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New
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A Rendezvous with
Julia Darling ten years on
 New Writing
North is working with Julia Darling’s friends and family, the BBC, and
Live Theatre to mount a series of events in 2015 to honour the tenth
anniversary of her death. There will be more news about events in the new
year but writers who knew Julia might want to book
tickets now for Rendevous
2, as it’s on sale and tickets are already selling well. The
event will be an evening celebrating Julia Darling’s writing, featuring
poetry, fiction, extracts from plays, and live music performed by many of
Julia’s long-time collaborators, performers and friends including The
Poetry Virgins.
New Writing North will also be announcing the winner of the inaugural
Julia Darling Travel Fellowship, a new award to support a writer to
travel and write, which we will be launching in January. If you knew
Julia Darling and would like to create an event that could form part of
the celebrations please get in touch by emailing claire@newwritingnorth.com.
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We’re on the road
Our first Northern
Writers’ Awards roadshow took place last night in Newcastle. It
was great to see so many new faces there and to see such an interest in
the awards. If you couldn’t make it to Newcastle, you can still catch us
in Wakefield (8 December), Manchester (10 December) and Liverpool (8
January). Due to overwhelming demand we have just released more tickets
for the previously sold out Manchester and Wakefield events. Catch them
while you can! Booking links are at www.newwritingnorth.com/news_details-northern-writers-awards-roadshows-december-and-january-details-3166.html.
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Cuckoo Christmas
Party
 Celebrate
the end of a bumper year for Cuckoo with live music from Lisbon and
Suntrapp and comedy from Your Aunt Fanny, plus a host of readings and
screenings from Cuckoo Young Writers. Open to all existing and aspiring
Cuckoos, admission is FREE. Get your tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cuckoo-christmas-party-tickets-14445391555.
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Cuckoo end-of-term
sharing
Young writers in our Sunderland and Cramlington groups are all set for
their end-of-term sharing sessions this Saturday 6 December. The
Cramlington group, which meets weekly at Cramlington library with Sheree
Mack and Lizzie Nixon, will be showing their floems (original film-based
poems) and handmade zines. Over in Sunderland, our group has been working
with Martin Longstaff, where they have created an exhibition of poetry
and photography, which will be on display at Pop Recs.
All our Cuckoo
groups are free to attend and are open for new members. If you fancy
joining them, get in touch with Amy Mitchell at amy@newwritingnorth.com.
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A little gift from
New Writing North
It's been an exciting, busy year for New Writing North and Durham Book
Festival and suddenly we find ourselves feeling quite festive.
Click on the present to open your first gift from New Writing North
and Durham Book Festival.
We hope you enjoy it! Do let us know what you think @NewWritingNorth and @DurhamBookFest
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People
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Congratulations
Moth author Rebecca
Muddiman, who took part in our 2014 Read Regional
campaign, has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Award. The award is
based on nominations from librarians around the world. Well done,
Rebecca!
Congratulations to Alice
Allen and Kathleen
Bainbridge, who won first and second place in the
inaugural Flambard Poetry Prize. The Flambard is to be awarded annually
in recognition of Flambard Press, which operated for 20 years and closed
in 2013. It will award a group of five poems submitted by a poet who has
not yet published a single-authored collection.
Happy publication day to Pauline
Plummer, whose first short story collection, Dancing With a Stranger,
came out this week. Join her at Middlesbrough Central Library on Saturday
13 December, 3pm, for coffee, cakes and readings.
There is an excellent selection on the 2015 World Book Night list
including some of our favourites: David
Almond’s Skellig,
Annabel Pitcher’s
My Sister Lives on the
Mantelpiece, and Essential
Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy, which represents
Bloodaxe’s seminal collection. You can sign up to be a World Book Night
volunteer and give away free books at www.worldbooknight.org/get-involved.
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Opportunities
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Ted Hughes Award
The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry is now open for
recommendations until 7 January 2015. The award recognises innovation in
poetry and highlights the ways in which poets engage with other art
forms. The judges for 2014 are Julia Copus, Kei Miller and Grayson Perry.
Recommendations can be made by members of the Poetry Society. For
details, see www.poetrysociety.org.uk.
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Opportunities at
Butcher’s Dog
Poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog is
open for submissions for issue 5. There is no particular theme, they are
just looking for high quality work. You are strongly advised to read the
magazine before submitting. Send no more than three unpublished poems by
15 February 2015. Submission is online only at https://butchersdog.submittable.com/submit.
The magazine is also looking for a guest editor for issue 5.
Applications are invited from experienced poets who are interested in
developing their editorial skills. No experience of editing a poetry
magazine is necessary. The guest editor role is unpaid, but expenses are
covered. Email degna@butchersdogmagazine.com
for more information on how to apply. Deadline 1 January 2015.
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Scholarships for
emerging artists
Sky Academy and IdeasTap are offering five arts scholarships of
£30,000 to artists aged 18-30. Including a programme of expert mentoring,
the scholarships are intended to help emerging talent from a range of
disciplines to develop their work and take their careers to the next
level. You must be an IdeasTap member to apply. For more information, see
www.ideastap.com.
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Benchmark creative
writing competition
North East writer Rachel Cochrane and Willow Burn Hospice are running
a creative writing competition inspired by Rachel’s online radio play Benchmark, which
takes its theme from the ‘In Loving Memory’ plaques found on benches. The
competition is about celebrating the living and expressing the good
things in life, with a first prize of a bench with your own personalised
plaque. Judges include Wendy Robertson, Dr Philip Le Dune and Sue Spencer.
Closing date 19 January 2015. For competition details, see www.rachelcochrane.com/about-benchmark-writing-comp/.
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Create by Arts
Council England
If you work in the arts or are interested in different perspectives on
the value of art and culture, don’t miss Arts Council England’s new
publication, Create,
which you can read online at www.artscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/value-arts-and-culture/state-arts/create/.
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Professional
development for librettists and lyricists
BOOK Music & Lyrics is the country’s only professional development
laboratory for musical theatre practitioners. It is now open for applications
for its First Year Composer/Lyricist Workshop and its Librettist
Workshop, which are taught by West End professionals and run from March
2015 in central London. Deadline 31 January 2015. For more details, see www.bookmusicandlyrics.com.
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Jobs
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Niddfest
Literary Festival is a new Yorkshire Dales literary
festival under the patronage of Carol Ann Duffy, which looks to celebrate
nature in writing. It has a vacancy for an assistant curator. This is an
unpaid voluntary position. Deadline 15 December, for details see http://niddfest.com/2014/11/21/niddfest-is-looking-for-an-assistant-curator-2/.
Artlink
in Hull is looking for an arts development and heritage project manager.
£19-£20.5k pro rata, 21 hours per week. Deadline 9 December. For details
see www.artlink.uk.net.
National Youth
Choirs of Great Britain, whose headquarters are in
Durham, is seeking a marketing manager. May be based elsewhere but must
travel to office regularly. £32-£35k. Deadline 10 December. For details
see www.nycgb.net/about-nycgb/job-vacancies.
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The
Listening Post
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Telling Tales
Blakes Café,
Grey St, Newcastle: Wednesday 10 December, 7.30pm
Telling Tales is back after a brilliant launch event which hosted 12
writers. The December outing of the new spoken word night will feature
guest story-tellers Pauline Plummer, Sheree Mack, Simma, Ye Min and
Yvonne Young, plus open mic. Fancy a spot on the bill? If you have a
tale to tell in five minutes, email tellingtales@radikalwords.com.
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Magma Poetry launch
Lit &
Phil, Newcastle: Thursday 11 December, 7pm
Don’t miss the launch of Magma
Poetry magazine issue 60, edited by Rob A Mackenzie and Tony
Williams with special guest reader Sean O’Brien. There will also readings
by Peter Armstrong, Janette Ayachi, Tessa Berring, Carole Bromley,
Marjorie Lotfi Gill and James McGonigal. A bar will be available for
refreshments. Entry is free but book a place at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-60-launch-at-the-lit-phil-newcastle-tickets-14499846431.
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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 laurafaine@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the final newsletter of 2014
is 15 December. The next edition of The Listening Post will be combined
with this newsletter so if you have events that you would like to submit
for inclusion you will need to send information to Laura by 15 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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