Adelle Stripe

Gordon Burn Prize

July 28, 2017 by adellestripe

I’m stoked to announce that Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile has been shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize. In fact, I’m as happy as Rita and Sue watching House of Fun on a pink leather sofa. Here’s a bit of info from New Writing North if you’re curious to find out more… “The Gordon Burn Prize shortlist continues to showcase some of the most interesting contemporary writing in its wide-ranging selection of titles. Six titles were selected by judges […]

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Book Launch

April 24, 2017 by adellestripe

Join us on Saturday July 1st at Bradford Literature Festival to celebrate the publication of my debut novel and discuss the life & work of Andrea Dunbar. The event features Michael Stewart, Claire MacDonald and George Costigan. Rita, Sue and Bob Too will be screened at NMM earlier in the day if you fancy a trip down memory lane. Look out for a new edition of the film (and making of documentary called Having a Ball) from the BFI in May. […]

Categories: Books, Film&TV, Uncategorized, Yorkshire • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Andrea Dunbar, Andrea Dunbar the Writer, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Bradford Literature Festival, Buttershaw, Claire MacDonald, George Costigan, Having a Ball, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Wrecking Ball Press

Return of Bradford’s Bad Lass

March 24, 2017 by adellestripe

My debut novel, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, has been published by Wrecking Ball Press. It is shortlisted for the 2017 Gordon Burn Prize and received the K Blundell Trust Award for Fiction. The first edition has a foil-press cover, pink endpapers, and is limited to 1000 copies. Wrecking Ball are the Black Sparrow Press of the North and I’m honoured to be joining the esteemed company of Ben Myers, Tony O’Neill, Dan Fante, and Helen Mort. Here’s the official […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Alan Clarke, Andrea Dunbar, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Bradford, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Wrecking Ball Press

Cock of the North

March 21, 2017 by adellestripe

Described by Resident Advisor as a track that ‘snatches you out of the water’, Cock of the North appears on Smagghe & Cross’s new album MA (Offen Music). It’s a short prose piece about Tadcaster in the nineties. Certainly not a track for Blue Mondays but I think it’s turned out well considering the subject matter… I recorded it at Air Edel in London last year with Ivan and Rupert. The original poem – Big Weekend – is taken from my poetry collection Dark Corners of the Land. I’ve had […]

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The Humber Star

February 22, 2017 by adellestripe

After six months of keeping this under my hat I can finally reveal that my new collaborative work with Halldór Smárason will be performed at John Grant’s North Atlantic Flux: Sounds From Smoky Bay programme as part of Hull City of Culture 2017. The Humber Star is a love story spoken in the distant voice of my great great great grandmother, Mary Mudd, and is the second part of Beyond the Silver Pit. The poem explores the bitter reality of working-class life for women […]

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Granite City

November 23, 2016 by adellestripe

I was writer-in-residence, archive digger and tipsy flâneuse during the winter months as part of Secret Cities in Aberdeen. Alongside photographer Andrew Brooks I traversed the dark corners of Granite City as part of Spectra Festival. We created a newspaper and an exhibition at Marischal College. Part of the residency involved a visit to an archaeological dig at St.Nicholas Kirk, where bones formed part of the old church’s foundations. We documented the witches’ ring, a scold’s bridle in Tolbooth, a whale’s eardrum, Houdini’s vanishing site, William Wallace’s dismembered […]

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Beyond the Silver Pit

November 29, 2015 by adellestripe

In late spring I started researching a new poetry project, inspired by a framed family tree in my grandmother’s hallway. She had spent 20 years of her life researching our family history in records offices, historical archives and libraries across East Yorkshire. I remember spending long afternoons with her, back in the 1980s, and often accompanied her as she flicked through reels of microfilm on big screens in darkened rooms. I was a bored child, whose task was to write […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Arts Council England, Beyond the Silver Pit, Curated Place, Dogger Bank, Enlighten Festival, Factory Records, Hull Daily Mail, Hull History Centre, Liverpool Street, Manchester Central Library, Matthew Gains Mudd, Nick Malbon, Russ Litten, Trevor Johnson

Resonators

November 25, 2015 by adellestripe

Scarlet Page’s new book Resonators is published this week. Over the last 24 months she has travelled the world on a personal quest to photograph the greatest guitar players in the world of rock. It’s an epic collection and includes some of the following legendary players: Albert Lee, Billy Corgan, Brian May, Chrissie Hynde, Dick Taylor, Graham Coxon, Hank Marvin, Jack White, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, John Squire, John Frusciante, Johnny Marr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jones, Nile Rodgers, Noel Gallagher, […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Albert Lee, Billy Corgan, Brian May, Chrissie Hynde, Dick Taylor, Graham Coxon, Hank Marvin, Jack White, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, John Frusciante, John Squire, Johnny Marr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jones, Nile Rodgers, Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Paul Stanley, Paul Weller, Peter Green, Phil Manzanera, Proud Galleries Camden, Resonators, Robert Fripp, Scarlet Page, Slash, Steve Jones, Teenage Cancer Trust, Wayne Kramer, Wilko Johnson

Latete Atoto 08/03

March 5, 2015 by adellestripe

On Sunday 8th March tune in to NTS Live for Latete Atoto. I’ll be chatting to DJ Chloe Raunet aka C.A.R. for a special International Women’s Day broadcast. We’ll play a few records, have a chat about Akiko Yosano & Andrea Dunbar ~ and maybe read some poems if we have time. And plenty of larking about of course… NTS is an online radio station based in Dalston. It hosts a diverse range of live radio shows with the tagline ‘Don’t Assume’ that sums up […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Akiko Yosano, Andrea Dunbar, C.A.R., Chloe Raunet, International Women's Day, Latete Atoto, NTS Live, NTS Radio

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