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For specific questions about the online mentoring scheme, contact Emma at emmaburleigh1977@yahoo.co.ukLDC is the largest women-led comics forum for all. Launched in  2009 by  Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman thefocus is on comics work based on life narrative and the drama of the everyday. The organisation is voluntary with a committee of 6 creators.LDC now has a worldwide presence with meetings held in Czech Republic, with pop ups in Delhi, Bangalore and New York, as well as closer to home in Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Dundee, Manchester with Nottingham, Portsmouth and Southampton branches launching in 2019.  Artists, academics, publishers and fans from around the world are invited to speak at LDC. The evenings are a platform for people to test new works and ideas, where emerging artists present their work alongside more established practitioners, in an inspiring and friendly atmosphere. Everyone is welcome, including those with no knowledge of comics and those already immersed.LDC is a voluntary unincorated organisation. In 2018 with support from Arts Council England and crowdfunding, LDC launched the first women-only prize for graphic novels in progress. LDC activity is now expanding to offer professional development focused activity.LDC London meetings are currently run byRachael Ball,Wallis Eates and Nicola StreetenVisit the website to find out about other events and sign up to our newsletter (via the website) to receive monthly news of opportunities and events.LONDON ORGANISERSDr Nicola Streetenis speaker and writer about and teacher and drawer of comics. Author ofBilly, Me & You(Myriad Editions, 2011) the first long-form graphic memoir by a British woman to be published. Nicola co-founded the international forum Laydeez do Comics in 2009 which in 2018 launched the first women’s prize for graphic novels, UK. Her PhD from the University of Sussex will be published in 2020 asUK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Review(Palgrave Macmillan) as complement toThe Inking Woman(Myriad Editions, 2018) apicture-led celebration of the work of over 100 named British women artists spanning 250 years, which she co-edited.www.streetenillustration.comRachael BallHer first graphic novel  'The Inflatable Woman' published by Bloomsbury 2015  was listed as one of the Guardian's Best Graphic Novels for 2015 and one of Paul Gravett's Top 10.“Read it. Inspiring. Poignant. Wonderfully unconventional” –Sunday Telegraph. Her work has also  appeared in the cult comic Deadline and The Graphic Canon of Childrens Literature. Her work can be seen at the House of IIlustration's Comixatrix exhibition and at the Cartoon Museum's Great British Graphic Novel exhibition.Her second graphic novel 'Wolf' was published in October 2018 by SelfMadeHero and is already receiving great reviews.She also teaches masterclasss and workshops at the House of illustration on how to write and develop your own graphic novels.See examples of her work at http://rachaelball.tumblr.com/Wallis Eateswas shortlisted for the Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel award in 2014 for her graphic memoir, ‘Mumoirs’. Since then she has worked with brain injury survivors, prisoners, amateur boxers and adults with dementia to collaborate on stories through graphic narrative format. 'Wings' is a collaboration with Dr. Victoria Anderson and the men of HMP Wandsworth which was funded after a successful Kickstarter campaign and is due out this year, while she continues to work on ‘Like an Orange’ which is crowdfunding through publishers Unbound Books - a graphic narrative inspired by her residency with the charity Headway who help to rehabilitate brain injury survivors. You can support this project by going towww.unbound.com/books/like-an-orangeTo find out more about LDC and to hear podcasts and read the blogs of previous meetings,please see our website.Leeds and Manchester organiser:Lou Crosbyhttp://seeingpoetry.co.ukBirmingham organiser:Charlotte Baileyhttps://charlottewithink.comBristol Organisers:Emma Burleigh- www.emmaburleigh.com andCamille Aubry- www.camilleaubry.com/

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REVIEWS: A total of 24 x 50 min sessions are available from a choice of 6 reviewers
Rachael Ball, Wallis Eates, Kate Evans, Karrie Fransman, Simone Lia, and Una 
Six of these sessions will be offered to the shortlisted entries as part of their prize. 
Extra sessions are now being offered initially to the wider community. Male or female cartoonists or artists with an interest in graphic novel storytelling. 
In the event of any spaces remaining it will then be made more widely available to all genders. The cost of a review is at a heavily subsidised cost of £27 and this has been made possible by our Arts Council funding. These reviews must be booked and paid for in advance and bookings are non-refundable. In the case of signing up and then being shortlisted, the payment will be refunded.
FORMAT
The sessions will be 50 mins long and applicants must bring a print or copy of their work to be reviewed on the day and are asked to include a short synopsis. The review/ mentoring session will include a critical response to artworks and projects along with advice on a practical and artistic level. The sessions can also be opportunities to ask for professional development advice. The reviews will take the format of the first 15 mins for the reviewer to look through the work and the remaining 35 mins of feedback, discussion and mentoring. 
Applicants can choose one session with a reviewer of their choice from the list below on a first come/ first served basis.
REVIEWERS
Rachael Ball is a cartoonist and workshops teacher.
Her graphic novel The Inflatable Woman (Bloomsbury) was a Guardian Best graphic novel 2015. Her GN Wolf is due out Sept 2018 (Self Made Hero.) She will be running a ‘Graphic novel your Life’ course at the HOI in August. She is also a coordinator for Laydeez do comics (London.)
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IG: ballrachael
Twitter: @rachaelcartoons
 
Wallis Eates is an autobiographical and collaborative comics artist whose works have been shortlisted for the Myriad Editions First Graphic Novel, and Broken Frontier awards. Her latest project, ‘Like an Orange’ is about the brain injury survivors she met through the charity Headway, and is due out with Unbound Books. She also coordinates Laydeez do comics (London branch.)
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Twitter: @walliseates
 
Kate Evans is a cartoonist, artist and activist. Author of Red Rosa, and the award-winning graphic novel Threads from the Refugee Crisis. She has also written Funny Weather, a graphic guide to climate change, Copse, about environmental protest, The Food of Love, on breastfeeding and Bump, about pregnancy and birth. 
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Facebook: Cartoon Kate
Twitter: @cartoonkate
 
 Karrie Fransman is a comic creator. She tells visual stories in books, newspapers, animations, sculptures and in virtual reality. She has published two graphic novels 'The House That Groaned' and 'Death of the Artist' (Penguin Random House). Her comics strips and graphic stories have been published by The Guardian, The Times, Time Out, The Telegraph, The New Statesman, The Young Vic, Psychologies Magazine, The Arts Council, The Goethe Institute and The British Red Cross. <A HREF="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.karriefransman.com%2F&h=ATNupZNomsAl2tyPrWZLczvyGK1eAm4cQxolhXLINc14epTuiLbwqhVMJCivv7Yi9MMBRt1LJDYXgzrGO19YXVfmjILpHtqp9i9Cs8uuncEG6egddN584bAMkp3OfMzcYfgV8-5e9x4" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.karriefransman.com</A>"
 
 
Simone Lia has over twenty years experience working with image, text and story since studying illustration at the University of Brighton and then completing a Masters in visual communication at the Royal College of Art. Her graphic novels include Fluffy (2009, Jonathan Cape) and Please God, Find Me a Husband (2012, Jonathan Cape.) She creates a weekly comic strip for The Observer.
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Una is an artist/writer. She has published a novel, Becoming/Unbecoming (2015, Myriad Editions) and a short story, On Sanity: One Day In Two Lives (2016). Becoming/Unbecoming has been critically acclaimed, adopted onto curricula and widely translated. Una is currently working on a graphic commission for New Writing North and a graphic novel for Virago. 
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