SC Whiddon is a NY based illustrator and children’s book writer. This is her contribution to our Love and Heartbreak open call. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good comedy? Sofia: I think a story that is relatable to people and honest. Also, witty dialogue helps. PenTales: Tell us […]
Sean Conaty is a cinematographer and photographer based in Los Angeles. He still shoots on his father’s Nikon and singlehandedly keeps Ilford in business. Check out his work at www.sean.conaty.net. He contributed this to our Love and Heartbreak open call. PenTales: What are the ingredients of a good photograph? Sean: […]
PenTales co-founder Saskia Miller chats with IP lawyer and PenTales Panama organizer Maria Arrocha about the current creative boom in her country.
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT The maison rouge was neither a house nor red. It was a hotel painted in a powdery, pastel green that rubbed off like chalk on your fingers. And the soot from chimneys and the exhaust of the endless stream of cars that choked the narrow Rue […]
topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT As shared at a PenTales event themed “Crime and Punishment” I’d love to start by saying it was an extraordinary day, but it wasn’t. It really was just another day. I’d got up, had breakfast, kissed my fiancé goodbye, taken the tube to work, […]
topic: DREAMS medium: TEXT So, great expectations. I’m not a particularly imaginative person, so in pouring forth my thoughts on these two words for the next five minutes, I’ll take inspiration from a) Paris, b) my love life or lack thereof, and c) my job, which together probably account for […]
I remember you singing to yourself in the kitchen, notes over cut fruit, pretending yourself some one else in need of amusement. Boredom was dangerous for you there. The fruit was not fresh, it was frozen. Its seeds were pale things that fit under your thumbnail. You couldn’t throw away […]
