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Women in Tattooing: Hannah Nickson, Lucidity Tattoo

Women in Tattooing: Hannah Nickson, Lucidity Tattoo

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool has long been recognised as the hen and stag capital of the UK, breeding a culture of back-alley tattooing and even underage inking. If you’re a local, it’s pretty clear which shops are the ones to avoid if you want to leave with your skin intact – the most obvious ones to avoid being those donning signs where ‘tattoo’ is spelled incorrectly… [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]While our town’s reputation has been besmirched in the past, change is afoot. As a regular in the ink seat myself, I’m constantly in awe of the incredible creativity and innovation happening in the Blackpool tattoo…
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Seaside special – postcards from the edge

Seaside special – postcards from the edge

There is an exciting opportunity for five new writers to be published in a short story collection alongside award winning writers Andrew Michael Hurley, Carys Bray, Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Kalu and Kirsty Logan.  Bluemoose Books are looking for stories from new writers and new voices for an anthology of short fiction set on the North West Coast edited by the award winning writer Jenn Ashworth. 'From the bright lights of Blackpool to the eerie calm of Morecambe bay, from the port of Whitehaven down to the dunes of Formby, we want your stories. We're interested in the untold tales: the seasonal workers, the overlooked…
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