EDITORIALS

THIS 1998 issue of Anatomy, the annual publication of new writing from The Nottingham Trent University, is a tribute to the hard work and sustained enthusiasm of the students who have put it together. We thank everyone who generously gave submissions, and regret that economy of space made it impossible to include everything.

Early on, the editorial team decided to opt for a new, thematic approach, and the material was carefully selected, edited and copied by MA students on the team. Particular thanks to Emma Davies for her intensive labours typing and laying out text for reproduction, and to Kim Lakin for organising the cover design.

Going public with one's writing, on however small a scale, is a significant and symbolic move, and part of the importance of a publication like Anatomy is the chance it offers writers to enter the public domain, mostly for the first time. What's striking about this issue is that despite the theme, each contribution is a distinct, individual voice - a measure of the quality and liveliness of the creative writing practice going on at different levels within the university. Long may it continue.

Rosie Jackson (MA in Writing Tutor)

THIS YEAR Anatomy's editorial team issued a challenge. We invited submissions for The Nottingham Trent University's "new writing" publication on a specific theme: Unsuitable Behaviour - the exploration of taboos and transgressions.

Contemporary Western literature has inherited the hard won luxury of being able to explore and confront difficult subject matter without fear of censorship. Society can, surely, only benefit from the informed, quality debate that results from the courage and intellectual integrity of authors who tackle contentious issues. In this light we offer a selection of writings, submitted by; the academic, the professional, and the occasional writer; from a gamut of genre and form, dealing with subject matter ranging from the offensive to the ridiculous.

If, after reading this diverse and challenging collection of writings you are stirred to stop and think and/or begin writing yourself, then the hard work of all those who have produced and submitted pieces will have been worthwhile

Paul Lathrope