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Introducing Durham
Moot
 We are
incredibly excited to be programming the first ever Durham Moot. We hope
you will be able to join us this 12 July at Palace Green Library, Durham,
for an afternoon of debate and discussion about how to create a more
just, egalitarian and better society. We’re bringing leading speakers
together from academic, cultural, community and council backgrounds, as
well as journalists Owen Jones, Alex Niven and Ian Wylie, for a lively
discussion about where the North goes from here.
Why ‘Moot’ though? Well, it’s an old English word that, in its
adjectival form suggests something subject to debate, dispute, or
uncertainty, and as a noun refers, historically, to an assembly held for
debate or a regular gathering of people having a common interest. It
neatly sums up what we hope to achieve.
To book online see http://durhambookfestival.com/durham-moot/.
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Julia Darling Travel
Fellowship crowd-funding site
In our last newsletter we mentioned that we were hoping to crowd-fund
for future years of the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship. Several people
have contacted us because they would like to donate, but not by text
message. We have now set up a JustGiving page where you can donate online
at http://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/newwritingnorth/juliadarling.
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Internship
opportunity
New Writing North is offering an internship opportunity, open to those
who have graduated from Northumbria University in the last two years. The
successful candidate will work 25 hours per week, assisting with
day-to-day administration, including general office work, as well as
supporting a varied programme of projects and events, including our
celebrated Cuckoo Young Writers programme, Durham Book Festival and the
Northern Writers’ Awards. Deadline for applications: Monday 6 July.
Interview date: Wednesday 22 July. Start date: Monday 24 August.
For more information see www.newwritingnorth.com/about-intern-wanted-page-2834.html.
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Cuckoo Young Writers
summer schools
 Cuckoo
Young Writers is looking for young writers who want to get inspired over
the summer holidays. They are running two summer schools in Amble and
Cramlington for young people aged 12-19. And they are totally free.
In Amble, young people will be working with playwright Carina Rodney
to work on scripts and monologues, which will be performed on stage at
Alnwick Playhouse by their youth theatre in the autumn.
In Cramlington, Cuckoo is offering a pick’n’ mix summer school, where
young people can sign up for a day of writing flash fiction using social
media, protest poems or songwriting with Martin Longstaff (AKA The Lake
Poets).
Cramlington
summer school
Cramlington Library,
11am-4pm
12 August: Writing stories using social media with Carina Rodney
13 August: Protest poetry with Paul Summers
14 August: Songwriting with Martin Longstaff
Amble
Scriptwriting summer school
Amble Library,
10.30am-3.30pm
17-19 August: Scriptwriting with Carina Rodney and Emily Wiseman
For more details and to sign up, email laura@newwritingnorth.com.
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Young Writers City:
Writing summer schools in Newcastle
Young Writers City is Cuckoo Young Writers’ sister project, which is
taking place in three communities in Newcastle. We want to get more young
people from Newcastle involved in creative projects and give them the
chance to experience all types of writing. We will provide opportunities
and funding to support young people in making and sharing their work and
shout out about what a great place Newcastle is to be a young writer.
To get us started we are launching a series of Young Writers City
workshops over the summer in Walker, West End and Walbottle. Like Cuckoo
Young Writers, they are for young people aged 12-19 years and what’s more
it’s all FREE.
You can drop in for one session, or stay for the whole thing, and
there is something different happening every day.
You can keep it short with flash fiction or mini poems, develop your
script-writing skills, get dark with your fiction, or have a go at making
your own short film/poem about where you live. All with professional
writers. It’s free. It’s fun. And it’s somewhere near you.
Thursday 6
August-Saturday 8 August: Outer West Library, Denton Way, NE5 2QZ
Thursday 13
August-Friday 14 August: Walker Activity Dome Library, NE6 3BR
Friday 21 and
Saturday 22 August: West End Library, Condercum Road, NE4 9JH
For full details see www.newwritingnorth.com/young-young-writers-city-page-2836.html.
Spaces are limited. To book a free place email Amy Mitchell at amy@newwritingnorth.com or call
0191 204 8852.
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Statement from New
Writing North
Earlier this week American writer Judith Turner-Yamamoto brought to
our attention her belief that her story, A Mercy, which was shortlisted for the
2011 Manchester Fiction Prize, had been plagiarised by North East writer
Sheree Mack. The Mack story in question, The Tracks, was commissioned by New
Writing North and published in a free publication that we distributed in
the region in 2012 and was subsequently published in The Journal.
The case Turner-Yamamoto made was a compelling one and having taken
appropriate action to address the matter with Sheree Mack, we are
confident in our conclusion that Mack had taken ideas from the premise
and structure, and some of the language, directly from Turner-Yamamoto’s
story.
This is a regrettable situation for both writers. We have this week
taken action to inform our project partners of this issue and to pulp the
remaining copies of the publication that are in our stock. We are in
contact with Turner-Yamamoto to ensure that she is fully informed of our
actions.
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People
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Top of our reading list this week is The Weightless World, the debut novel
by Manchester author Anthony
Trevelyan. Here’s the premise: Raymond Ess is fifty-six, a
senior executive, an important man. I’m twenty-eight, his personal
assistant, not important at all. We work for Resolute Aviation and we’ve
come to India to buy an antigravity machine. Sounds great,
doesn’t it? Out now with Galley Beggar Press. For more information, see: http://galleybeggar.co.uk/store/books/weightless-world.
Familiar faces abound at Dorothy Wordsworth’s Canada Day Poetry Party
on 1 July at The Wordsworth Trust, as northern poets Eileen Pun, Emily Hasler and
Penny Boxall
join past Northern Writers’ Award winners Kim Moore, Polly Atkin and Andrew Forster,
along with Canadian counterparts Karen Solie (published by Bloodaxe),
Damian Rogers, Wanda O’Connor and Megan Fernandes. They will read from
and discuss contemporary poetry, and make links between literary
communities in Britain and Canada. For more information, go to: http://pollyatkin.com/dorothy-wordsworths-canada-day-poetry-party/.
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Opportunities
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National Literacy
Trust Poetry Prize
The National Literacy Trust has just launched a new poetry prize with
Bloomsbury Publishing. The winning poem will feature in a poster campaign
in schools across the country. There is an entry fee of £8 for the first
poem and £4 for subsequent poems, with all proceeds going to the work of
the National Literacy Trust. The prize closes on 31 August with an
announcement of the shortlist on 2 October, National Poetry Day. For
further details see www.literacytrust.org.uk/poetryprize.
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PhD research project
at Northumbria University
New Writing North is collaborating with Northumbria University to
offer a research project on the impact of cultural participation on
building sustainable networks of literature activities for families in
communities with little access to the arts.
This studentship offers the candidate an opportunity to carry out a
piece of research on New Writing North’s touring programme of theatre and
arts activities for under 7s and their families. This programme is
positioned in a growing body of research that claims family engagement in
educational activities enables parents to better support learning for
young children. The provision of arts programmes for communities
marginalised from cultural provision contributes to learning environments
that support children’s communication, language and literacy development.
This is particularly evident for children from lower-income backgrounds.
In times of austerity, as cultural participation offers decrease and
community facilities come under budget pressures, the cultural sector is
seeking to invent new models of partnership collaboration that protect
access to arts and culture in areas of low participation.
The successful candidate will be interested in research methods that
span education, social science and creative writing. You will investigate
how an audience development model of cultural participation achieves
educational and societal impacts for participants, and supports the
development of a sustainable infrastructure of cultural participation in
areas of disadvantage and deprivation. The research will also consider
whether an emerging partnership model, between New Writing North and
libraries and community centres, has an impact on sustainability of and
participation in arts and cultural programmes.
The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK
rates (in 2014/15 this is £13,863 pa); tuition fees and research and
training support budget. Deadline for applications is Friday 24 July.
Informal enquiries regarding this studentship should be made to Dr
Caroline Murphy at Caroline.Murphy@northumbria.ac.uk.
To apply, see: www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=64150.
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Jobs
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Following the successful completion of core funding agreements with
Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council, Queen’s Hall Arts
is looking for talented
individuals to join its board of trustees. Currently
there are opportunities and challenges facing the organisation, which
make it an exciting time for anyone wishing to be involved in the arts in
Hexham and the region and to play a significant part in fostering the
wellbeing of the community. In particular they would welcome interest
from people with expertise in marketing and sales and from artform
specialists. They are also keen to welcome anyone who feels they have the
interest, skills, talents, imagination and desire to contribute to the
board. Send a short letter of interest and CV to geof.keys@queenshall.co.uk
by Monday 6 July.
For further information see www.queenshall.co.uk/about-us/recruitment/.
Arvon,
the writing charity, has a vacancy for a learning and participation coordinator.
The L&P team currently manages a programme of residential and
city-based creative writing courses for schools, young people and adult
groups across the UK. The post-holder will ideally be a confident and
experienced individual, and will be working in Arvon’s national office,
based at the vibrant Free Word Centre in Farringdon, London. Closing
date: Monday 22 June, 5pm. Interviews will be held in London on Wednesday
1 July. To apply, see www.arvon.org/about-us/arvon-jobs.
Newcastle’s Tyneside
Cinema has five job opportunities available, including four new roles in their learning
and participation scheme (lead moving artist, programme
producer, learning and participation manager and learning and programme
assistant). Successful applicants will be helping to deliver the ACE/C4
Random Acts programme across the North. They are also recruiting a head of marketing and
communications. See www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/about-us/jobs
for details and how to apply.
Creative Access is advertising for a sales and marketing intern to work
at Inpress Books.
The chosen candidate will gain an overview of the book industry supply
chain and will learn how the sales and marketing department operates in
the publishing sector. All roles advertised through Creative Access are
only open to UK nationals from a black, Asian or ethnic minority
background. Closing date 25 June. For full details see http://creativeaccess.org.uk/opportunities/sales-and-marketing-intern-at-inpress.
Writers’ Centre
Norwich is looking for three new enthusiastic members of
its team, including a learning
and participation programme manager, a communications officer, and a
business development assistant. For more information, see:
www.writerscentrenorwich.org.uk/AboutUs/jobvacancies.aspx.
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Workshops
and networking
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Writing group invites
new members
A writing group that meets on the first Friday of the month in
Jesmond, Newcastle, is inviting new members to join. They describe
themselves as a friendly, mixed group, in which the members give
constructive feedback on each other’s poetry, prose and plays. If you are
interested in joining, email Rachael Marsh at rachaelmarshliterary@gmail.com
for more information.
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Libraries R.I.P.:
Reading is Power
Newcastle City
Library: Saturday, 4 July, 10am-2pm
Youth Libraries Group North East are holding a free event, aimed at
all those with a interest in children’s literature, children’s libraries
and reading. With guest speaker Dan Smith, there will be discussions of
relevant issues, opportunities to network, and cake. Book online at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/libraries-rip-reading-is-power-tickets-17082983664.
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Digital artists
drop-in
Campus North,
Sunco House, 5 Carliol Square, Newcastle: Wednesday 1 July, 5pm
Helix Arts and Campus North are holding a networking event for
participatory artists and technology start-ups. Drop-in with a
project/proposal you would like to share, and enjoy a glass of something
cold whilst discussing your latest idea with like-minded others. To RSVP
contact: catherine.hearne@helixarts.com.
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Miscellany
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Blog posts about
Newcastle Writing Conference
People are talking about us on the internet! Since Newcastle Writing
Conference took place nearly a fortnight ago, we’ve been reading blog
posts responding to the event. Here are just a few of our favourites:
“Witty and
truthful, [Meg Rosoff’s] speech was one of my favourite parts of the day,
inspiring us all to just forget what we think we ‘should’ be doing and
just write what we want to.”
Cuckoo
reviewer Charlotte Hall
“As someone who
just enjoys scribbling stuff down and daydreaming I had never even
considered this side of writing!”
Juice
Festival blogger Hannah Wilkin
"I’ve had a
fairly extensive break from twitter and blogging… and this talk really
gave me some motivation to re-engage and enjoy these platforms…"
From
My Little Notepad, a writing blog by
Becca Brown
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