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Young
Writers’ City: stars of the future
We’re incredibly proud of our young
writers from Excelsior Academy, who have been working
with writers Bob Beagrie, Fred Phethean and Rowan McCabe on poetry,
spoken word, rap and beat-boxing.
This spring they created three
short films with a fantastically talented filmmaker, Adam Opie, who
is just 17 himself and who brilliantly captures some of the joy and
pain of teenage
life in Newcastle’s West End. Take a look...
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Crime
Story: Early Bird offer ends on Tuesday 10 May
 If
you’re planning to come to Crime Story 2016 on Saturday 11 June,
book soon to take
advantage of our Early Bird ticket offer (£79 instead
of £99), which finishes on 10 May.
The ticket price includes five
panel events, two
workshops, lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
You can also request a one-to-one
session with one of our experts.
Find the full programme and book now at www.crimestory.co.uk
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Vacancy:
group leader for new Cuckoo Young Writers Group
 New
Writing North is
recruiting a group leader for our new Cuckoo Young
Writers group in Durham. The role of the group leader is to work with
the group’s lead writer to creatively direct the group, lead sessions
and support the young people (age 12-19) taking part. We are looking
for applicants who
have experience of working with young people, a
background in creative writing and are keen to develop their skills in
these areas.
The weekly
Cuckoo groups will take place from 10 September on
Saturdays in term time, 11am-1pm, at Gala Theatre in Durham. The
fee is £50 per session. There will also be a summer school during the
week of the 1st August 2016, which the group leader should be available
for. We are particularly interested
in applicants based in Durham.
To apply for
the role, please fill in this digital application form.
Successful applicants will be invited for an informal interview. Application
deadline: 27 May
2016.
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Ways
of Seeing: free writing workshop for marginalized writers
There are still a few places
left on the Ways of Seeing workshop, which we are
running in partnership with the charity Creative Future. This free workshop takes
place in Newcastle on Wednesday
18 May and is open to writers who feel they have lacked
professional development or showcasing opportunities due to mental
health, disability, ethnicity, sexual identity and/or social
circumstance.
The workshop is suitable for new, emerging and established writers.
To book your place, visit the Creative Future website.
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Read
Regional: May dates
 Ian Clayton
has been writing
on our blog about his experiences of traversing the
North with this year’s Read Regional tour. Find out which library
serves the best biscuits and who makes the best tea at www.readregional.com
You’ll find our Read
Regional authors at the following libraries in the next
few weeks:
9 May
Ian Clayton at Manchester Central Library, 6.30pm
10 May
Helen Cadbury at Pudsey Library, 1.30pm
Hazel Osmond and Chris
Killen at Acklam Library, 7pm
11 May
Christa Ermiya at Woodlands Community Library, 2pm
Ian Clayton at Crown Street Library, Darlington, at 2pm
Andrew Forster at Newcastle City Library at 6.30pm
12 May
Carys Davies at Selby Library, 2.30pm
16 May
Kim Moore poetry reading and Exploring Poetry with Anna Woodford,
Gateshead Central Library, 1.30pm
17 May
Hazel Osmond and Chris
Killen at Whitley Bay Customer First Centre, 7pm
18 May
Hazel Osmond and Caroline
Roberts at Wakefield Library and Museum, 7pm
19 May
Kim Moore poetry reading and Exploring Poetry with Carole Bromley,
Hull Central Library, 6.30pm
Hazel Osmond and Caroline
Roberts at Gateshead Central Library, 7pm
20 May
Crista Ermiya at Richmond Library, 7pm
24 May
Hazel Osmond at Houghton Library, 2pm
25 May
Andrew Forster at Wetherby Library, 6.30pm
26 May
Chris Killen at Manchester Central Library, 6.30pm
Helen Cadbury at Cheadle Library, 6.30pm
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Shore
to Shore: Celebrating Poetry and Community with the Laureate and
Friends
We're very happy to be supporting Shore to Shore, a two-week national tour
taking place this summer. For 14 consecutive nights Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
will visit local communities to perform alongside Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke,
Imtiaz Dharker,
musician John
Sampson and a guest local poet in each location.
The tour coincides
with 10 years of Independent Bookshop Week run in
partnership with local independent bookshops in a range of local
venues. There will also be a poetry tour anthology published to
coincide with it. You can catch the tour at the following bookshops
across the North: Simply Books in Stockport on 27 June
Bookends in Carlisle on 28
June Forum Books in Corbridge on 29 June For
full details of the tour, see the Pan Macmillan website.
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People
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Nick
Quantrill’s fourth Hull-set crime novel The Dead Can't Talk
is to be launched with a special event at Kardomah 94 in Hull on Friday
13 May
in conversation with Helen
Cadbury (7.30pm - free). He will also be signing copies
in Waterstones, Hull on Saturday 14
May.
Orion has acquired the rights to The
Companion, the debut by Sarah Dunnakey, set in 1930s
Yorkshire and the present day, to be published in hardback and e-book
in May 2017 and paperback in November 2017. In 2014 Dunakey won a
Northern Writer's Award from New Writing North after submitting part of
the novel.
North East-based Max
Adams, author of King
of the North, has The
Ambulist published on 24 May. In contrast to his
previous, historical novel, his latest is set in the present day and
follows a man who walks, seemingly forever, through the plains and
vales of Northumberland. See www.theambulist.co.uk
Blaydon writer Fiona
Ritchie Walker has won first prize of £1000 in the
Felix Dennis Creative Writing Competition 2016. Her short story, on the
competition theme 'For All Time' – celebrating the 400th anniversary of
Shakespeare's death - is included in an anthology of winning and
commended stories which was launched at the Stratford-upon-Avon
Literary Festival and is now available to order online.
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Opportunities
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International
Literature Showcase
Writers have until midday on Monday (9 May) to submit applications for the
International Literature Showcase (ILS): a major
two-year partnership between British Council, Arts Council England and
Writers’ Centre Norwich. Applicants must have a clear and proven record
of publication and critical acclaim. See Writers’ Centre Norwich’s website for more
details.
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Chair
of Open Clasp Board of Trustees
Award-winning women’s
theatre company Open Clasp is looking to appoint a new
female Chair of
their Board of Trustees. In view of the company’s new
international/national profile, the chair needs to have the skill and
ability to support the company in retaining and building upon this
exposure. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday 10 May;
please email recruitment@openclasp.plus.com with a
CV and covering letter.
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Writing
about ‘Influence’
Avis Magazine,
a publication run by MA students at Manchester Metropolitan University,
is looking for
submissions from new and emerging writers focusing on
‘Influence’. The closing date is 23 May and the issue will be released
in late summer. See: www.avismagazineblog.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions
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Poems
about aunts
The Emma
Press has launched an open call for poems about aunts
to feature in The
Emma Press Anthology of Aunts, edited by Rachel Piercey and
Emma Wright and to be published in March 2017. Full details of
submission guidelines can be found on The Emma Press’s website.
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Competitions
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Fool
for Poetry Chapbook Competition
The Fool For
Poetry International Chapbook Competition is now open for submissions,
deadline 31 May.
The first and second prize winners will receive a cash prize (1st
prize: €1000, 2nd prize: €500), as well as chapbook publication and the
invitation to read at Cork Poetry Festival. See Munster Literature Centre’s website
for more information.
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Multilingual
publishing platform for authors
La musa sulla
nuvola is a new multilingual publishing platform that
will collect and
showcase promising literary manuscripts to make them
available to professionals and readers. Based in Venice, the online
magazine, whose name translates as ‘The Muse on the Cloud’, will be
accepting submissions until 30
June. See www.lamusasullanuvola.com for more details.
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Myths
of the Near Future
The National
Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) has launched
the call for submissions for its eighth Myths of the Near Future
magazine—calling all young writers, aged 16-25, to submit fiction,
poetry, creative nonfiction and essays. See Myths magazine’s website for more information
about how to submit (deadline: 1 July).
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Scottish
Book Trust New Writers Awards
The New
Writers Awards are managed by Scottish Book Trust in
association with Creative Scotland and each year they provide 10 unpublished writers with
financial support to enable them to concentrate on
developing their work. The closing date is 6 July. See www.scottishbooktrust.com/new-writers-awards
for entry specifications.
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Foyle
Young Poets’ Award
The biggest
competition for writers aged 11-17; winners receive
fantastic prizes and support for their writing. Apply via the Foyle Young Poets website
by 31 July.
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Workshops
and networking
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Lancaster:
That Killer First Page
Paul
McVeigh’s one-off workshop at The Storey, Meeting House
Lane, Lancaster on Saturday
7 May will advise what it is competition judges, agents
and editors look for in a short story and how to avoid the rejection
pile. You’ll write a short piece and get feedback on that crucial story
opening. Tickets for this class are available to book via Eventbrite for £60.
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Pen
Power: Words to promote Wellbeing in Darlington
Facilitated by poet Natalie
Scott, this one-off workshop at Health Warehouse Café,
Darlington on Tuesday
17 May will guide you through a range of activities
designed to get you writing creatively and expressively. For more
information and to book your place please for £6 visit www.penpower.org.uk
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A
Writer's Imaginarium
This six-month
cross-genre writing programme at Lancaster Meeting
House, running on the first Monday of every month, September to
February inclusive (except for the meeting on 9th Jan 2017), will offer
a space for you to explore
and develop your writing potential (booking deadline 20 May). £120
full price or £60 concessions. See the programme’s website for more
information.
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Writers’
retreats in Cumbria
Join Pippa
Little and Geraldine
Green for a midsummer
poetry course at Brantwood Coniston, former home of
John Ruskin, from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 June (course fee: £240; book here). Brantwood will also be the
setting for a writers’ retreat with Geraldine Green and Graham Mort 3-6 October.
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Healing
Words poetry class in Scarborough
A one-off
experiential workshop with Kate Evans, at
Scarborough Counseling & Psychotherapy Training Institute on 5
November, will explore
how poetry can be used as a tool for self-reflection.
Early bird tickets are currently available for £75 from www.writingourselveswell.co.uk
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Finding
the Words
Whitley Bay
Library, Whitley Bay: Saturday 16th July
An all day
creative workshop run by local writers Jennifer C Wilson
and Elaine
Cusack. The day consists of two workshops: Scavenger
Hunt in the morning and Found Poetry in the afternoon. Attendees can
book either morning or afternoon sessions for £20 each or the whole day
for £30. Both morning and afternoon sessions will include writing exercises,
guidance,
group feedback
sessions and if possible, one to one advice.
Booking and information www.ticketsource.co.uk/thenextpage
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Jobs
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Free Word,
based in Central London is seeking a new, dynamic director to
lead their programmes with energy and expertise. £60-65K per annum,
depending on experience; entries close on Saturday 14 May.
For more information, please refer to the job specification on the Guardian Jobs website.
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The
Listening Post
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Poetry
launch in Blyth
A reading from the Blyth Poetry Group and Northern Poetry Library
Poet-in-Residence, John
Challis, of Among
Woods and Water, takes place upstairs at Blyth Library on Tuesday 24 May
at 5pm. The collection has been put together over the last few months
by the group and explores Blyth’s history and industrial past. Free
entry; find out more at www.northernpoetrylibrary.org.uk
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The
Folio Academy Sessions
For the third year running, the Folio Prize Foundation and the
British Library
host some of the world’s finest writers and their
guests at a weekend devoted to the art of storytelling on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June.
All tickets, starting from £18, are available through the British Library Box Office.
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Festival
of Writing in York
The 2016
Festival of Writing is being held at the University of
York from 9-11
September. Tickets prices start at £185 and agent
one-to-one sessions are available. See The Writers’ Workshop website for
more information.
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Poetry
Exchange in Manchester
The Poetry Exchange will be in residence at John Rylands Library,
Manchester. They invite readers to book in for an individual Exchange
with them to
talk about a poem that has been a friend to you. In
exchange, you’ll receive
a bespoke gift, created especially for you and inspired
by the conversation. To receive detailed information and a personal
invitation email us at, please email them at info@thepoetryexchange.co.uk
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Free
as a Bard
Jam Jar Cinema,
Whitley Bay: Sunday 5th June
Free as a
Bard, the popular poetry and music evening launches
two IRON press books by poets George
Jowett and John
Price. The evening also sees a welcome return for
musician Jenny
Lascelles. In addition there'll be free fruit, a
literary raffle and more. Tickets £5. Show starts 8pm. Tickets and
information www.jamjarcinema.com
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