Sunday 30 November 2014

New Writing North newsletter

Here is the latest New Writing North newsletter, featuring jobs, events and the Northern Writers' Awards, that I thought my followers would be interested in:


21 November 2014
News from New Writing North
New Writing North news
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will be awarded to two new television writers; the Clare Swift Short Story Award, which will be awarded to the best new unpublished short story by a North East writer; the Unbound Award, which will offer one NWA winner the chance to publish their book with Unbound; and the New North Poets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
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
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/.
 
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
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
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
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.
Deadline for the next newsletter
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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