Ilkley Literature Festival's Bradford Young Writers Programme launches this month, with Michelle Scally-Clarke, author, playwright, performer, creative writing and performance facilitator and Becky Cherriman, writer, performer and creative writing facilitator. The programme is free and an excellent resource for any young writer, full details below:
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Join Bradford Young Writers Group
Ilkley Literature Festival, in association with Bradford Libraries,
is launching a new writing group for young people in Bradford.
Building on the success of our Ilkley based group and Words in the
City, Bradford
Young Writers will meet weekly on Wednesdays 4.30 – 6pm
during term time at Bradford City Library, starting on 24 February. The
group will give
young people aged 12 – 18, who love writing, the
opportunity to develop their skills and meet other teenagers who
share their interest. Sessions
are free and snacks will be provided.
The 90 minute sessions will include writing exercises, games and
plenty of fun to help inspire teenagers, whether they want to write
poetry, short stories, novels or even songs and no prior experience
is needed.
Bradford Young Writers will be led by Michelle Scally-Clarke,
author, playwright, performer, creative writing and performance
facilitator and Becky
Cherriman writer, performer and creative writing
facilitator, who have led the Festival’s popular Ilkley Young Writers
group since 2009.
Wednesday
evenings in term time
from 4.30
- 6pm
starting
Wednesday 24 February 2016
FREE with
snacks
at
Bradford
City Library
City Park,
Bradford, BD1 1SP
5 mins from Bradford Interchange bus and train station
Any queries or to let us know you are coming- phone: 01943 601210
email: laura@ilkleyliterarturefestival.org.uk
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Support Our Work in Schools
Working with
Young People in schools as well as at our writing groups in Ilkley
and Bradford is a very important part of what we do and we deliver an
extensive programme of workshops, author visits and events across
Bradford and Leeds throughout the year, not just in October.
Ilkley Literature Festival is a charity and a one off or monthly
donatation would help us extend our work with young people,
kick start a new children's writing group and encourage the next
generation of writers.
Our most recent project was aimed at engaging pupils with Shakespeare
in a new way and saw pupils at Allerton High in Leeds, Dixon King's
Academy in Bradford and Ilkley Grammar performing Shakespeare themed
flashmobs around their schools with the help of Chicken
Shop Shakespeare. You can read more about this project,
including some of the poetry written by students here.
As well as the launch of Bradford Young Writers Group, over the next
few months we will be working on another student
led event for primary school pupils and taking authors and
poets in to schools to deliver workshops for students of all ages.
If you
would like to help support our development work, you can donate here.
We are
grateful for all the donations we receive and they make a real
difference to the work we do and the lives of young people in the
region.
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The SI
Leeds Literary Prize is Open for Entries
SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial prize for unpublished
fiction by Black
and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over.
Past winners include
Minoli Salgardo (2012) and Kit de Waal (2014
Reader's Choice Winner)
The prize is open for entries until 30 April 2016 and the
winner will be announced at
Ilkley Literature Festival 2016.
More information.
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The
Writing Squad are Recruiting
Every two years 30 talented young writers, aged 16 - 21 join The
Writing Squad and recruitment is now open for 2016.
Squad members work with tutors, professional writers and squad
grads to improve and develop their writing skills.
The Writing Squad is designed to fit around your life so if you’re
aged 16-21
years old, and you’re from, or live, work or study
in the North
of England – apply now.
More
information.
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Grand
Literary Quiz
The Grove Bookshop is hosting a literary quiz night as a fundraiser
for Reading
Matters, a Bradford based charity supporting young
people with reading.
The quiz takes place on Thursday
25 February from 7pm and
is being held at Friends
of Ham in Ilkley.
Test your knowledge on all things bookish while helping young
people to reach their potential.
There will be prizes too!
Tickets
£5
Email
for more information.
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