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STOP PRESS: Manifesto Revised
by Sara Lloyd, Digital Director, Pan MacMillan
What does the digital world look like for publishers - one year on?

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January 2010 Feature: Manifesto Revisited

As part of its digital policy development process, HI~Arts commissioned SARA LLOYD to revisit her article A Book Publisher's Manfiesto For The Twenty First Century to look at how the digital landscape for publishers, authors and readers has shifted.

December 2009 Feature: A Question of Balance

In this article, specially commissioned by HI~Arts, copyright specialist with Beachcroft LLP, ROBIN FRY, examines some fundamental issues and implications for copyright in the DE Bill.

December 2009 Feature: A Bulletin from Stromness 2

IAN STEPHEN reports on the final stages of his story-telling residence in Orkney.

LATEST NEWS | MORE WRITING NEWS

Scholarship Available to Gaelic Speakers for Television Fiction Writing Masters Course (05 Feb 2010)

The Advanced Poetry Seminar (03 Feb 2010)

HiEx Comic Convention comes to Eden Court (01 Feb 2010)

£1 million Amb:IT:ous start for Arts Organisations (28 Jan 2010)

UK Young Artists 2010 - Call for submissions going live soon (28 Jan 2010)

LATEST REVIEWS | MORE REVIEWS

SCOTLAND’S GLOBAL IMPACT: HOW ONE SMALL NATION CHANGED THE WORLD! (Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, 22–24 October 2009)
THE FLIGHT OF THE ARCTIC TERN (Caol Community Centre, Caol,19 October 2009)
I TAKE YOUR HAND IN MINE (OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 1 October 2009)

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October 2006 Feature: Shetland Book Festival
ALISTAIR PEEBLES reflects on the recent changes in the arts infrastructure in Shetland, and looks back on last month’s very successful book event.

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