behind the scenes
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The Mystery of the Missing Poem
If you were an eagle-eyed reader of Issue 6, you may have noticed an error on page 8: A poem has been attributed to Cody A. Conklin but the poem fails to appear in the magazine! Well done if you were one of the few who recognised the printing mistake. We would love to blame…
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The Design of Firewords – Case Study #2
Christina Chung & the cover artwork for Issue 5In this feature, we look at the design of Firewords more closely. This series of blogs will allow us to meet some of the creative talent we’ve worked with and find out why they made the design decisions that they did.All the visuals and illustrations in the…
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The Design of Firewords – Case Study #2
Christina Chung & the cover artwork for Issue 5In this feature, we look at the design of Firewords more closely. This series of blogs will allow us to meet some of the creative talent we’ve worked with and find out why they made the design decisions that they did.All the visuals and illustrations in the…
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The Design of Firewords – Case Study #2
Christina Chung & the cover artwork for Issue 5In this feature, we look at the design of Firewords more closely. This series of blogs will allow us to meet some of the creative talent we’ve worked with and find out why they made the design decisions that they did.All the visuals and illustrations in the…
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Meet the Team: Jen, Editor
In this series of blogs we meet the team who bring you Firewords. Next up is our second in command, Jen. (Interview by Dan Burgess, Editor.)Tell us a bit about yourself.Well, I’m an editor and English teacher, but I find my life outside of work is far more important. This involves many distinct areas of…
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Meet the Team: Jen, Editor
In this series of blogs we meet the team who bring you Firewords. Next up is our second in command, Jen. (Interview by Dan Burgess, Editor.)Tell us a bit about yourself.Well, I’m an editor and English teacher, but I find my life outside of work is far more important. This involves many distinct areas of…
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Meet the Team: Mike Wolfson, Assistant Editor
In this series of blogs we meet the team who bring you Firewords. Next up is our Assistant Editor, Mike. (Interview by Dan Burgess, Editor.)Tell us a bit about yourself.Eek, did I say I wanted to do this interview? Ha ha – I’m one of those private individuals that hates talking about themselves. That’s partly…
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Meet the Team: Dan, Editor
In this series of blogs we meet the team who bring you Firewords, starting with our Editor-in-Chief, Dan Burgess. (Interview by Jen Scott, Associate Editor.)Dan Burgess is a name many of you will be familiar with. Although I work with him daily, he can be a fairly reticent character (sorry, Dan). Now this is my…
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Meet the Team: Dan, Editor
In this series of blogs we meet the team who bring you Firewords, starting with our Editor-in-Chief, Dan Burgess. (Interview by Jen Scott, Associate Editor.)Dan Burgess is a name many of you will be familiar with. Although I work with him daily, he can be a fairly reticent character (sorry, Dan). Now this is my…
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About the team behind Firewords
It’s only taken us a year, but we finally have an About page. Come and meet the people behind Firewords! We also have interviews with the team coming to the blog soon. What would you like to ask us?