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Breaking News 2020 |
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How does Britain look in 2020? Who runs our newspapers and TV stations? Are we at peace or in War? Who is Prime Minister? Is much of this Island under water? What are people watching, and wearing, and listening to? Real Fits has hired you to post us a report, an essay or illustration from the frontline. Send us your report from the future. Any event: a riot, a disaster, a celebration, or a summary of one week's news, a review of the cultural landscape. We want to know what is Breaking News in 2020. We'd like:
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The best entries - judged by our panel of judges - will be paid a professional rate and published on the Real Fits Journal site and in a separate hard copy publication. DEADLINE: 30 September 2009. |
The Invisible Library - a month long project - jointly with Ink Illustration
Tenderpixel Gallery, WC2, from 13th June - 12th July |
Cometh the “A list” Revolution?
Author: By Jon McClure
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Celebrities – occupying various positions on the scale of idolatry – are without doubt the all-powerful übermensch of our times. A new super-bourgeoisie, whose lifestyles, fashion changes and personal >>> |
Exclusive: Noam Chomsky - The Most Wanted List
Author: Noam Chomsky
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On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean >>> |
The Essay is an Irresistible Form
Author: Stephen Habberley
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"The essay is an irresistible form: the one chance the dead get to speak to us." Gore Vidal, still very much alive, was in Brighton to talk to Andrew Marr >>> |
Author: Curtis Blanc
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Just like everyone else, the US election would come to mind every so often or the news would remind me of what was overdue, but by the 4th November >>> |
696 Form crystallises the Orwellian creep
Author: Mark Donne
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Life can be tough for your contemporary peeler, stab proof vests, tasers, the unearthing of unspeakable crimes against women and children and the daily battle to ensure that the >>> |
Author: Zoe Richards
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In love, she was much younger than he was. Pretty, a nymph disguised, but not a child. Thisbe never needed, felt any loss. Her face was fresh, eyes wide and nothing styled. It >>> |
Frisbeetarianism and a whole other load of issues
Author: Kate Kayuda
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Frisbeetarianism is a religion of unclear origins. The basic principle of it is that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and you cannot get it >>> |
Author: Tahani Sharif
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My eyes moved to the other side of the street. It was March. My hair was drenched and the pavements were as slippery as ice. The yellowing oak trees >>> |
Author: Dean Stalham
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Let’s talk business. The Heroin business. A part of it any way; a killer that takes lives indiscriminately and without prejudice. I haven’t trawled through the internet and searched >>> |
The House with the Fish Pond (After Charles Bukowski)
Author: Valeria Melchioretto
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How alive was the man with the dangerous eyes |
Media Ownership in the UK By John Harris
Author: John Harris
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Not so long ago, I wrote an article for the Guardian's Weekend magazine about Andy Coulson, the ex-editor of The News Of The World who now spends his working >>> |
Author: Jemma Borg
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from The places of our absence 1. Beijing In the beginning, there was light, the white shades |
