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New
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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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Cuckoo
Young Writers Summer Schools
This summer, Cuckoo has a creative
writing summer school for every taste. Join us for
everything from song
writing to crime
fiction, spoken
word to making
poetry out of paper, scissors and glue! Cuckoo Young
Writers’ Summer Schools are for young people aged 12-19 who are
interested in creative writing. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve
already got a novel on your memory stick or you just want to try
something new and have a go: CUCKOO NEEDS YOU. And it’s all totally FREE!
Make poetry
in Newcastle/ Gateshead, 25-29 July 2016
Pick ‘n’ mix
writing summer school in Durham, 2-4 August 2016
Explore
songwriting in Sunderland, 1-3 August 2016
Crime writing in
Cramlington, 16-17
August 2016
Start
songwriting in Warkworth, 23-25 August 2016
For more info about all the summer schools and to sign up, see Cuckoo Young Writers
Spaces are limited, so book soon!
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Crime
Story 2016
 We had a
fantastic time last weekend at Crime
Story 2016 and are busy plotting our heinous crimes (arm-wrestling
DCI, digital footprints and plenty of sellotape…)
We hope everyone who joined us found the day as interesting and inspiring
as we did. If you haven’t yet completed
our evaluation, we’d be really grateful if you could
spare a couple of minutes to tell us what you thought. Your feedback
will help inform the choices we make for Newcastle Writing Conference
in 2017 and the next Crime Story in 2018. Plus, there’s a £25 book voucher up
for grabs.
Find the form here.
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Northern
Writers’ Awards 2016
We had a record number of entries to the Northern Writers’ Awards
this year, with a great number of very high quality submissions. We have now contacted everyone
who applied for Northern Writers’ Awards to notify them
of the outcome of their entry. The winners will be announced on 30 June—watch
this space!
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North
Tyneside Summer Reads
As part of an ever-popular campaign, The Mysterious Miss Mayhew,
written by North East author Hazel
Osmond, has been selected as the North Tyneside Summer Read for
2016. Hazel is also part of this year’s Read Regional campaign.
The Mysterious
Miss Mayhew will be promoted to readers along the coast
throughout summer 2016. From July until September, residents and
visitors can
pick up a copy for the special price of just £4 from St
Mary’s Lighthouse, the Old Low Light, and any North Tyneside customer
first centre.
The Summer Read
campaign culminates in an author event on September 15
at 6.30pm at The
Rendezvous Cafe, in Whitley Bay. Hazel will be talking
about and reading from her book, and will be available to sign copies.
Tickets for the event are £3 or £5.50 including a copy of the book, and
can be purchased from any North Tyneside library.
For more info, contact North Tyneside Libraries, library.events@northtyneside.gov.uk
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People
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Northumberland writer Lorna
Windham has had her historical novel The Jacobite’s Daughter published
by Tyne Bridge Publishing. Set amongst bloody battlefields, it follows
a brave Scottish lass through a world of secrets, spies, intrigue and
injustice.
The Poetry
Exchange has now concluded Season One of its
podcast, which looks as ‘poems as friends’. The latest episode, ‘The full moon in daylight’, was
recorded at Durham Book Festival 2015. You can find the full season of podcasts here.
Correction: Self-published author Leslie Wilkie has published his
latest novel The
Gillygate Affair. The story revolves around the theme
of people smuggling and sexual exploitation on the North York Moors and
is available in paperback priced £9 and e-book for
£1.99.
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Opportunities
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Sign
up for November’s Great Northern Slam
The Great Northern Slam is back at Northern Stage on Thursday 3 November,
with the first prize a national
paid gig including expenses, courtesy of Apples and Snakes.
If you are interested in signing up for the slam email radikalwords@gmail.com
for full details, or visit the Great Northern Slam website.
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Competitions
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Foyle
Young Poets Awards 2016
The biggest poetry
competition for writers
aged 11-17 is open for entries until noon on 31 July. Each
year 100 winners (85 Commendations and 15 Overall Winners) are selected
by a team of high profile judges. For more information, see: www.foyleyoungpoets.org.
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Buzzwords
Poetry Competition
Poems
of no longer than 70 lines
are being sought, with a top prize of £600, and
£300 for a runner-up (deadline: 7
August). Proceeds of the competition will be used to
fund ‘Buzzwords’, which is the longest running and most respected
regular poetry gathering in Cheltenham. Visit the organisation’s
website to download an entry form and for postal
instructions.
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Oxford
Brookes International Poetry Competition
With two top prizes of £1000
on offer, this competition seeks to celebrate the great
diversity of poetry
being written in English all over the world. The
competition is open for submissions until midnight on 31 August and
it costs the equivalent of £5 to submit a poem, or £4 per poem for more
than three entries. See the Oxford Brookes University website
for specifications of international entry.
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2016-17
Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism
Journalists, critics, bloggers and unpublished writers interested in examining the
contemporary arts have the chance to win £3000 and have
their work published in print and online versions of the Observer. For
more information and to submit your work, visit The International Anthony Burgess
Foundation’s website. Deadline is 30 November.
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Workshops
and networking
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Outdoor
poetry workshops
Nationally recognised and award
winning poet Linda France will run three renga sessions
this summer—a classical Japanese tradition, which encourages greater
attunement to the landscape and the natural world. The resulting poems
will broaden others' experience of the landscape, providing a snapshot
of the spirit of the place at a particular time on a particular day
To book a place at Kirkhale on Saturday 25 June or Rothley Low
Lake on Wednesday
17 August (£8 each, 10.30am-4pm), please contact
Nick Owen.
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Tynemouth
Volunteer Life Brigade writing retreat
Award-winning writer Victoria
Watson will be running a writing retreat
at Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade on Sunday 24 July, 10am-2pm. It's
£40 per person with group discounts available, including lunch. As a
participant at this retreat, you'll be invited to read your
TVLB-inspired work
at Heritage
Open Days on
Saturday 10 September (although this is not mandatory).
To book your place, call Victoria on 07854 147140 or email victoria.watson@elementaryvwatson.com
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INSCRIBE
Masterclass: Writing the Magic in the Everyday
INSCRIBE—a
writer development programme for
Black and Asian writers—is offering an extraordinary
opportunity to work with award-winning author Marcia Douglas
[Jamaica/U.S.A]. Her fiction workshop will explore magical realism, or
what Cuban writer, Alejo Carpentier calls, “the marvellous real.”
The masterclass takes place at UNION 105 (East St. Arts), Leeds
on Saturday 13
August (11am-4pm), £12-£15. Places are available to book via Eventbrite.
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Mentoring:
The Next Creative Generation
A course exploring the principles
of mentoring, which will equip attendees with the tools
to support the next generation of creative practitioners and leaders,
takes place on 6
October at HOME,
Manchester. This course is priced at £130, which includes lunch,
refreshments and certification of attendance.
Book your place online.
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Jobs
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Opus
Independents in Sheffield has a vacancy for a part-time
admin &
finance assistant to cover a maternity leave for a
minimum of 12 months. £8.25/ hr for 7.5 hours per week. Deadline Sunday 24 July.
For full details see their website.
Heritage
Lottery Fund, in Manchester, is seeking a casework manager/substantive
senior grants officer to report to the Head of HLF
North West and will assess and process applications for grants in that
region. Circa £28-37k, full-time. Deadline for applications Sunday 3 July.
Full details here.
SICK!
Festival is looking for a development director with
a proven track-record for fundraising as the festival moves into a new
city, Manchester. Full time, salary c £36k. Deadline for applications
is Monday 27
June. See the festival's website for full details.
Ilkley
Literature Festival has a vacancy for the head of finance and
administration, who will manage the administration of
the festival. Full-time post, £22k. Deadline for applications is Monday 20 June.
See the festival's website for full details.
The Poetry
Archive is seeking a new, visionary director to
take the organisation into its next stage of growth. The post is
UK-based and the current director works remotely. This is a full-time
role. Deadline for applications is Thursday 23 Juiy, visit their website for full details.
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The
Listening Post
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Artists’
Book Market at Baltic
Saturday
18
& Sunday
19 June
10am-5pm
The Artists’
Book Market returns to Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
this weekend, with 40 national and regional artists, bookmakers, small
press publishers, artist’s groups, zine artists and bookbinders will be
exhibiting and selling their work direct to the public, as well as a
series of ‘artists interventions’ including a library rave and a talk
on the history of zine-making. Find out more at the Baltic's website.
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Helen
Cadbury Saltburn event
York crime writer and playwright Helen Cadbury—one of our Read Regional 2016 authors—will
be giving a special talk and book signing at Saltburn Community Theatre
on Friday 24
June, 6.30pm, as part of Independent Bookshop Week.
This is a free event, with books available to purchase on the night. See the Book Corner website for more details.
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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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Among Woods and Water
poetry launch
The Northern
Poetry Library will be launching poetry anthology Among Woods and Water
at Alnwick
Library on Thursday
12 July at 7.30pm. The evening will feature readings
from the collection and a celebration of one of the most important
poetry resources in the UK. Reserve your place via Eventbrite.
An additional launch event will take place at Berwick Library
on Thursday 14 July, 2pm. Book here.
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Identity,
Politics and Mythology
Trashed Organ
and GemArts present an evening of South Asian literature
with readings by three prize-winning poets: Moniza Alvi, Arundhathi Subramaniam
and Amali
Rodrigo. The reading will be followed by a discussion
led by Dr James
Procter of Newcastle University.
Arundhathi will also deliver a poetry workshop on poetry and
identity during the day at Newcastle University. Both events take place
on Thursday 14
July and are presented as part of the GemArts Masala
Festival. Tickets and more information can be found here.
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Greyscale
rehearsal space offer
Greyscale
studio, a rehearsal space in the centre of Newcastle,
is available for dates throughout June, July and August for a special
rate of £10 an hour. For more information, visit the Greyscale website or email studio@greyscale.org.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 laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 27 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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