Helen Askew is a graphic designer and illsutrator with a Fine Arts Diploma from the Cumbria Institute of the Arts, and currently working towards a BA in Graphic Design at the University of Northumbria. Helen previously illustrated Read This Issue 6, which featured pictures of her favourite subject - bones and skeletons. Helen works with paint, inks, photography and Photoshop to create her images - she also likes to work with collage.
You can see more of Helen's artwork here.

Read This Events

After the excitement of The Read This 1st Birthday Party, we're having a rest - so there are no forthcoming RT events scheduled for December, sadly! However, feel free to get in touch via submissions@
readthismagazine.co.uk
if you want to know what we'll be up to in the new year!

In the print issue...

Read This 12 has hit the shelves - it's our bumper birthday issue and it looks beautiful. There's poetry from three of our current web contributors and a second story from this month's web-featured prose writer Lewis Young. There's also poetry from Brenna Tripodi, Ahimsa Bodhran and Bethan Townsend.. all illustrated by Helen Askew. Get your hands on a copy!

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Visit our sister-site, OneNightStanzas.com
for another opportunity to be published!

If your work is featured in the Read This print magazine, you will receive a free copy of the magazine by post.

If you're in Edinburgh or the surrounding area:
Copies of the present issue are available from a variety of stockists around Edinburgh:
Word Power Books, West Nicolson Street
The Forest, Bristo Place
Analogue Books, Victoria Street
The Blind Poet, West Nicolson Street
Various places around the University of Edinburgh, including Central Library and the David Hume Tower, George Square; and Teviot, Bristo Square.

If you're from elsewhere: you will soon be able to get copies of the magazine online, free of charge, with only the p&p to pay!
In the meantime, you can SUBSCRIBE, DONATE, or have copies sent to you BY POST (the current issue or any of our back-issues). Just email us at submissions@readthismagazine.co.uk, with 'Subscribe,' 'Donate' or 'Post copies' (or the like) in the subject line!

In the meantime, you can send us a submission of your work, to Read This or to our sister-site, One Night Stanzas.

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