Ceris Aston

So we had the launch of Sartorial, which was...

Fantastic.

It was a great evening, partly because Keris and I were in the same place and we always cherish these opportunities.

And we started off with a few readings from Scotland based writers in the issue.

And then we had clothes swaps.

So we encouraged everyone to come and bring along clothes.

They would donate to charity.

And then you could take away other clothes.

That was really good.

I got rid of clothes.

I got now a whole load more.

so we still have a boot full of clothes which are on route to the charity shop unless any of you want them so close up after the podcast absolutely but you were also involved in a great event for Chateaurier I have actually been involved in a few events this year by virtue of being the Scotland based member of the team there was a new writing showcase which from Glasgow to Saturn and Octavius was

and Far Off Places did in Glasgow and it was lovely just an opportunity to meet writers from the different magazines and we discovered that we had writers in common which is a really great moment

They're great, aren't they?

And yeah, it's quite nice to feel part of a writing and editing publishing community, actually, and I think that was really nice for that.

I think that there was also a lovely moment in the publicity for that, that someone

who had heard of the event, did a blog post about events coming up, and they mentioned the magazine Showcase and were like, these are the three hottest literary magazines, or three of the hottest literary magazines out there, and Scotland's next top things are coming out of these

And then more recently we were invited by Vox Edinburgh to collaborate on an event, an exhibition type event that they were doing to raise money for Kiva, which gives loans to people in different countries who sort of need a loan for a small thing without...

huge interest rates and things like that.

It's a really great initiative and so Vox had this event which was text and textiles was the theme and we knew Nicole who's one of our writers and also