Ceris Aston

Edits Antizine, which is... It's a sort of sister magazine.

Yeah, it's a similar type of magazine, and they invited us to collaborate with them, and so we had so much scope for creativity, and so we worked on art projects.

So the theme was textiles for the evening.

Text and textiles, and so we just explored subtext through text and things like that, and so we had...

clothes hanging up with the labels as though they were in a second-hand shop and we had the labels with like fragments from the poems or prose pieces we had performances of a couple of far-off places pieces which were just so powerful and that was one as well did you use the one with the dress we have a short story about a girl making a dress for high school prom and it's partly

sort of the the steps of cutting out the material and putting it all together and what goes wrong and partly her hopes about this prom and the guy that she'd like to meet there and you actually had someone sort of cutting out the fabric didn't you?

Yeah yeah so someone was making the dress another person was sort of acting in the role of

the girl going through her emotions and then someone else was reading out the story.

And it just all came together beautifully and it was really nice to be involved in the collaboration with artists, with performers, with musicians.

I think the two different events were quite interesting actually.

One made us feel as though we were part of the literature community and then

The other one sort of made us feel we're part of a creative, artistic thing as well.

We, I mean ideally, we've been talking about merchandise actually, we want to be paraphrased to that.

I'm desperate to do merchandise and it's partly because I would love to have bigger print runs.

One of the ways of doing that potentially, it could be to use some of the words and some of the gorgeous illustrations as well from our pieces and make like tote bags, beautiful, beautiful tote bags and things like that because I would so happily carry one of those around.

I think what we would like would be... We would like to have money.

If you're listening to this, give us money.

No, that sounds awful.

But we would like to be able to do print runs, and they can continue to be small, but just so we can actually send our authors a printed copy in the post.

And we would love to be able to pay our authors and our illustrators.