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Welcome to our very special edition Homecoming. Following the success of a previous collaboration between RAW and IMAG, a special edition of the magazine was commissioned by the museum to tie in with the autumn exhibition “Leaving Home”. The magazine complements this, featuring stories, an essay and a poem by local writers – and some from further afield – all on the theme of ‘Homecoming’. An essay by Professor James Hunter, director of the UHI Centre for History, puts the Year of Homecoming in context, explaining the historical background and illustrating it with stories of Australian soldiers visiting the Highlands after the First World War; Highland Games in California; and then looks forward to the Homecoming Conference to be held in Inverness in October. Prof. Hunter said, “It’s really good to see something like this being done to draw the attention of people in the Highlands to the fact that, right around the world, there are so many folk who feel themselves to have some connection with, and stake in, our area.” A specially-commissioned, brand-new story by award-winning Lewis author Kevin Macneil looks at a modern island homecoming – his dystopian view of Scotland and the Hebrides is familiar to many readers from his controversial novel “The Stornoway Way”. The “Leaving Home” exhibition runs from 19th September until 31st October at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness.
Jennifer Thomson (editor).
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Earlier last year Inverness Musuem and Art Gallery (iMAG) got in touch with RAW with a very interesting idea. The result was Reflections, a new exhibition featuring nine portraits of Highland women with nine commissioned stories inspired and based around the works of art. The exhibition launched on the 1st of November 2008 and received a lot of media attention and good will from many people. We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who has supported this project. http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/919935
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Fiona Mackenzie, one of the authors invited to contribute a piece to this project has turned her work into a truely amazing song and is available for download:
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Random Acts of Writing is a Highlands-based writing magazine, and we are keen to publish writers who are either based in the north of Scotland, or whose work is relevant to the area. We have a commitment to new writing and unpublished writers. We welcome all submissions, which you can submit either by email or post. For full submission guidelines please follow this link and get some handy hints on what we are looking for and what's in it for you... (more) If you send your writing by post, please use single-spacing and both sides of the page - this will help conserve the trees. If you want us to return a postal submission, or you would like some feedback on it, please enclose a S.A.E. or an email address. RAW SUBMISSIONS, 11 Alexander Place, Inverness IV3 5BX
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Homecoming: Worldwide.....£4.00 (including postage)
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