cassini' and a collection of short stories - 'My First Colouring Book' . He has also written the extremely popular Welsh language novel - 'Y Dwr' . You may submit up to four entries. |
Not only does Mickey Rourke intend to learn Welsh for his film portrayal of Gareth Thomas but it is rumored that he will even remove his front teeth in the interests of accuracy.
Read more here:- Rourke to play Gareth Thomas in movie
Who is Iolo Multnomah? What's in his pipe? What is the mysterious "Pine Egg"? Read on here http://iolomultnomah.blogspot.com and all will become unclear.
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The House In Wales is Richard Rhys Jones second book; his first The Division of the Damned was a novel about Nazi Vampires in World War Two. Recently released in paperback we learn that the book was written partly in response to the box office success of recent blockbuster ''haunted house'' movies , ''American Horror Story'' and ''The Woman In Black''.
The plot revolves around an evacuee who has been relocated to a lonely vicarage in the hills above Colwyn Bay after his mother is killed in a wartime bombing raid on Liverpool. Daniel Kelly soon realises that all is not well at his new home and that the ''Vicar'', his sinister housekeeper Miss Trimble and the even more sinister Irish Wolfhound Astaroth have plans for him. In the course of avoiding a grisly fate at their hands Daniel is visited by a succession of ghosts, including his dead mother as he feverishly strives to piece together the true nature of the house''s dark secret.
The writing is taut and well paced and the atmosphere is sinister and threatening throughout. The depraved and manipulative relationship between the ''Reverend'' and Miss Trimble is particularly well described. Neither is a sympathetic character and it becomes apparent that they deserve both each other and their ultimate common fate.
This is a book that will recommend itself to all dedicated horror fans. With lashings of delicious depravity and gratuitous gore it is not for the squeamish but if you are looking for a new take on the haunted house/satanic rituals meme then this book is definitely for you. Personally I hope there is a sequel and I am looking forward to whatever comes next from the pen of Richard Rhys Jones. If this was Amazon I''d give it 5 stars.
I should add that we are delighted to announce that Richard Rhys Jones has contributed an original short story to our bi-annual anthology of Welsh fiction - eto . The story, The Left Eye will appear in eto issue two later this month.
THREE BLIND WOLVES/ SHY AND THE FIGHT/ THE ADELINES/ BROTHERS - DEMPSEYS FOUR BARS - 23RD OF MAY!
By Ceri Shaw, 2013-03-25
Fresh from supporting Frightened Rabbit, Glasgow's Three Blind Wolves will be playing a show for god is in the tv in Cardiff at Dempseys bar on Thursday the 23rd of May as part of their debut album 'SingHallelujahfor the Old Machine' tour!
23rd of May god is in the tv presents Three Blind Wolves with support from multi legged North Walian orch-pop of Shy and the Fight plus the ace female fronted pop of Swansea's The Adelines and opening with Cardiff youngsters Brothers with their 60 inspired sound@ Dempseys Four Bars . More news to follow you can buy tickets in advance here: We Got Tickets
Stadium sized melodies and four-part harmonies without diving headlong into a pool full of cliches MOJO Magazine
http://threeblindwolves.bandcamp.com/
Having been compared to My Morning Jacket and Neil Young, their recent single 'In Here Somewhere' ( ) features Three Blind Wolves warm Americana-tinged sound, yet with a chilling core. Previously released single Parade ( ), which came out back in October 2012 saw the band rise to great success earning them a great amount of respect from ourselves amongst other tastemakers!They are on tour during May in support of the release of their debut album'SingHallelujahfor the Old Machine'!
The band all met playing shows around the Glasgow music scene, Ross Clark (guitar, vocals) was a solo artist and met David Cleary (lead guitar, backing vocals, mandolin) and Kevin Mackay (bass, backing vocals) through their first group Rainbowsheep. They played their first show together in a Japanese noodle bar and their friendship grew from there, playing in clubs, bars, parks and various flats around Glasgow. When it the time came for the friends to form the band properly, Davie and Kevins a long time friend, Fearghas Lyon (drums), joined and they immediately bonded over jamming to Cream and Daft Punk covers; Three Blind Wolves were born and the four boys havent looked back since.
After releasing their mini album Sound of the Storm in 2011, the band quickly gained support from the press. Scotlands answer to Time Out, The List Magazine, hailed them as a countrified Modest Mouse whilst The Skinny Magazine said their debut recalled genre-defining artists like Bright Eyes and more recently Bon Iver. MOJO Magazine also featured their track Emily Rose on a covermount CD and Rolling Stone said they were the Scottish answer to the Decemberists.
Shy and the Fight:
"They're a multi-legged, multi-instrumented scramble up the precipitous slopes of 20-something hearts, driven along by melodies that'd tan your backside if you dared to flag. There's nothing to buck trends here" -Adam Thomas Walton BBC Wales http://shyandthefight.bandcamp.com/
The Adelines
The Adelines are a guitar-driven quartet comprising Jennie Morris on vocals and guitar, Anton Dodwell on guitar, Eddie Russell on bass and Ray Thomas on drums. Formed in 2011 and named after their next door neighbour's cat, they cut their teeth playing house parties in Swansea and pricked ears with their tom-boyish vocals, jangly reverb-guitars and warped pop sensibilities.
http://www.theadelines.com/
Brothers
Four pieces of psychedelic rock who have been brought together due their love of 60s rock and roll, psychedelia, harmonies and melodies. Brothers consist of 3 members; Joel Hurst (guitar and vocals), Joe Conaghan (bass and vocals), Calum Conaghan (guitar, synth, vocals) and Ethan Hurst (drums and percussion). They aim to capture and reinvent 60s and 90s style rock and roll with more complex structures and experimental aspects. https://soundcloud.com/brothers-band-cardif
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Promote Your Book, Book Launch, Signing On The Eto Website
The new eto magazine exists to promote Welsh and Welsh diaspora writers and the website exists to promote the magazine. As an extension of that role we thought why not equip the website to promote authors directly?
Here's how it works:-
- If you have a book, book launch or signing that you wish to promote via social channels just head over to the eto website http://etomagazine.com and look for the 'Add Community News' feature in the right hand column on any page of the site.
- Fill in the title, link, description and thumbnail fields. Don't worry too much about thge tags field but please do incorporate a graphic of your book cover, yourself or whatever is appropriate. Basically you are composing a short blog post. When you finish click 'submit' and you're done.
- We will look at your post and if we like it we will post it on the eto site. If we like it a lot we will also circulate via our social accounts ( FB, Twitter, G+, AC etc ).
- Needless to say this offer applies to Welsh and Welsh diaspora authors only. If you are a viagra salesman please dont waste your time ( or ours ) ALL entries are moderated and approved prior to publication
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The Rewards Tab - Americymru Has added Punchtab - Collect Points and Claim Your Prize by Visiting, Commenting and Sharing
OK so you'll have to visit more than once but the PunchTab program is designed to reward 'loyalty' You may have noticed the new 'Rewards tab' on the right hand side of the page. If you are on Facebook click on the tab and like the app to start collecting points for your loyalty reward.
Points can be earned by logging into Facebook and performing the following actions:
1. Visiting PunchTab-enabled sites every day.
2. Clicking on Facebook Like buttons on PunchTab-enabled sites every day.
3. Leaving comments on PunchTab-enabled sites every day.
Sometimes a site-owner will create custom actions for you to perform; keep an eye for these valuable earning opportunities.
When you 'like' the app your rewards catalog will contain the following rewards.
1/ A $15 amazon gift card for 10000 points.
2/ A $5 iTunes gift card for 5000 points.
3/ A $3 Starbucks gift card for 3000 points.
When you earn enough points to redeem one of the above prizes PunchTab and its partners will take care of reward fulfillment.
This is what the catalog looks like:
Please remember to use the rewards tab on the right hand side of the page OR the 'Like' button with the red ribbon next to it ( at the bottom of blog pages, photo pages etc ) and NOT the FB 'Like' button in the right hand column ( top ) to accumulate your points.
As far as we know this program will be expanded in the near future to include rewards for Twitter and Google+1 users.
Latest Feature Announcement from Ning
Since adding the Like Feature in February, we've studied closely how Ning Creators are using it on their social sites. What we've found is exciting: 12,000 Ning Creators have already replaced the Favorite and Rate features with the Like Button, and they are seeing great results. Here's how this change has increased member engagement:
Engagement = Number of times content is Rated, Favorited, or Liked
We're excited to report that later today, we will be taking the Like Feature out of Ning Labs.
We've spent the last several weeks making a series of improvements, including:
- Like buttons for more features (Photos, Videos, Blogs, Events, Discussions, Groups, Pages, Profiles)
- Feature-by-feature control to enable/disable a Like button
- A revamped My Likes page that shows member Likes month-to-month over time.
