Vane Women is a writers' collective from the North of England - we run a Press and workshops and are performers on the stage as well as on the page. We take our name from Darlington Arts Centre's address at Vane Terrace, which is our base camp. Vain but not plain . . . and we show off our earrings as well as our love of words. Join us - enjoy our pages of poems, prose and puns. You might find something in the pun button to take home!

	Articulate Laureates
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	My Art belongs to Dada
	Northern Grit
	Changing Voices
	What's happening in Colonel Noah's back garden?
	Tea and Puns
	Supersonnets
	Storytime
	Random
	Postcards
	North and South
	Press for The Press
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BREAKING NEWS! Two new books from Vane Women Press were launched at Durham Book Festival.

Launched Durham Book Festival 2008. See Lowdown for details. Press for the Press to order. COLLECTING STONES "The land around Harehope Quarry is bleak and beautiful, but the lives of the miners and their families could be brutal and short. Collecting Stones enters the spirit of both, with poems and stories that describe the rugged countryside and individual characters, written by about 20 contributors. Pen and ink illustrations by the Darlington artist and cartoonist John Longstaff, who has family links with the area, are scattered throughout the pages, offering a visual description of the nature of the place to match the verbal text and enhancing the book's appeal." Pru Farrier, Darlington and Stocktime Times

Launched Durham Book Festival 2008. See Lowdown for details. Press for the Press to order. STRIPPING THE BLACKTHORN "...potent pieces...compelling metaphor...sharp in observation, ranging from the celebratory beauty of 'Autumn', redolent of the sights, sounds, smells of the season, to the darker poem used as the title for the book. In this, there is the knowledge that thorns are as much a part of life as fruit, seemingly beyond range, worth striving to reach." Pru Farrier, Darlington and Stocktime Times