Do you have lots of short stories you would like people to read?
Would you like to receive CDs to review, or start interviewing some of your heroes?
Would like to come on a holiday to a lighthouse?
If so read on!
The friends of the heroes are looking for new writers for the New Year. We are looking for creative, witty, handsome, individuals to join our team. Ok ok the witty and handsome bit is not strictly necessary. To help you decide whether this is something that would interest you we have put together a short guide to joining the friends of the heroes…
Anything you like, anything you feel passionate about, anything that makes you feel better by writing it. We accept short stories, poems, music reviews, factual pieces about just about anything.
You can write as often or as infrequently as you like. Ideally we would like people to find people who would like to write on a regular basis and help with the running of friends of the heroes.
When we first started friends of the heroes we used to write "about" pages. These were short editorial pieces which aimed to explain the feelings that kept us going and what it all meant to us. I think for me the closest I've ever come to pinning down the question of "why do we do it?" was "because it is better than if we didn't".
It is better to come home from work and write something or make something than to just work 9-5.30, 5 days a week and live from one weekend to the next. It is better to be part of something than just watching life drift by and wondering where it is disappearing to. It is better to start writing about the bands we really love, or the films that change our lives, than just moan about the lack of mainstream press they get. And, although we can't offer to pay anything for any articles we are hopeful that there are other like minded individuals who want to be involved.
But it is not all about the writing… Friends of The Heroes, has been going for 3 and half years now. It has been the reason I have made many friends and and done a million things, from travelling around Norway on a train, or visiting a lighthouse in Scotland, to discovering some of my favourite bands.
If you would like to be involved please write to: friendheroes@friendsoftheheroes.co.uk.