How is your January going so far? Keeping to all those writing resolutions that you made for the New Year? I hope so, but I would love to hear all about how you all are getting on, whether it be good or bad.
As for me, I have been quite productive and am sticking to my resolutions (so far, so good). I have already finished four short stories and am in the process of editing them for entry into upcoming competitions. I am working on completing my first draft of Space Cake, my comedy novel started as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge and I have applied for a Northern Writers Award new fiction bursary. Yesterday I sent five chapters and a pitch to Chicken House as part of their Open Coop submission amnesty day, so fingers crossed.
For those followers that can easily get to the Tricycle Theatre, please find details below of a poetry event:
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Acclaimed poets Linton Kwesi Johnson
and Patience
Agbabi come together for a special event at The
Tricycle Theatre to share works of literature that have
inspired them throughout their lives.
Supported by leading actors from the stage and screen, the poets will
present a range of work from TS Eliot to Derek Walcott, explaining
their personal significance as well as performing some of their own
poetry.
The evening will be a joint fundraiser for English PEN and The
Tricycle.
Inspirations
Sunday 2nd
February
6.30pm-8pm
£16-26
The Tricycle Theatre
269 Kilburn High Road
NW6 7JR
Book tickets
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Patience
Agbabi
Renowned
for her performances on page and stage, Patience's poems have been
broadcast all over the world. In 2004 she was nominated one
of the UK’s Next Generation Poets. She has lectured in
Creative Writing at several UK universities and has published
three poetry collections, R.A.W.,
Transformatrix and
Bloodshot
Monochrome . This forthcoming collection will be
published by Canongate in April 2014.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
Widely regarded as the
father of ‘dub poetry’, (a term he coined to describe a way a number
of reggae DJs blended music and verse) Linton's first book of
poems Voices of the Living and the Dead was published by the
Race Today imprint in 1974. In 2002 he became the second living poet
– and the only black poet – to be published in the Penguin Modern
Classic Series. He was awarded the Golden PEN Award for a lifetime
achievement in literature in 2012.
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