A NUMBER of Warrington students are getting ready for the next stage of their careers after being offered engineering apprenticeships with a top regional employer. Three UTC Warrington students have secured apprenticeship places with Sellafield in Cumbria, that start in September 2021, and another two learners are on the reserve list. Lee Barber, chief executive and principal at UTC Warrington, said: “The UTC equips students with the vital skills that employers need, enabling them to go onto great careers. ‘‘Apprenticeships are an excellent route to achieving that and I’d like to congratulate our students on their success.” Declan Finn, 18, Amber Thomason,18, and Daniel Neve, 18, who are completing a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in engineering and A Level maths, have secured apprenticeship places.
Dragon Con 2021 Nominations are open.
I got reminded that they’re open until the middle of July (the link’s here). Before you ask: alas, I do not have an eligible book this time: FROZEN DREAMS was published before the period started, and TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION is a collection of short stories, not a novel. But I agree with Declan Finn that the Dragon Awards
matter, and you should nominate the books published in the last year that you’ve read and liked. Posted on
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INTRODUCING BUTLER TO NEW READERS. Elizabeth Connor describes the work of “repackaging the Patternist Series for the Mother of Afrofuturism” in “How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves” at
Literary Hub.
…After some back and forth and plenty of discussion with the editor acting as mediator we determined that by elegant, they likely meant more stylized human forms in more sophisticated poses, as well as a textural or brushy quality to the art (as there had been on the Parable books), that lent an air of being hand-drawn rather than machine-made. As for dynamic, we soon understood that the symmetry of the earliest comps was what the agent and estate were reacting against. By simply breaking the vertical axis and giving each cover a certain degree of asymmetry even as the figures revolved around a central “moon” shape that remained static they felt much more alive. The designer came back with revisions and, in relatively quick succession,