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New
Writing North news
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Writers! Fill in our
questionnaire and be in with a chance to win £250
New Writing North has launched a questionnaire for writers who live
and work in the North of England. Information gleamed from the
questionnaire will help NWN to plan our work and support for writers over
the next three years and may directly influence new funding streams that
we hope to launch in the future. It will also allow us to understand more
about the needs and demographics of writers in the North of England which
will help those that fund us to recognise the needs of the sector.
The questionnaire asks for information on how writers earn income,
their skills development needs, professional development issues, and how
writers are using digital media. We’d be very grateful if you could take
the time to fill it in (it should take no more than 10 minutes of your
time) and share it with your writer friends and contacts. When the
questionnaire closes on 31 January, one winning writer, picked at random
from those who completed the questionnaire, will win a £250 voucher for a
retailer of their choice. Please note that you can fill in the
questionnaire without giving your name and address (though you can’t be
entered for the prize draw if you do so).
Take part at https://newwritingnorth.wufoo.eu/forms/survey-of-writers-2015/.
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A final stocking
filler from New Writing North
We hope you have been enjoying the little gifts we have sent you over
the past couple of weeks. The final one comes out of a rather lovely
poetry afternoon we hosted at Durham Book Festival in conjunction with
the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at Durham University. The final act of
the day was our Festival Laureate, the multi-award winning poet Paul
Farley, who wrote a poem especially for the festival.
Click on the
gift to hear from Paul.
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Northern Writers’
Awards 2015
’Tis the season to dust off your manuscript, finally get your
collection in order, or simply pluck up the courage to submit your entry
to the Northern Writers’ Awards. With £46,000 in prizes up for grabs,
from mentoring and support to cash awards, the Northern Writers’ Awards
can be a massive boost to your career. The deadline is Monday 2 February
and application is online only. See www.northernwritersawards.com.
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Northern Writers’
Awards: final roadshow
We have visited Newcastle, Manchester and Wakefield, and the last stop
on our tour will take place at Liverpool’s Bluecoat on Thursday 8
January. At the event, you will find out more about applying to any of
our awards, including the new Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing
for Television Award. Speakers include New Writing North programme
director Anna Disley, Di Burrows, producer at Lime Pictures, literary
agent Oli Munson and former Northern Writers’ Award winners Mari Hannah
and Zaffar Kunial. Tickets are free, but should be booked in advance at https://nwa14liverpool.eventbrite.co.uk#sthash.ZQuDpH9F.dpuf.
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All change at New
Writing North
After nearly seven years, marketing and communications manager Olivia
Chapman is leaving New Writing North. Keeper of this newsletter, amongst
a great many other things, Olivia has been central to our organisation
and will be hugely missed. Stepping into the role of marketing and
communications manager is Laura Fraine, who can be reached at laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com.
We are also welcoming back Claire Malcolm, chief executive of New
Writing North, who returns to work full-time from January.
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In memory of Clare
Swift
The Northern Writers’ Awards welcome a new addition this year – The
Clare Swift Short Story Award – worth £1,000 and awarded to the best
unpublished short story written by an author based in the North East. The
award, which was the idea of her friends at her book group, has been
created in memory of Clare Swift (nee Bartley), of Whitley Bay, who was
just 47 when she died in 2013 following a short illness. There was a
lovely piece about Clare in yesterday’s Journal.
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People
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Chloe
Daykin, a 2014 Northern Writers’ Awards winner, who has
been longlisted for BBC SCRIPTROOM 8 with her play, Janice Hartley is a Witch.
Guy Mankowski’s
new book, How I Left
the National Grid, is a thriller set in the North East music
scene. ‘Anyone who remembers Melody Maker, or who attended indie nights
in clubs strewn with Snakebite, will fall in love with this book
immediately,’ says the Huffington
Post. Consider us sold.
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Opportunities
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CBBC New Voices
Initiative
CBBC is setting up an intensive, skills-based programme designed to
give emerging writers valuable insights into writing for an ongoing
children’s TV series, covering all stages of the scripting process with
input from experienced writers, producers, script editors and executive
producers. The aim is to find and support writers so they kickstart an
ongoing relationship with the CBBC drama team.
The project lasts around six months. Up to 15 writers will be invited to
attend a ‘Writing Children’s Television’ workshop at MediaCityUK next
February. Travel, accommodation and hospitality will be provided and
writers will be paid a workshop attendance fee. From this group, between
3-6 writers will be selected to follow the scripting process of a CBBC
show as well as completing writing exercises. The emphasis at all times
is on developing the practical craft of the participating writers, it is
not to generate ideas for any particular show. It is anticipated that
there will be up to four days of face to face training during this
period, alongside contact via email.
For more information, including how to apply, see www.newwritingnorth.com/news_details-cbbc-new-voices-initiative-details-3182.html.
Deadline: Monday 12 January.
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Creative Case NORTH
Explorations
Zendeh Theatre Company is managing applications for Creative Case
NORTH Explorations, an Arts Council programme of North area sector-led
activity, which includes exploring the Creative Case for Diversity. The
programme seeks to explore partnership models between creators and
facilitators of artistic and participatory practice. They are looking for
six partnerships. Deadline: 4 January. Full brief is available to
download from www.zendeh.com/blog/#CCNExplorations.
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BBC Short Story Award
with BBC and Booktrust
It’s ten years since the launch of the BBC Short Story Award, which
was inspired by the New Writing North campaign to ‘Save the Short Story’.
To celebrate, the BBC and Booktrust are launching the new BBC Young
Writers’ Award 2015. The award is open to young writers in the UK aged
between 14 and 18 to submit short stories of up to 1,000 words on any
topic. Deadline: Wednesday 25 February. For full details, click here.
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DRIFT 2015
ZU-UK is currently accepting applications for the DRIFT International
residency programme in East London. This is ZU-UK’s 16th edition of the
international residency, which will be coordinated by ZU’s artistic
directors, researchers and guest artists. DRIFT is a multi-disciplinary
programme that offers creative, collaborative and reflexive methodologies
to further the participant’s projects through mentoring, task-based
experiments and professional development sessions. They invite
expressions of interest from artists and innovators working in immersive
and experimental theatre and transmedia and digital story telling, among
other types of practice. The sessions will take place on Mondays in
February and March in London. Deadline: 7 January. For full details,
email thedriftproject@gmail.com.
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Inky Needles
Following the success of The Body Modern, Inky Needles are looking for
submissions of their next print journal. Writing can include
philosophical and political essays, articles of literary and critical
theory, poetry, flash and short fiction, as well as photographs, cut-outs
and illustrations based around the themes of Celebrity and Speed.
Deadline: 31 January. For further information, see http://inkyneedles.com/in-print/celebrity-speed-call-for-submissions/.
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CWA Margery Allingham
Short Story Competition
The annual CWA Margery Allingham Short Story Competition has been
around since 2013 and was set up to celebrate the short story and Margery
Allingham’s contribution to crime writing. The competition is open to
everyone, both published and unpublished authors and is for unpublished
work of up to 3,500 words. Entry costs £10. Deadline: 16 March. For
details, see http://thecwa.co.uk/debuts/short-story-competition/.
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Jobs
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The British and
International Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech in
Cheshire seeks trustees and a board director. In particular, they
are looking for experience of managing/governing a membership
organisation, experience of the arts education sector and to increase the
diversity of the board. These are part-time unpaid positions. Deadline:
31 December. For more information contact Terry Luddington at terry@federationoffestivals.org.uk.
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The
Listening Post
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Phantoms at the Phil
The Lit and
Phil, Newcastle: Tuesday 6 January, 7pm
Gail-Nina Anderson and Sean O’Brien’s evening of supernatural tales
has become a classic in the North East. They will be joined on the night
by a special guest, the award-winning novelist Lesley Glaister. Tickets:
£5/£3. For more details, see www.litandphil.org.uk.
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Type Motion
FACT,
Liverpool: until 8 February
This exhibition features over 200 examples of text and typography being
used alongside the moving image, celebrating the creative possibilities
of opening up uses of text far beyond print, it seeks to showcase not
only the importance of writing, but how bringing it to life with movement
is an artform in itself. Free entry. For more information, see www.fact.co.uk.
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Workshops
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Creative writing with
Kathleen Kenny
Red Squirrel Press author Kathleen Kenny is holding creative writing
classes in the New Year. Monday morning sessions will be held in South
Shields, Wednesday afternoons will be held at the Lit and Phil in
Newcastle. If you’re interested in attending, email Kathleen at kbkenny1899@yahoo.co.uk for
more information.
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Creative Up North
A new regular writing class is starting at the Creative Up North Hub
in North Shields with sessions on Saturday 10 January, Saturday 14
February and Saturday 14 March between 2pm and 5pm. The classes are
suitable for all abilities, and writers of all descriptions, including
script, poetry and blogging. Drinks will be provided and places must be
booked in advance. Cost: £5 per session. For more information, see www.creativeupnorth.co.uk.
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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 first newsletter of 2015
is 12 January. The next edition of The Listening Post covering February's
events will
be published in late January so if there are any events that you would
like to submit for inclusion you will need to send information to Laura
by 20 January.
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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