Oooh. Check out our beautiful poster for the next Telltales by the design wizards at Venn Creative. It’s revolutionary…

Hope to see you all at the Rum Bar, Falmouth on 31 January for what looks set to be another delicious slice of word pie, Telltales style.

Happy New Year! Hope you had a great break.

As 2012 gets into full swing, so Telltales is gearing up to return. We’ll be taking over The Rum Bar, Falmouth (TR11 3PN) on Tuesday 31 January for our first night of talk and tales this year.

Which means, we’re currently on the lookout for writers keen to read out at the event.

The theme for this month is Revolution. Whether it’s change, turnarounds, power struggles, or spinning emotions, you can interpret the word however you like. Submit your work, loosely based on the theme, using the form on the right by the 22 January and we’ll let you know on the 23 January if you’ve been programmed.

Check back on the website over the next few weeks for more details. We look forward to reading your stuff!

After a roaringly successful launch party last week we are very proud to say that The Parabola Project is now available to buy and it looks beautiful.

Featuring the talents of 19 writers from across the writing spectrum, as well as stunning illustrations and photographs from some incredible imagemakers, it’s bigger and better than issue I, just as we had hoped.

So far the response both to how it looks and how it reads has been brilliant and we look forward to hearing from more of you once you’ve had a chance to pick up a copy.

You can buy Parabola online now, or from stockists across Cornwall, as well as from our newest stockist Magma, in London.

It’s just £6 and every penny we make will go straight back into the publishing pot to be able to do it all again for issue III.

You’ve all been amazing so far with your support of Parabola and the creative writing scene, but now we really need you.

The more copies we sell the more likely it is we will be able to showcase even more writers and illustrators next year, so please do buy a copy and spread the word. It makes a great Christmas present!

For more information on stockists, featured writers and of course to buy a copy, as well as illustrated postcards and posters check out www.parabolaproject.com

Just a quick post to say we’re really excited about the launch of The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening. It’s so close now, Zander from Venn has been press passing all week, and the pages are looking truly beautiful. We’re expecting to take delivery of the first batch of copies on Monday and then it’s an evening of bellybanding and numbering ready for the launch party and distribution the next day.

And all the plans for the launch are all in place now too, including testing my Grandpa’s old microphone – it’s in full working order and ready to go so our readers, who include Telltales c0-founder and recently signed author Chelsey Flood, Mac Dunlop, Nick Jarvis, Chris Brown and Fi Read, will have a vintage mic to use, should they want it.

We really hope to see you at the Rum Bar, on 29 November, from 7.30pm – it’s going to be a great evening and of course your first chance to get your hands on a copy of the amazing Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening! Don’t miss it…

After months of campaigning, reading, editing, commissioning, designing and proofing, The Parabola Project Issue II will be hitting the shelves this November with a launch party to remember.

Taking over The Rum Bar, Falmouth on Tuesday 29 November, Telltales will be celebrating the launch of The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening with an entertaining night of word wizardry, showcasing the rich creative talent featured in the new issue and beyond.

With readings from recently signed author Chelsey Flood, captivating travel writer Chris Brown and satirical performance poet Nick Jarvis on the cards, as well as free Winter Pimms, mince pies and an opportunity to look through the proofs and plates that all fed into the production process,  it promises to be great evening. Not to mention the fact that it’ll be your first chance to get your hands on a copy of The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening.

For those of you that don’t know, The Parabola Project is an independently published creative writing anthology that showcases creative talent from Cornwall and beyond. Available online in Waterstones Truro and from independent bookshops across Cornwall, it costs £6 – with all profits going back into the production pot for issue III.

So what are you waiting for? Get out your diary and write this in in permanent pen -  “29 November, 7.30pm @ The Rum Bar, Falmouth, celebrating the launch of The Parabola Project and picking up my copy, can’t wait to see it…” or something similar.

Today, after three months of hard graft our Wefund campaign came to an end. And the great news is that 58 of you pledged your support for Parabola and have contributed your own money to help us make Issue II even bigger and better.

Thanks to you we have managed to raise £2120 to put into the production pot, and combined with sales from Issue I, that money means we can showcase 20 writers and imagemakers in Issue II; a beautiful little publication that will take their talent to whole new audiences.

And not only will it be fatter, we’re going to print more copies get stockists onboard from further a field and generally try our hardest to raise Parabola’s profile and get more people reading it.

It seems that when if comes to Issue II, Quickening couldn’t have been a more apporopriate theme…

Great news! The Eden Project have just pledged £500 to support our Parabola Project Wefund campaign, helping to make The Parabola Project issue II even bigger and better. With just one week to go, it’s put us back in the game – at 78% of our target total.

So  now we’re gearing up for the final push – please, please if you haven’t already, log on, watch our little film and dig deep.

If you’ve already been kind enough to pledge, please spread the word by tweeting, facebooking and shouting it down the street. We want to do everything we can to try and reach our target and secure the £2000 we need to boost our production budget and showcase the work of more talented writers and imagemakers in the next issue; which is coming on very nicely by the way.

More news on that soon. For now fingers crossed you can help make us happen and we’ll let you know the score this time next week…

www.wefund.com/project/help-get-parabola-project-issue-ii-print