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Help
us support the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship
We hope you can join us on Sunday 5 June
for an evening
of poetry, music, cabaret and cocktails at Live Theatre
as we award this year’s Julia Darling Travel Fellowship and celebrate the life and work of
Julia Darling. The evening will be hosted by Charlie
Hardwick, with performances by The Poetry Virgins, Kissed, Zoe Lambert
and others.
Julia Darling was a kind and generous
writer who went out of her way to support and encourage many other
writers to develop their work and their creativity. The Julia Darling
Travel Fellowship is inspired by Julia’s love of travel and by the
appreciation that she had of writing away from home, whether at
creative retreats in the wilderness or in rented houses at the seaside.
The prize supports a creative writer or group of writers to undertake a
period of travel.
The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship is purely crowd-funded
and supported by many generous donors. Ticket sales from
'Rendezvous—Wish You Were Here' will support the continuation of this prize.
The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship is managed by New Writing North,
with additional support from Live Theatre.
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Dad?
skate culture exhibition
 This
weekend, 3-5
June, a skate
culture exhibition created as part of Young Writers’
City takes place at Tyneside Cinema Pop-Up Film School in Newcastle.
Since the beginning of the year, Dad? Crew—a
bunch of teenage skateboarders from Newcastle—have been working with
poet Paul Summers to create
an exhibition of skateboarding sonnets, photos of flips
and short films that show you places
and faces through a skateboarder’s eyes. It’s a chance
to see the tagging, tricks and injuries, and to see Newcastle in a
totally new way.
Alongside the exhibition, there will be
live music, spoken word, and a screening of seminal skateboarding
documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, which tells the
story of the group of teenage skaters in 1970s California who formed
Z-Boys skate crew and went on to change the history of skateboarding.
Friday
3 June 2016
6.30-9pm: Opening
night, with spoken word, a local band, music and hot dogs. No need to
book, just turn up.
Saturday
4 June 2016
11am-5.30pm: Exhibition
open, just pop in.
Sunday
5 June 2016
10am-12 noon: Exhibition
open, just pop in.
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Last
call for Crime Story 2016 tickets
Crime Story, our innovative festival for
crime readers and writers, returns to Northumbria University,
Newcastle, on Saturday
11 June. Fancy chatting
to detectives, lawyers and forensic scientists? Want to
meet a literary
agent? Hoping for a good catch up with your crime
writing peers? Then you’ll have to be quick!
There are just a few tickets left
for this year’s festival—find out more and book online at www.crimestory.co.uk
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Read
Regional 2016—don’t miss our final events
It’s the last month of Read Regional 2016. Our authors have
traversed the North, meeting new readers in towns, cities and villages,
talking about their work with book groups, schools, and communities
across the region. If you have not yet had a chance to catch a Read
Regional event, there
is still time! In June, you’ll find our authors in
the following places:
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We’re
recruiting—Young People’s Programme Manager (maternity cover)
We are recruiting a temporary member of
staff to cover the current Young People’s Programme Manager’s maternity
leave. The Young
People’s Programme Manager is a management post within
New Writing North involving planning, programming, delivery and event
management of work with young people, including the Cuckoo Young
Writers programme.
The post is full-time with
some evening and quite regular weekend working required. Initially the
contract will be for six months with the possibility of an extension
depending on the current postholder’s maternity arrangements.
Deadline for applications: 5.30pm on
Wednesday, 29
June 2016. Interviews will take place on Wednesday, 6 July 2016.
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People
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Alex
Reed, a poet and writer living in Northumberland, has
had his poetry pamphlet A
Career in Accompaniment published by V. Press. Drawing
on the writer’s personal experience of caring for his partner, and his
previous work as a family therapist, the collection is available to buy from the V. Press website.
Newcastle-based writer, and 2013 Costa
Short Story Award winner, Angela
Readman has won the first prize of £2,000 in the
Mslexia 2016 Short Story Competition. Her winning story, ‘The Story that was Never Told’,
appears in the latest issue of Mslexia, which is now available to order
online.
Congratulations, all!
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Opportunities
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Grants
for the Arts advice surgeries
If you are thinking of submitting an
application to Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts
programme, Alison
Boyle will be available to give advice
and discuss your proposed project funding on Wednesday 17 August 2016
in the New Writing North offices in Newcastle.
Surgeries with Alison will last 50 minutes and
are available 3-5pm. If you’d like to be considered for a surgery slot,
please email Peter Cumiskey peter@newwritingnorth.com with a
one-paragraph outline of your proposal. We will allocate slots to
writers that Alison is best able to advise.
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Operating
Theatre seeks new trustees
Operating
Theatre—a charity that exists to produce
thought-provoking drama on health and social issues using high quality
talent—is
seeking additional trustees. The successful applicants
will help the charity as
they enter their second decade, playing a vital role in
supporting them as they work to increase the visibility of the company
both locally and nationally. For a briefing pack including further
details, please email operatingtheatre@inbox.com.
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Call
for submissions—Gala Theatre scratch night
Next
Up…, Gala Theatre’s platform for new work, is seeking
submissions for the first
in a new series of scratch nights. The first event,
taking place on Tuesday
28 June, 7.30pm, will provide an opportunity for playwrights,
artists or companies to trial
and share works-in-progress in front of a friendly and
constructive audience. It’s a chance
for you to road-test new work and gather feedback; it’s
also the best way for the team at Gala to get to know you and your work.
Submissions in a wide range of genres and styles of performance are
welcomed.
Application
Guidelines
· Applicants must be based in the North of England
· Work can be stand-alone or an excerpts from a longer piece
· Performed excerpts should be no longer than 20 minutes
· All actors/performers must be provided by the participating
company/artist/writer.
· Your performance should be possible to stage with minimal props.
Sound and lighting requirements must be suitable for performance in a
small, studio style space. A short tech of one hour will be scheduled
for the afternoon before the performance.
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Competitions
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International
Slam opportunity
Pangaea
Poetry, an international poetry organisation, is
looking for poets
from across the world to take part in their third Arts Council-funded poetry
slam. Across the month of July anyone looking to take
part can upload a video to YouTube and submit it online to the slam for
four weekly rounds. At the end of the month, five poets will receive £300
and support from Pangaea to look at how they can take their poetry
forward. Submissions can be made at www.pangaeapoetry.com or you can
contact carl@pangaeapoetry.com for more information.
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Workshops
and networking
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Improve
your memoir writing at Commonworld/Cultureworld, Manchester
At this Inscribe masterclass (Saturday 18 June,
11-4pm) led by Peepal Tree Press author Yvonne Weekes, guidance will be
given on
developing the craft of writing your memoir. The
workshop will involve discussion and practical exercises exploring
plot, structure and subject matter; characterization, point of view and
setting; language, style and originality. Tickets (£15/£12 conc) can be booked via
Eventbrite.
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Child
Protection & Safeguarding in the Arts and Cultural Sectors
Taking place at BALTIC Centre for
Contemporary Art, Gateshead on 5
October, 10.30am-4.15pm, this course will benefit
individuals and organisations looking to update their understanding of
child protection legislation and best practice. The
course costs £130
and includes a certificate of attendance for each delegate; book your
place online at www.artswork.org.uk/event/112, or
contact rachelhall@artswork.org.uk.
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Healing
poetry in York
As part of the York
Festival of Ideas, poet Christy Ducker will explore how
the science of wounds and healing can generate poetry. Experiment with
poetic form, DNA, metaphor, and cell-talk to take your writing in
surprising new directions at her workshop on Saturday 11 June
(2.30-4.30pm, King’s Manor, University of York). For more information
on the festival programme, see www.yorkfestivalofideas.com/2016.
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Developing
your Ideas: From Inspiration to Publication
Taking place at Seven Stories National Centre
for Children’s Books, this panel discussion on Thursday 7 July will
unite illustrator Chris
Chatterton and his agent Arabella Stein,
in conversation with the author and artist Niel Bushnell and
his agent Juliet
Mushens. Tickets are available for New Writing North
subscribers at the special members’ rate of £25 (instead of the
non-member rate of £35). Simply book via the Society of Authors website and enter
the promotion code of ‘NW16’ when prompted.
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Writing
for Wellbeing in York
Laura
Napran’s Writing
for Wellbeing workshops offer to lead you through
guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness,
and emotional wellbeing. Upcoming sessions include one themed to Poetry
for Healing at York Yoga Studio, Acomb, York on Sunday 19 June
(participation cost: £25). For more information on workshops and to
book, go to www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk.
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Midsummer
poetry weekend in Cumbria
Fancy spending a long weekend in the
beautiful Lake District, on a poetry
course? Then come and join Pippa Little
and Geraldine
Green for their Midsummer Poetry Course, June 24-26, at
Brantwood, former home of John Ruskin, in Coniston, Cumbria. Through a
variety of writing prompts and stimuli new poetry will be produced.
Further info, including course outline, can be found on Geraldine Green’s blog.
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Poetry
Carousel returns to Cumbria
After a sell-out 2015 Poetry Carousel,
the Poetry Carousel will run again in 2016 with tutors Kim Moore, Clare Shaw, Tsead Bruinja
and Saskia
Stehouwer. This is poetry residential with a
difference. Four tutors will work with small workshop groups of no more
than eight. The course fee includes accommodation, workshops,
breakfast, lunch and three-course evening meals. For more information
about the workshops that the tutors will be running, please go to Kim Moore's website.
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Jobs
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Ilkley
Literature Festival, which takes place 30 September–16
October, is seeking a head
of finance and administration (£20k-25k) to take
control of fiscal affairs and financial reporting as well as developing
strategic and imaginative approaches to raising funding. For more
information, apply via the Festival website by Monday 20 June.
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The
Listening Post
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Gothic (1986) screenwriter
special offer in Newcastle
A screening of Ken Russell’s 1986 film Gothic, which
chronicles the ‘birth’ of Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein, is taking place Friday 17 June,
7pm, in the Great Hall of Newcastle Castle Keep. The film will be
followed by a discussion
with screenwriter Stephen Volk, and tickets are
available for a special discount rate of £10 each to New Writing North
members (normal price: £13). Simply email marketing@newcastlecastle.co.uk
with the number of tickets you require. For more information about the
event, see: www.newcastlecastle.co.uk
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Crossing
the Tees festival
The Crossing the Tees book festival
returns for 2016, from 10-25
June, coordinated by the library services for Stockton,
Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Darlington. With highlights including
celebrated authors John
Nicholson, Helen
Cadbury and Jenny
Colgan, poets Anna
Woodford and Andy
Willoughby, plus creative writing, a film festival and
a book fair—there really is something for everyone. See www.crossingthetees.org
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Whitley
Bay Pure Fiction
An afternoon of Pure Fiction
with local writers Kitty
Fitzgerald, Jennifer
C Wilson and Sandy
Chadwin is taking place at Whitley Bay Library, Whitley
Bay on Saturday
30 July at 2.15pm. Tickets, costing £3.50, can be booked in advance online.
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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 laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 13 June 2016.
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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