New
Writing North news
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Whodunnit? Find out
at Crime Story
 New Writing
North and Northumbria University are pleased to announce Crime Story, our
exciting weekend of discussion and workshops for fans and writers of
crime fiction. The weekend will focus on a fictional murder that we’ve
commissioned from best-selling crime novelist Ann Cleeves, which she
shared at a special event last night (13 February). In it a woman finds
her foster-son dead in a locked room, a blood-splattered picture of an
enigmatic woman on the wall and the dubious landlord nowhere to be found.
The killer? Well, that’s up to the Crime Story participants.
Crime Story will take place on 31 May-1 June and a host of top crime
writers, criminologists, lawyers, police and forensics experts will walk
attendees through the investigation, trial and punishment of the crime.
There will be opportunities to participate in the digital autopsy of a
computer, find out about ‘life inside’ from Guardian columnist Erwin James or
listen to novelist Louise Welsh talking to Observer crime fiction critic Peter
Guttridge. To find out more about Crime Story, and to book your place, go
to www.crimestory.co.uk. The
first five people to book will receive a free copy of Ann Cleeves' new
novel, Harbour Street. |
Young apprentice
opportunity at NWN
New Writing North is seeking a creative apprentice to work 30 hours
per week in our offices in central Newcastle. Due to funding criteria we
can only accept applications from young people aged 16-18 who fall within
one of more of the following categories:
• Looked after young person/young person leaving care
• Not in education, employment or training
• Has special educational needs and/or disabilities
To find out more see www.newwritingnorth.com/about-new-writing-north-creative-apprentice-programme-assistant-page-2542.html. |
Northern Crime
competition 2014: looking for new northern crime writers
Northern Crime, the innovative literary competition that aims to
unearth and publish exciting new crime writing from writers who live and
work in the North of England, is back. After a successful debut year –
with a launch list of Rebecca Muddiman’s Stolen, Helen Cadbury’s To Catch a Rabbit,
Alfie Crowe’s Rant
and Michael Donovan’s Behind
Closed Doors – Moth Publishing is looking for more fresh new
voices, more great stories with strong characters, and fiction that isn’t
afraid to push the boundaries of the genre. This year, for the first
time, we are also looking for short stories to publish in the first
Northern Crime anthology.
So take your detective novel off desktop duty and get him back on
those literary streets, by submitting to the Northern Crime competition
at www.mothpublishing.com.
Deadline for entries is Friday 29 August. Moth Publishing is a
partnership between New Writing North and Sunderland-based Business
Educational Publishers Limited. |
Tyne makes welcome
return to North East stages
 Originally
commissioned as part of Live Theatre’s 40th birthday celebrations,
Michael Chaplin’s play, Tyne,
dramatises extracts from Michael’s own book Tyne View, published by New Writing
North. The play ties the scenes together with stories from some great
North East writers, such as Tom Hadaway, Julia Darling, Alan Plater and
Sid Chaplin. Using music, story and images it maps the epic history,
atmosphere and soul of the river, using stories gathered from the people
Michael met walking the tidal length of the river in 2011 when he was
writer-in-residence at the Port of Tyne.
Tyne
plays at Customs
House, South Shields from 26 February-1 March and Newcastle’s
Theatre Royal from 4-8 March.
During the run, a limited number of copies of Tyne View will be on
sale in the New
Writing North shop for just £15 plus £1.50 P&P. |
Young writers wanted
for Writing Squad
The Writing Squad is looking for writers aged between 16-21 who live,
work or study in the North of England to join a free writer development
programme. Supported by professional writers, and welcoming writers of
any format – from poetry and prose through stage and radio plays, to game
scripts and graphic novels – The Writing Squad is looking for talent, not
formal qualifications. Former graduates have gone on to careers as poets,
journalists, singers, sound artists, TV writers and as an award-winning
playwright. To apply visit www.writingsquad.com/join-the-squad/.
Deadline for applications: 30 March. |
People
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Carys Davies
longlisted for Sunday Times EFG Award
 Congratulations
to Carys Davies, who has been longlisted for the 2014 Sunday Times EFG
Award for her short story, On
Commercial Hill, from her debut collection of short stories, Some New Ambush.
Carys won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2013 to support the development of
her second short story collection, The
Redemption of Galen Pike and Other Stories, which will be
published by Salt Publishing in October. To get a taste of the new
stories, see www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781907773716. |
In the
North
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Arts Council
literature meetings in the North East
Alison Boyle, Arts Council England relationship manager for literature
(north) will be working in the North East on Wednesday 26 February and
Thursday 27 March. If you would like some advice or to discuss a
potential project, please contact her to arrange a time to meet at alison.boyle@artscouncil.org.uk. |
Opportunities
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Mslexia 2014 Women’s
Short Story Competition
This competition is for previously unpublished stories of up to 2,200
words by women writers. This year’s judge is novelist Jane Rogers (The Voyage Home and Island) and she is
looking for stories on any subject. The first prize in the competition is
£2,000, plus the optional extras of a week’s writing retreat at Chawton
House Library and a day with a Virago editor. All winning stories will be
published in issue 62 of Mslexia,
published in June 2014. Deadline for submissions: 17 March. Entry fee:
£10 per story. For more information go to www.mslexia.co.uk/shortstory. |
Writer wanted for
folktale project
One of the enduring fascinations of fairy tales is their ability to
adapt to changing tastes and social mores without ever losing their
essence. Unfortunately, we know precious little about their origins and
development. However, Dr Jamie Tehrani at Durham University aims to
rectify this situation. He is analysing variants of famous folktales from
different cultures and historical periods to reconstruct their most
ancient surviving features and is looking for a writer with the
imagination and story-telling flair to flesh them out and bring them back
to life. Interested parties are encouraged to get in touch at jamie.tehrani@dur.ac.uk. |
Free place on Sagra
delle Words writing course
Sagra delle Words is offering a writer a free place on Adrift in the Landscape: Place
and Writing, a creative writing course in Italy with tutor
Sheree Mack. The course will be taking place from 12-19 October. Deadline
for applications: 30 April. For more information or to apply, see sagradellewords.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/one-free-place/. |
Jobs
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Northern Film &
Media: Script mentors
Northern Film & Media are searching for two experienced script
mentors to give industry guidance to some of the North East’s top script writers.
The aim is to help writers develop the strongest possible script and
pitch ahead of meetings with financiers. The mentoring will involve Skype
sessions and notes. For more information about the post go to http://northernmedia.org/about-us/vacancies. |
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Live@theLux:
Coordinator
A new initiative to develop an arts venue within the Café Lux bar in
Pudsey, West Yorkshire, is looking for a creative individual with
experience of event management, venue programming and a love of bring the
arts to new contexts and people. Deadline: 3 March. For more information
or to apply see www.wedocreativity.co.uk/opportunities.php
or email hello@wedocreativity.co.uk. |
The University of
Glasgow: Lecturer in creative writing
The University of Glasgow College of the Arts is seeking a lecturer in
creative writing. The successful candidate will undertake publication and
research in the field of creative writing, teach at postgraduate and
undergraduate level (with particular reference to experimental approaches
to genre), contribute to administration, and participate in the
development and delivery of school, college and university strategy.
Deadline for submissions: 4 March. For more information and to apply, see
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIC743/lecturer-in-creative-writing/. |
Special
offers for New Writing North newsletter subscribers
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Refugee Boy at
Northern Stage
Friday 21
& Saturday 22 March
New Writing North subscribers can get tickets to see Lemn Sissay’s
adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah’s novel for just £10 (normally £24).
Book online at www.northernstage.co.uk
and use the code ‘NWNOffer’ or call the box office on 0191 230 5151 and
quote ‘NWNOffer’.
Alem is 14, in London with his father on the best holiday he has ever
had. Then he awakes to find himself alone in an unfamiliar country. As a
violent civil war rages at home, his Ethopian father and Eritrean mother
make the decision to leave him in London. For more information, see www.northernstage.co.uk/whats-on/refugee-boy. |
How to Be Immortal at
Live Theatre
Friday 21
& Saturday 22 February
New Writing North subscribers who book for How to be Immortal by phone or in
person can get a ticket for £10 if they quote the code ‘New Writing North’.
Penny Dreadful Productions are bringing How to Be Immortal, Mira Dovreni’s play
about ‘live music, dead people, love and DNA’ to Newcastle’s Live
Theatre on 21-22 February. There is also a free event at 9.15pm
following the performance on Friday night where audiences will get a
chance to hear the cast and the director as well as two local experts
talking about the issues raised in the play. Tickets still need to be
booked but the event is free. For more information, see www.live.org.uk/whats-on-book/how-to-be-immortal-post-show-discussion. |
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Deadline
for the next newsletter
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If you have news that you would like to submit
for inclusion in the newsletter please contact tammy@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 24
February. The next edition of The
Listening Post, covering March’s literature events, will go
out in late February. If you have events that you would like to submit
for inclusion for this you will need to send information by 20 February
to tammy@newwritingnorth.com.
While
every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in
this newsletter is correct at the time of going to press, things do
change, frequently at the last minute and very often without our
knowledge.
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