A New Poster!

Here at Annexe HQ we throw phrases back and forth to each other like a hyperactive air hockey game. Sometimes they stick and we bandy them about for the rest of the day saying things like “Hell, that should be on a poster!”
Rarely do we follow through… until TODAY!

In a complete flight of fancy, we bring you our (fairly nerdy) Waterworld poster.

It’s an A3 poster. blue risograph printing on cream Evercolour paper.

We’ve got 100 of them and we will happily send you one for the laughable price of £1 (plus 60p postage). If you’re interested (and I think you just might be) send us an email to annexemagazine@live.co.uk

 

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We get our stuff printed by the wonderful folk at Footprinters.

Welcome back!

A very happy new year to you and welcome back. The old year came to a close with the obligatory countdown of favourite books, top-selling authors and similar holiday-time listophilia. Predictions were made and resolutions formulated. Now to see it all come together, or fall by the wayside under our noses (giving the knew-it-all-along shake).

After a long and restorative holiday, the Annexe HQ is full again and bustling with treats for the Olympic year. And my, what treats we have in store.
In February we will be part of an exhibition at Five Years Gallery exploring a cross-section of indie publishing-based practices. We’ve got a series of writers’ trips coming up. (A bit like school trips, but with better packed lunch.) There’s a plethora of great writers and poets primed and ready to be unleashed upon you through the website. A couple of other projects are bubbling away for a little later in the year, but we wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise now, would we?

So, I’ll leave it there for now. Glad to see you again, hope you’re enjoying the new year so far and hope to see plenty of you here at Annexe as the year goes by.

 

Nick,
Annexe editor.

One Pun Too Many

With the release of the Et Al Podcast, we thought it only fair to give you some extra bits and bobs too. It’s Christmas after all. So, at the Annexe event, we ran a little competition in which the audience had to fashion some first-class puns. The topic was books cross with bands. We weren’t surprised to see that the Annexe audience is comprised of a lot of witty and erudite folk. We had so many brilliant responses it was hard to choose between them, but we decided on our top four:

Fantastic Mr. Fleet Foxes
Girl with a Pearl Jam Earring
Northanger Abba

The top prize went to:
All Quiet on the Westlife Front

Since that night the entries have resurfaced every so often and without fail every soul in Annexe HQ falls into fits of laughter. We realised it was cruel to keep all this mirth to ourselves so, in no particular order, after the jump are ALL the book/band puns from Annexe Presents…Et Al.

Socialising is an important part of a healthy life

Apologies! We’ve been rather quiet as of late. This is because we took a brief sojourn up to Edinburgh to relax, recharge and see some fantastic theatre during the Fringe Festival. We’re back now and there’s much to tell. Our typewriters have not stopped clacking since our return so stay tuned for a plethora of literary gifts.

Also, we’ve clambered through the forests of the internet to set up camp over on facebook. It’ll serve mainly as a heads-up to our more social networking based readers, but also there’ll be a few tidbits that we don’t find a place for on here. Go have a look. If you like us, we’d like it if you liked us.

We’ve also got our Twitter up and running. Have a look to see our opinions on this that and the other. @AnnexeMag

Annexe Magazine is Born!

After much deliberation, planning and general faffing, Annexe Magazine is taking shape.
“But what is Annexe?” I hear you ask.

Annexe is a love letter to the written word. Language is a constantly evolving creature and as it mutates, so does our desire to play with it; to test its boundaries by pushing them out as far as they’ll possibly go. We search for the work that moves us, from yesterday and tomorrow, and use it to shape a world of stories, living fiction, a new culture.

Welcome one and all to Annexe.

NickM,
Annexe Editor