FAO FEATURES EDITORS - SEPTEMBER 2017 FEATURES BULLETIN

Hello.

Here are some ideas for September 2017 features. Some of them may be in your diary already. Some of them may be added to your diary after reading this. Some features may be written by in-house journalists. But maybe, just maybe, I can write something for you.

Have a good old nosey round the blog to see some of the features in the archives.

https://droppedthemoon.blogspot.co.uk

Let me know what you want, word count, deadline and fee and I will get to work. (A summary of my published work appears below.)

Here's the September 2017 list and, if I can help, I look forward to hearing from you.  joecushnan@aol.com 

I will add more to the list if and when I come across any interesting ideas.

1 Poet Siegfried Sassoon died at 80 50 years ago

5 Mother Teresa died at 87 20 years ago

6 Princess Diana’s funeral 20 years ago

6 Luciano Pavarotti died at 71 10 years ago

7 Classic FM radio launched 25 years ago

10 Anita Roddick (Body Shop) died at 64 10 years ago

12 Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died at 30 40 years ago

12 Anthony “Norman Bates” Perkins died at 60 25 years ago

16 Black Wednesday sterling crisis 25 years ago

18 The Central Intelligence Agency formed 70 years ago

20 QE2 liner launched 50 years ago

21 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien published 80 years ago

22 Marcel Marceau died (quietly) at 84 10 years ago

29 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons debuted on TV (in Supermarionation) 50 years ago

30 BBC Radio 1 launched 50 years ago

30 Jazz’s greatest drummer, Buddy Rich, born 100 years ago

JOE CUSHNAN

Books: Belfast Backlash; Shops, Shoppers, Shopping & Shafted; Before Amnesia: Seeds Of A Memoir; Shaking Hands; Retail Confidential; Much Calamity & The Redundance Kid; Stephen Boyd: From Belfast To Hollywood; Hamish Sheaney: The Nearly-Man Of Irish Literature; Juggling Jelly; Geek!; A Belfast Kid; Jack Elam, I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life; The Chuckle Files; The Poems Of Hamish Sheaney: Remastered & Expanded; Only Yules & Verses; Only Drools & Corsets; Fun With Words, Fun With Rhyme; Fun With Words, Fun With Noise

Published features, reviews, poetry and the odd broadcasting gig include – Family Tree magazine, BBC Radio Ulster "The Arts Show", BBC Radio Ulster "The John Toal Show", Wells Festival/Poetry 2016 (Shortlist), The Galway Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Derwent Poetry Festival 2015, 2015 Templar Poetry Anthology “Mill”, Octavius Magazine, Ireland’s Big Issue, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Belfast Telegraph, 2013 Belfast Book Festival, Irish News, BBC TV NI “Stephen Boyd: The Man Who Never Was”, BBC Radio Sheffield “Rony Robinson”, BBC Radio Ulster “Saturday Magazine”, BBC Radio 4 “You & Yours”, The Guardian, Tribune, NZ Management, The Grocer, Retail Week, Edge, Open Eye, Yorkshire Post, The Catholic Herald, Cambridge Evening News, The London Paper, Southern Cross, NZ Freelance, Writer’s News, Belfast News Letter, Irelands Own, Fortnight, The Dalhousie Review; Blithe Spirit; The Cannon’s Mouth, Poetry Monthly, Poetic Comment, Bard, Current Accounts, Candelabrum, Decanto, Inclement, Haiku Scotland, Time Haiku, etc.