“Happy New Year.
Well it finally happened. The short stories I wrote for Costa Coffee during my six month residency there have been published and will be on sale in Costa stores throughout the UK from tomorrow, Thursday 8th January for £1. If you’re passing and fancy and hot chocolate and a story pick one up. I would say ‘Grab them while you can’ but there are 30,000 copies so take your time.”

Davey Spens

My ‘Uniform’ project has been shortlisted in ‘Shots Young Photographer of the Year 2009’

“Initially a number of young, unknown photographers were sought out and invited to submit work to illustrate the shots Directory, and provide a cover. But, for the past two years, this has developed into what has become an international competition for graduating photography students to present their work to a captive audience of creatives worldwide.”

‘The Life of Y’ has been introduced to me by Master Kelly. It’s a website and an ongoing project which asks you to be involved in responding to the question ‘If you could say one sentence knowing the whole world is listening, what would you say?’

Check it.

Davey Spens is a friend of a friend. And a writer.

He spent a year at Falmouth Arts College studying for a Broadcast TV Postgraduate, passed with a distinction, and his short film Shadowboxer was selected for the London Film Festival. In 2004 he joined AMV BBDO, the UK’s largest advertising agency, where he was based for four years, creating award- winning campaigns for Pepsico and the National Lottery. In 2007 he was named one of Marketing Week’s Rising Stars. He was commissioned to write an original screenplay for a Los Angeles film company, and is currently completing his first novel with a grant from the Arts Council. In March he was appointed the first Costa Writer in Residence.

I like what Davey creates and as a fellow Falmouth person thought I would give him a shout within my blog.

His next short story book is ‘Frothy Tales’ and will be available at Costa Coffee nationwide.

Martin Schoeller’s recent Female Bodybuilders project is interesting.

Past work here

‘Police Officer, 2008’

Happy New Year