Zarina Holmes

After The Rain

A collection of contemplative writings and ongoing photography project on nature by Zarina Holmes, based between the author’s homes at the London riverside, UK and seaside town in Perak, Malaysia. The project started as a comment the ocean plastics issue which snowballed into a London council-funded arts event, River to River, Coast to Coast in 2019, participated by UK artists. The photobooks are published by Studio GLUE‘s imprint, Story Of Books. After The Rain series are available online and at selected bookshop partner.

After The Rain is archived at The British Library and currently in collection at Zontiga Library in Malaysia and Photobook Cafe Library in UK. It was selected as a part of the Malaysian Photobook Archive 2022.

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The Constant Companion tales

Zarina Holmes is the story development editor and creative director of The Constant Companion Tales, by author Salina Christmas. The horror fiction series is a collection of serialised short stories of post-colonial horror spanning three generations. It’s loosely inspired by her childhood during the time of the Second Malayan Insurgency, and also by the periods between 1938 and 1966

The Constant Companion Tales has been serialised on Amazon Kindle as an e-book series since September 2022. The chapters are collected and published as paperback. Two paperbacks have been published so far: The Keeper Of My Kin and A Request For Betrayal.

STORY OF BOOKS

Zarina is a pop culture editor of Story Of Books, a journal by by award-winning Studio GLUE. It features pop culture reviews, exclusive interviews and how-to articles for creators. Story Of Books is also a publisher and an imprint of Studio GLUE. The journal began life as a Twitter hashtag for London Design Festival 2011 event, Whatever is to become of books?, held at the University College London. The event addressed the shift in narrative within design, literature and journalism, from traditional storytelling to digital storytelling.