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Northern Writers’
Awards now open
 We are
delighted to announce that the Northern Writers’ Awards 2015 are now
open. Submission is via our website and will close on Monday 2 February
2015. This time around we have our biggest ever award fund worth £46,000,
and several new awards, including The Channel
4/Northumbria University Writing for Television Award, which will be
awarded to two new television writers; the Clare
Swift Short Story Award, which will be awarded to the best new
unpublished short story by a North East writer; the Unbound Award, which
will offer one NWA winner the chance to publish their book with Unbound;
and the New
North Poets Award, which will be awarded to up to six new poets.
For details of all the awards and to apply, see www.northernwritersawards.com. |
Northern Writers’
Awards Roadshows
We are going on the road! To launch this year’s application season for
the Northern Writers’ Awards, we’ll be visiting four northern cities to
meet writers who are thinking of entering the awards, or who just want
more information about them. Come and meet previous winners of the
Northern Writers’ Awards, members of the New Writing North team, script
editors and producers from the television production companies involved
in the new Writing for Television award at one of four events. Places are
free but booking is mandatory. All the details are at www.newwritingnorth.com.
Thursday 4
December, 4pm-6pm
The Beacon Centre, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, in association
with GemArts. With Lee Mason (commissioning editor, Channel 4) alongside
former Northern Writers’ Awards winners.
Monday 8
December, 4pm-6pm
The Orangery, Wakefield, in association with Beam. With Caroline Hollick
(head of development, RED Production Company) alongside former Northern
Writers’ Awards winners.
Wednesday 10
December, 4pm-6pm
Contact Theatre, Manchester. With Kam Odedra (script editor, RED
Production Company) alongside former Northern Writers’ Awards winners.
Thursday 8
January, 6pm-8pm
The Bluecoat, Liverpool, in association with Writing on the Wall. With Di
Burrows (producer of Hollyoaks)
alongside former Northern Writers’ Awards winners. |
People
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Colette
Bryce, who is on the shortlist for the 2014 Costa Poetry
Award with her collection The
Whole and Rain-domed Universe. Hooray for Stacey Sampson,
one of our Northern Writers’ Award winners in 2013. She has just signed
up with an agent, Joanna Swainson, at Hardman & Swainson. You can
read more about Stacey’s writing journey so far here.
And don’t miss a new novel by Marion
Husband, Now
the Day is Over, which is out now with Sacristy
Press. Marion won a Time to Write award with the proposal of this
book in 2009. |
Opportunities
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Emma Press call for
submissions
Deadline:
Wednesday 31 December
The Emma Press has launched a call for poems about ‘urban myths and
legends’ for a new anthology inspired by the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. For
full details, see http://theemmapress.com/2014/11/urban-myths-and-legends/. |
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Northumberland
academy seeks artist in residence
Deadline
Wednesday 3 December
The Northumberland Church of England Academy has put a call out for an
artist to take up residency within the academy. The artist may work
across art forms. Two days per week they will work on projects across the
academy, which includes five primary campuses, a centre for profound
learning difficulties, and a secondary campus. On the other three days
per week the artist will be free to work on their own practice, with a
studio space provided. For full details see www.ncea.org.uk. |
The Poetry School
micro-commissioning fund
The Poetry School has five sums of £750 to support poets, artists and
producers in the creation of ambitious new work. It is looking to fund
projects that explore new ways of creating or promoting poetry, projects
that create a little bubble of excitement and potential in the poetry
world. Your project can be solely poetry-focused, or it can combine
poetry with another art form or discipline. You can apply as an individual
or as part of a collective. You can compose poetry, write it, read it,
publish it, broadcast it, consume it or otherwise manipulate it. If
you’ve got an idea that you’d like to try out, but lack of funds has
prevented you up to this point, they want to hear from you. Deadline
Wednesday 10 December. For full details, see http://campus.poetryschool.com/lo-behold-poetry-school-micro-commission-fund/. |
Jobs
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Our partners at Writers'
Centre Norwich are advertising for three jobs at the
moment: director of communications, a programme manager, and a programme
assistant. Full details and deadlines are at www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/AboutUs/jobvacancies.aspx.
Liverpool’s
Everyman and Playhouse Theatres are looking for a
literary associate for six months’ maternity cover. £24-27k pro rata,
deadline Monday 24 November. For details see www.everymanplayhouse.com.
Opera North
in Leeds has a vacancy for a director of marketing and communications,
salary negotiable, deadline Thursday 4 December. For details see www.operanorth.co.uk.
Liverpool’s
Bluecoat seeks a venue manager (£22-25k) and a deputy
front of house manager (£20-22k). Both vacancies close on Monday 1
December. For details see www.thebluecoat.org.uk.
Or if you fancy something further afield… Melbourne Writers Festival
is currently recruiting a program manager. This full-time position pays
$73k (AUS) and will commence in February 2015. Deadline Friday 12
December. For full details see www.mwf.com.au. |
Workshops
and courses
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Fun with Words
Ashington
Library: Saturday 6 December, 9.30am-12.30pm
Fun with Words is a workshop taking place at Ashington Library,
organised by Women’s Health Advice Centre, led by Pru Heathcote and
designed to put the fun back into creative writing. From writing your own
magic spell to creative word play, the objective is writing for
enjoyment. Men and women are welcome. Tickets £6/£3, enrolment essential.
Contact Lisa or Amanda on 01670 853977 or admin@whac.uk.com. |
Screaming Steel: Art,
War and Trauma 1914-1918
Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle: Saturday 13 December, 2pm-4pm
Sheree Mack is facilitating a series of creative writing workshops as
part of a project,
Beyond the Western Front: the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Response
to the First World War. On 13 December, she looks at the Screaming Steel
exhibition, which explores the creative response to WWI that resulted in
some of the most important 20th century art and literature. Find out how
artists and writers such as Paul Nash, CR Nevinson, Siegfried Sassoon and
Wilfred Owen used their extraordinary talent to capture the trauma of
their experiences in work that resonates with us to this day. Tickets £5.
Book via email at beyondthewesternfront@gmail.com. |
Special
offer for subscribers
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Get Santa at Northern
Stage!
 Northern
Stage is offering our subscribers a discounted family ticket to its
Christmas production, Get
Santa!, for the reduced price of £50.
Every year Holly has been nice not naughty, she has written Santa a
letter, left milk, cookies and a carrot for Rudolph and asked for the one
thing she really, really, really wants. Every year, Santa gave her toys
and books and chocolate and all the other rubbish she didn’t want. So
this year, on Christmas Eve, in the dead of night, when everyone is
asleep, she’s going to Get Santa. This jolly Christmas play which runs
from 1-27 December at Northern Stage, promises songs, slapstick, puppetry
and fun for children aged seven and over and their families.
A family ticket is for up to four people, and the party must include
at least one child. Enter the code NWN when booking online or quoted over
the phone at the box office on 0191 230 5151. See www.northernstage.co.uk
for full details. |
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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 olivia@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 1
December.
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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