New
Writing North news
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Arts Council funding
confirmed
New Writing North is pleased to announce that the Arts Council England
has confirmed we will retain our funding at current levels for the next
three years. Thanks to the amazing writers we work with, partners who
support us, and, of course, readers and audiences for helping us
accomplish this. |
Durham Book Festival
Launch announcement
 Join New
Writing North and best-selling author Richard Benson in the beautiful
surroundings of Durham Castle for the launch of the 2014 Durham Book
Festival. Richard will be at the launch to talk about his new book The Valley.
Described by The
Guardian as ‘a masterpiece of empathy and good writing’ the
book explores the lives of a Yorkshire mining family over four
generations. This year’s festival line-up includes world-class authors,
poets and thinkers, as well as a host of exciting new commissions. Guests
at the launch party will be the very first people to discover what the
2014 programme will contain. A limited number of public tickets are
available for £15 on Eventbrite. |
Creative Writing for
Teachers – now recruiting
If you’re a primary or secondary school teacher looking for an
original CPD opportunity you may want to consider joining our Creative
Writing for Teachers group. The group meets twice termly at the Lit and
Phil in Newcastle for workshops with professional writers such as Ann
Coburn and Gillian Allnutt.
The course costs £75 per teacher per year and is suitable for teachers
looking for an opportunity to develop their own writing, but also for
practical ideas that can be used in the classroom to encourage creative
writing. For more information or to sign up contact nick@newwritingnorth.com. |
Durham Book Festival
Schools Day
 Durham Book
Festival is pleased to announce our Durham Book Festival schools’ day
will take place on 6 and 7 October 2014 and is now open now for early
booking. Join authors Meg Rosoff, Mick Manning and Brita Granström, Helen
Stephens, and Daljit Nagra for two days of special events at Durham
Johnston Comprehensive School.
There is also a special Twilight Session with poet Daljit Nagra, who
will lead a poetry writing workshop for teachers. To find out more go to www.durhambookfestival.com/schools. |
Northern Writers
Awards summer party
We had a lovely night with a group of Northern Writers Awards winners
who got to pitch their work to top agents and publishers at our summer
party in London last Thursday. New Fiction Bursary winner Dale Hannah
signed with agent Ben Illis on the night, and many writers have had
requests for manuscripts from publishers, so watch this space for more
news. |
Join the Moth
Publishing crime family
Got an idea for the perfect crime? Then get writing and enter the
Northern Crime Competition. With our last crop of authors doing well,
we’re looking for some new accomplices. There is still two months before
the innovative literary competition closes on the 29 August. Find out
more at Moth Publishing: www.mothpublishing.com. |
People
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In the news
2014 Read Regional poet Tara
Bergin has won the fourth Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry with
her collection This is
Yarrow. As part of the prize, Tara will be going to the
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University to read at the third
annual Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry.
Congratulations to Ben Myers. 2014 continues to be favourable towards
the Durham-born author, as he scoops another award. This time it was the Tom-Gallon
Trust Award for his short story The
Folk Song Singer. The Award judges, Elanor Dymott and Aamer
Hussain, complimented ‘the tautness of the deceptively simple tale’. |
In the
North
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Artists’ Book Market
at BALTIC
This December the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art will play host to
a national two day Artists’ Book Market. Submissions are welcome from
artists, bookmakers, small press publishers and book binders. The
deadline for submission is 1 October. For further details on how to apply
and to download submission forms please go to www.balticmill.com
or email the organiser on theresa_easton@yahoo.co.uk. |
Juice Festival –
tender for Partner Schools Documentary
Juice Festival is seeking a filmmaker to create a documentary,
profiling the festival’s two year relationship with five partner schools
across Newcastle and Gateshead. To find out more about tendering for this
opportunity download
this PDF. |
Join us for the Durham Book
Festival launch
 Join New Writing North and best-selling author
Richard Benson, author of acclaimed new book The Valley, in the
beautiful surroundings of Durham Castle on 12 August for the launch of the 2014
Durham Book Festival. This year’s festival includes world-class authors, poets
and thinkers, as well as a host of exciting new commissions and guests at the
launch party will be the very first to discover what’s in the 2014 programme. A
limited number of public tickets are available for £15. To book, go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/durham-book-festival-launch-event-tickets-12120764533
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Room to Write Short
Story Competition
The inaugural Room to Write Short Story Competition is open until the
1 August. The winning story will be published in the Northern Echo and
broadcast on listenupnorth.
To find out more go to the Room to
Write website.
Bait helps make Utopia a reality
 Participants from
Northumberland Church of England Academy celebrated the publication of their
own collection of stories this week. A group of Year 8’s interested in
dystopian fiction worked for 10 weeks with writers Stevie Ronnie and Lauren
Stafford to pen their own stories as part of New Writing North’s work with
Bait. The book, The Utopia
Accidents, was designed by Stevie and copies presented to
participants at a special celebration event at the Academy on Wednesday 16
July.
Bait, which is part of the national Creative
People and Places programme funded by Arts Council England and Northumberland
County Council, supports loads of exciting events and activities, inspiring
more people to create and take part in the arts in South East Northumberland.
For more information, visit www.baittime.to.
Keep in touch, sign up today
With the launch of the programme only a few
weeks away, have you signed up for the Durham Book Festival newsletter?
Starting just after the launch, we’ll be sending out weekly newsletters about
events at the book festival, news about the 2014 commissions, a few of our
chief executive’s personal recommendations and more. So if you haven’t already
signed up, go to www.durhambookfestival.com
and do it now.
Cuckoo Summer School for
Cramlington
Cuckoo Young Writers are looking for young people to join them in
Cramlington for a Cuckoo summer workshop. If you are aged 14-18 years and love
writing, join Carina Rodney, Amy Mackelden and John Challis at Cramlington
Library from 18-22 August, 11am-4pm, for a full week of free taster sessions
for different types of writing. Try your hand at everything from scriptwriting
to recording a poem. All the workshops are led by professional writers and will
be suitable for all young people, from beginners to more experienced writers.
For more information and for details of the summer schools in Newcastle and
Sunderland, see www.newwritingnorth.com.
To book your place on any of the Cuckoo summer
schools email cuckoo@newwritingnorth.com
or call 0191 204 8852.
Debbie Taylor launches Herring
Girl on the Tyne
 Mslexia editor Debbie Taylor
will be (literally) launching her novel Herring Girl on 7 August at a
party aboard the Fortuna in Newcastle upon Tyne. There will be cold bubbles,
fishy smackerels, a (brief) reading – and a return cruise from the Quayside to
the mouth of the River Tyne, where the 'historical paranormal crime' novel is
set. The boat has disabled access and a pay bar, plus an inside deck in case of
inclement weather. Embark at 5.30pm and the three-hour cruise will set off at
6pm sharp. Tickets: £5. For more information, or to invite Debbie to talk to
your book group or writing group, contact press@mslexia.co.uk.
Click here
to pre-order Herring Girl.
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Opportunities
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Writer in Residence:
Hampshire Arts and Museums Service
A two month residency is available in the Gosport Gallery in Hampshire
this autumn. The residency will be launched in association with ‘The
Artists Rifles: from Pre-Raphaelites to Passchendaele’. The writer will
be expected to engage with local residents, create new writing in
response to the exhibition and to support the local writing community.
The deadline for applications is 22 August. To find out more or to apply
go to their
website. |
Jobs
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One Day Creative Education:
Freelance creative play script writers
One Day is a Creative Education Company,
connecting children and learning with creativity and imagination.They are
looking for enthusiastic, motivated and passionate freelance creative play
script writers (preferably with experience of writing children’s scripts)
across the UK to deliver a range of creative and educational scripted one-day
drama workshops in schools. Please email your CV and covering letter, along
with any example work to steph@onedaycreative.com
or for more information see www.onedaycreative.com.
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Campaign Manager:
Youth Training Academy
The Youth Training Academy are looking for a Campaign Manager to run
the new Creative North campaign, engaging young people in the Creative
and Digital Media Sector in the North of England. The successful
candidate will be passionate, driven and have experience working in the
sector. The deadline for applications is 31 August. Go to Arts
Jobs to find out more. |
Inpress Ltd: Interim managing
director
Inpress is looking for a dynamic and
sales-driven leader for 2.5 days a week from September 2014 on a 12-month fixed
contract to further develop its publisher services, working with the staff in
the Newcastle office and a team of freelance sales people. Being based in
Newcastle is not necessary, but regular visits to the office will be essential.
For more information about the role, or to request a job pack, email enquiries@inpressbooks.co.uk or
see www.inpressbooks.co.uk/jobs.
Closing date for applications: Monday 4 August, midday.
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Mothers: where do you write?
Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s Writing
Motherhood project is going from strength to strength, with the
recent fourth event in the tour (with Hollie McNish, Rebecca Goss and Carolyn
in conversation with Ruth Stacey) going down a storm at the Ledbury Poetry
Festival. For the next blog post Carolyn wants to know about where mothers
write. In the bath? On the beach? In a designated office space? At the kitchen
table, or in the car during ballet lessons? How important is space for your
writing? Send pictures and details to carolynjesscooke@gmail.com by end
of July.
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The
Listening Post
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SI Leeds Literary Prize announces
longlist
Congratulations to all the writers longlisted
for the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize, the award for unpublished fiction by
Black and Asian writers. The six shortlisted authors from the list will be
announced in early September. For more information about the longlisted
writers, see http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/news/.
For the past few years, winners have attended the Northern Talent Summer Salon
that New Writing North organises for our own Northern Writers’ Awards winners
to meet the London publishing industry, so we hope to be getting to know a few
of the names on the list next summer.
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Opportunities
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Art with WORDS in St Helens
St Helens Council wants to commission an arts
organisation with experience of delivering drama/theatre/writing/arts
engagement activities with young people in non-traditional arts settings to
create WORDS. This project aims to engage with young people who utilise
libraries to capture their words, their stories and the narratives they want to
tell. These narratives will then be turned into performances and/or open mic
nights/events/sharings/podcasts/poetry/writing publications/blogs/websites as
decided by the organisation and the young people. To apply for this commission
you must be registered on The North West Procurement Portal – The Chest.
Once registered you can download the full commission brief here
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Write a Novel
Lit and Phil,
Newcastle: 10 weekly sessions from Wednesday 24 September, 6pm-8pm
A novel takes time and forethought. This course,
run by Kathleen Kenny and Ellen Phethean, is designed to work over a length of
time, keeping you on track to plan, plot and finish a first draft of a longer
piece of writing. Fee: £60. For more information and to book, call 0191 232
0192.
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