12 September 2012
Online arts review magazine launched
A new online arts review magazine will be launched by the English programme at the University of Dundee next week.
Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA) is the brainchild of Dr Gail Low, and aims to contribute to the local arts scene while giving students writing and publishing opportunities that they might not have had otherwise.
The website www.dura-dundee.org.uk will go live during the welcome party for English postgraduate students at Baxter Suite 1.36 from 4pm on Wednesday, 19th September. The students and staff members responsible for writing and editing the inaugural edition of DURA will be at the launch event, which will also have artwork featuring on the magazine website on display.
DURA will review fiction, poetry, exhibitions, film and theatre. Interviews with writers, publishers and artists will also feature, as will opinion pieces and listing for upcoming arts events locally.
"The idea for Dundee Review of the Arts emerged from a conversation that took place at a seminar last year," explained Dr Low. "After listening to publishers, writers, book promoters, readers, educationalists, arts council staff and librarians talk knowledgeably and earnestly about what was needed to create a thriving ecosystem for culture, I asked what we should be doing at universities.
"DURA is one response to the exhortation to keep reading, teaching and talking about the arts. DURA is keen to promote the diversity of artists and art forms, and to support independent film and independent publishing as well as local and regional arts and institutions."
The first issue of DURA will contain reviews of summer exhibitions at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee Rep’s "The Mill Lavvies", films that have appeared at DCA, poetry from flipped eye publishing, Salmon Press and Birlinn, and fiction from Polygon, Peepal Tree Press and Faber. An interview with well-known Egyptian writer, Ahdaf Soueif also features.
Contributors to DURA will not be drawn exclusively from the English programme, and any students from the University with a passion for the arts and a desire to give reviewing a go should email submissions@dura-dundee.org.uk
For media enquiries contact:
Grant Hill
Press Officer
University of Dundee
Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN
TEL: 01382 384768
E-MAIL: g.hill@dundee.ac.uk
MOBILE: 07854 953277 |
