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ROGER HUTCHINSON is an award-winning author and journalist from Farnworth in Lancashire. In his final year at Bretton Hall College in Barnsley, he founded and edited Sad Traffic - later becoming alternative newspaper, STYNG (Sad Traffic Yorkshire News & Gossip). After meeting Kung-Fu Monthly founder Felix Dennis in London, he moved to the capital to work with him on Oz, International Times and Time Out, later becoming a freelance journalist.After relocating to Skye, Hutchinson joined the West Highland Free Press. He is currently a feature journalist, columnist and reviewer for the West Highland Free Press, The Scotsman, The Herald, The Guardian and The Press & Journal. He has won several awards, including North of Scotland Feature Writer of the Year and UK Weekly Sports Writer of the Year. His 1990 book Polly: The True Story Behind Whisky Galore, was shortlisted for The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.FELIX DENNIS was a poet, publisher and philanthropist from Kingston-upon-Thames. In 1967, he began selling copies of Oz magazine, later becoming a designer, writer and eventually editor for the counterculture publication, where, along with Richard Neville and Jim Anderson, Dennis found himself in the dock at the Old Bailey under the Obscenities Act.After the Oz trial, Dennis founded the legendary poster magazine Kung-Fu Monthly, which ran from 1974 to 1984, spawning seventy-nine issues and several books. In addition to Kung-Fu Monthly, he produced other popular magazines covering various films, TV shows, pop stars and sporting celebrities of the time. His magazine Personal Computer World turned Dennis into a publishing megapower.In later life, Dennis became an accomplished poet, publishing several poetry books and embarking on several world reading tours. He passed away in 2014.
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