{"id":475,"date":"2018-01-29T01:25:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T01:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2018-01-29T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T01:25:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission is to provide a home for independent voices that inspire new thinking. We firmly reject over-specialisation and insularity. This is a public intellectual forum and news source nourished by many rivers.<\/p>\n<p>We accept <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/submissions\/\">submissions<\/a><\/span> from across the political spectrum provided content is referenced, and does not contain racist or discriminatory language. We welcome articles of varied length, especially long reads over two thousand words, and can offer editorial assistance. Poets, fiction writers, artists and musicians should contact the editors listed below; for all other enquiries email: admin@cassandravoices.com.<\/p>\n<p>The mythological Cassandra\u2019s tragedy was to have her accurate prophecies dismissed by those who thought they knew better. Thus, against her advice, the Trojans accepted the gift of a wooden horse from an apparently departing Greek army, out of which crawled the soldiers who sacked the city in the dead of night.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4642\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4642 size-main-block\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/CassandraAjax-351x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"185\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ajax drags Cassandra from Palladium. Pompeii, House of Menander.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are committed to an aesthetically-informed presentation: a recognition of the value of<a href=\"http:\/\/distinctiverepetition.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0graphic identity<\/span><\/a> and photographic integrity; a respect for the creative processes beyond primary textual communication.<\/p>\n<p>We also seek financial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cassandravoices\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">support<\/span><\/span><\/a> from funders, big or small currently through Patreon, as we attempt to break the mould.<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <strong>cassandravoices@gmail.com<\/strong><br \/>\nFacebook:<strong>@CassandraVoices<\/strong><br \/>\nTwitter: <strong>@voicescassandra<\/strong><br \/>\nInstagram:<strong>@cassandravoices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cassandra Voices - The Hard Copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/StcXwlOT9yE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A short film \u2018Cassandra Voices &#8211; The Hard Copy\u2019 by S\u00e9 Merry Doyle explores the motivations for the publication of the first edition.<\/p>\n<p>The Editorial Team behind Cassandra Voices is composed of:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor: Frank Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/NewProfile.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"866\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Prior to setting up Cassandra Voices his writing was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/men-of-1916-had-much-in-common-with-bolsheviks-1.3244334\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Irish Times<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondonmagazine.org\/the-easter-rising\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the London Magazine<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drb.ie\/essays\/the-evil-that-men-do\">the Dublin Review of Books<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/villagemagazine.ie\/index.php\/2017\/06\/needed-compassion-for-all-nature\/\">Village Magazine<\/a><\/span>, and the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsociety.ie\/News\/News\/Stories\/Wild-thing--legal-rights-for-nature-and-the-environment\/#.XUnl4ehKjIU\">Law Society Gazette<\/a><\/span>, among others. He is the author of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/292163391_Beef_with_potatoes_Food_agriculture_and_sustainability_in_modern_Ireland\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Beef with Potatoes: food, agriculture, and sustainability in modern Ireland<\/span>\u2019<\/a> for The Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 115C, Food and Drink in Ireland (2015). He previously taught a course on the History and Politics of Food in University College Dublin, and tutored at a number of Oxford colleges and in Anglo-American University in Prague, as well as delivering papers at academic conferences in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/arrow.dit.ie\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&amp;context=dgs\">Dublin<\/a><\/span> and Berlin. His interests include nature, literature and politics. Frank aspires to poetry and tweets prosaically from<\/p>\n<p>Twitter:<strong> @frankarmstrong2<br \/>\n<\/strong>Instagram: <strong>@frankarmstrong222<br \/>\n<\/strong>Email:<strong> cassandravoices@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arts Editor: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-02-25-at-10.53.14-AM1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><br \/>\nItalian photographer who arrived into journalism via an unorthodox route. A background in photography brought a desire to tell other people&#8217;s stories leading to an apprenticeship in the written medium. Co-Founder of the media outlet Cassandra Voices, he contributes to the publication in a multitude of ways.<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <strong>daniele@cassandravoices.com<\/strong><br \/>\nInstagram: <strong>@idinidaniele<br \/>\n<\/strong>Twitter: <strong>@danieleidiniph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction Editor: Dominic Mallen<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/DomImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1600\" \/><br \/>\nDominic is a writer concentrating mainly on prose and particularly short stories but has also produced essays and poems. He currently lives in London. Dominic is currently excepting submissions for short stories and can be contacted at <strong>dommallen1975@yahoo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can read a selection of his writing for Cassandra Voices <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/author\/dominic-mallen\/\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Editor; Edward Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4466 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/P1020159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"602\" \/><br \/>\nEdward Clarke\u2019s <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/42111062-eighteen-psalms\">Eighteen Psalms<\/a><\/span> was published by Periplum Poetry in 2018. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0bgw8vl\">Clarke\u2019s Psalter<\/a><\/span>, a documentary he presented about making these poems, was broadcast on BBC, Radio 4 in September 2018.\u00a0He\u00a0is also the author of two books of criticism,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/list\/1976143.Edward_Clarke\">The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(Iff Books 2014), which makes claims for the efficacy of poetry in our industrialized world, where we are presented with environmental, political and economic challenges, and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/20037260-the-later-affluence-of-w-b-yeats-and-wallace-stevens\">The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens<\/a><\/span> (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). He has an MA (Oxon) in English Language and Literature and was awarded a PhD by Trinity College, Dublin, for his work on the American poet, Wallace Stevens, in relation to Shakespeare, Milton, and various Romantic poets. He currently teaches English literature and art and architectural history at <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torch.ox.ac.uk\/edward-clarke\">Oxford University<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter<em>:<\/em> <strong>@EdwardClarke20<\/strong><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>E-mail: <strong>admin@cassandravoices.com (attention Edward Clarke)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Website: <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/edwardjamesclarke.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/edwardjamesclarke.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Multimedia Editor: Fellipe Lopes<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7446 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2020-02-25-at-11.24.34-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" \/><br \/>\nFellipe Lopes is a documentary filmmaker and photographer, who has worked in the field of media production for the past ten years. Since growing up in Brazil, he has worked in over fifteen countries, and more than fifty cities, in Latin America, North America, Africa and Europe: from the dense urban landscapes of New York City and London to the mysterious natural world of the Amazon in Brazil.<br \/>\nFellipe believes in freedom of the press, in projects of social equality, support for environmental causes and good conversations about immigration, accompanied by good coffee and great Brazilian music.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><strong>@fellipelopes7<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Instagram: <strong>fellipelopes.7<\/strong><br \/>\nE-mail: <strong>fellipelopes@hotmail.com<br \/>\n<\/strong>Website:<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fellipelopes.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/fellipelopes.com\/<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing Editor: Ben Pantrey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12847 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OOC27091-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"876\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/author\/ben-pantrey\/\">Ben Pantrey<\/a><\/span> is a writer from Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. His creative work, including poetry and an Irish language short story, have appeared in student magazines <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/grasszine\/docs\/grass_online\">Grass<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scathan.ie\/2017\/\">Sc\u00e1th\u00e1n.<\/a><\/span> From 2017, he took a Single Honours English Studies course in Trinity College Dublin, graduating with a First Class Honours in 2021. As a non-fiction writer, his music and film writings have been published in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/trinityfilmreview.com\/tag\/ben-pantrey\/\">Trinity Film Review<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn2magazine.ie\/author\/ben-pantrey\/\">TN2<\/a><\/span>, both popular Trinity College student publications. From April 2020, he took on the role of deputy music editor for TN2, overseeing the publication of five print issues, and numerous online articles.\u00a0After graduating, he joined Cassandra Voices, first as a contributor, and subsequently as an editor.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter:<strong> @benpantrey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our mission is to provide a home for independent voices that inspire new thinking. We firmly reject over-specialisation and insularity. This is a public intellectual forum and news source nourished by many rivers. We accept submissions from across the political spectrum provided content is referenced, and does not contain racist or discriminatory language. 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