Create a book in 24 hours
The Between the Lines team will be creating a book onsite again this year. Using six specific images of trees as its inspirational image (Click here to see the six images of the trees to use as inspiration for this year's book), all work should be submitted by email to the BTTL team in advance of the festival or onsite at the BTTL venue by 10am on the Saturday.
Reading Groups
Between the Lines are holding three Reading Groups over the weekend in an effort to rekindle people's interest in reading. The books chosen are:
Ross Lawhead
Ross Lawhead illustrated the Hero graphic novel, an adaption of the US touring ‘rock opera’.
Penny Culliford
Penny Culliford is author of the Theodora series, likened to a Christian Bridget Jones’ Diary.
Antony Dunn
Antony Dunn has published two collections of poems and is working towards the completion of a third.
Annie Porthouse
Annie Porthouse takes full blame for the creation of the Christian chick-lit hit Dear Bob (and the sequel Love Jude). To kill time she works as commissioning editor for the Christian magazines thewalk and benchmark.
Simon Morden
Gateshead-based Dr Simon Morden trained as a planetary geologist, realised he was never going to get into space, and decided to write about it instead.
Nick Page
Nick Page is the author of over 20 books, including The Bible Book, The Tabloid Bible and And Now Let's Move into a Time of Nonsense – a critique of the words of worship songs.
Fay Sampson
Fay Sampson has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize on three occasions and is a winner of the Barco de Vapor award for sales of over 100,000 copies of The Watch on Patterick Fell.
Al McCollum
Anglican Minister in six parishes in the wilds of rural Cambridgeshire. Struggling writer, still determined to get the elusive book published!
Pieter Kwant
Pieter Kwant is the director of the Piquant Agency, representing manuscripts to publishers in the areas of theology, art and mission.
Meg Harper
Meg Harper provides creative writing/drama workshops in schools, often based on her own writing.
Davis Bunn
Davis Bunn is writer in residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford and has had more than sixteen national bestsellers.
Richard Armiger
Richard Armiger has a media and technology background having worked within the BBC for 15 years.
Brian Holmes
Brian Holmes co-owns new media publisher Active Media Publishing, which publishes the UK’s leading technology magazine eChurch Active.
