New
Writing North news
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Northern
Writers’ Awards 2016
We are delighted to announce the winners of the
Northern
Writers’ Awards 2016. The 30 winners were announced at
a ceremony in Newcastle on Thursday night. 2016 was our biggest year so
far for the awards, with over 1000 entries, so competition was
incredibly fierce.
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Write
for our blog
This summer, New Writing North is launching a brand new website.
We are now looking for writers and readers based in the North of England
who are interested in contributing
to our blog. The blog will take a prominent place on
our website and posts will be shared on our social media accounts and
in this newsletter.
We are looking for one resident blogger each
month, who will write a series of three posts around a
particular topic or theme. We can pay £50 per post. If you are
interested in applying to be our resident blogger in the next few
months, please email Laura Fraine by 22 July with
‘Resident blogger’ in the subject line, two paragraphs about yourself
and your work, a suggestion of the subject you would like to write
about, and a brief outline of how the series of posts might develop.
We may also be able to offer occasional unpaid blog posts
to writers and readers in the North of England. These may be of
interest to you if you are working on a funded literary project, are
promoting a newly-published work, or have something you want to get off
your chest. If you have a post you would like to suggest for our blog,
email Laura Fraine with brief details.
Please do not send completed posts at this stage.
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Read
Regional 2016
After four months of library, book group,
school and festival events, Read Regional 2016 has come to a
close. We’d like to thank
everyone who attended events and made our authors feel
welcome in their local libraries, the 22 librarians with whom we
programme Read Regional events across the North of England, and our 2016 authors:
Helen Cadbury, Ian Clayton, Carys Davies, Crista Ermiya, Andrew
Forster, Chris Killen, Rachel McIntyre, Kim Moore, Hazel Osmond, and
Caroline Roberts.
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Cuckoo
Young Writers: On Writing
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People
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Northern Writers’ Awards winner Christy Ducker
has launched North East Heroes, a creative writing
and education project for
people aged 12+. Poetry workshops, or ‘hero sessions’,
focusing on historic local figures such as Grace Darling
and Humphry Davy,
are available for secondary school groups to book via the project’s website, where
you can also explore some of the responses produced by young people so
far.
Val
Scully, whose novel based on the notorious life of
Newcastle heiress Mary
Eleanor Bowes was launched at Gibside in March, will be
appearing at the Land of Oak and Iron launch event on Sunday 10 July.
My Name Is Eleanor
is set at Gibside, in the lower Derwent Valley, an area which is about
to benefit from this great new initiative, a landscape partnership
which aims to celebrate, conserve and enhance the natural, industrial
and cultural heritage of the area. Val is currently researching the
nineteenth century history of the area—particularly Blaydon, Winlaton
and radical Tyneside—for her
next novel, due out in 2017. See her website for details.
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Opportunities
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Hearing
the Voice—writer in residence opportunity
Palace Green Library is looking for a writer to undertake a
residency during the course of the exhibition Hearing Voices: suffering,
inspiration, and the everyday (5 November 2016–26 February
2017). The residency would contribute particularly to a section of the
exhibition focusing on the important role that voices—be they inner,
imagined or heard—play in writing and in the reading of literary works.
The aim of this residency is to actively
explore ideas around inner voice in writing and reading
through engagement with and interaction between the exhibition, its
visitors, and a writer.
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Clairssa
Luard Residencies for poets under 35
The
Wordsworth Trust is offering a series of month-long residencies
between November 2016 and March 2017—each offering an invaluable
opportunity for poets to spend time in the heart of the Lake District
and to contribute to their exciting Heritage Lottery Fund-supported
project, 'Reimagining
Wordsworth'.
Each poet will be paid a fee of £1,750,
and will be provided with a self-catering cottage a short walk from
Dove Cottage. For more information, see the Trust’s website. The deadline
is at 8am on Monday
25 July.
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Queen’s
Hall Arts commission
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre, Hexham is
looking to host a
short residency in their studio theatre this autumn as
part of Black Theatre Live, a national consortium of venues which aims
to develop and increase the volume of black and minority ethnic theatre
being produced and toured in England (see www.blacktheatrelive.co.uk).
A £3,000
commission is available, with a view to supporting a
full production in October 2017. Please send expressions of interest to
Geof Keys, Artistic Director, at geof.keys@queenshall.co.uk.
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Competitions
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T
S Eliot Prize call for submissions
Publishers of single author poetry
collections that have been published in the UK or the Republic of
Ireland during the calendar year 2016 are invited to submit for this year’s T S
Eliot Prize. The winner will receive £20,000 and
each of the ten shortlisted poets £1,500. Further details can be found
on the temporary website www.tseliotprize.co.uk. The closing
date is 5 August.
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Workshops
and networking
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The
Mansio free workshops and talks
The
Mansio, a contemporary structure sharing new work from
poets and authors, will be at Walltown
Crags from 25–30 July and Vindolanda from
2–7 August. A series of free workshops, talks, story-telling and author
events is taking place around Northumberland, linked to the tour.
At Queen’s
Hall, Hexham on Tuesday 12 July, 11am–1pm, Fiona Shaw
will lead a writing workshop,
Writing into the Past, Writing into the Future.
Events later in the month will include writing workshops
with Tony Williams, poetry
reading and writing workshops with Colette Bryce, and a
reading from poet in residence Daljit Nagra. Events are free, but booking
is advised. See www.mansio.co.uk for full programme
and booking details.
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The
Listening Post
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GemArts
Masala Festival celebrates South Asian literature
GemArts Masala Festival, happening this
month in
Newcastle and Gateshead, is to bring a mix of the very
finest South
Asian Arts and Culture to the North East. Taking place 11 to 17 July,
the programme is packed with award-winning international poets,
specially curated LGBT short film screenings and discussions.
Literary highlights include Identity,
Politics and Mythology, an evening of poetry with Moniiza Alvi, Amali
Rodrigo and Arundhathi Subramaniam, taking place on Thursday 14 July
at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab. For full listings of workshops
and demonstrations, visit www.gemarts.org or call 0191 440 4124
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Early
bird offer: James and the Giant Peach at Northern Stage
This
Christmas, Northern Stage are bringing to life the much
loved Roald Dahl story James and the Giant Peach, packed full
of songs, a sprinkling of joining-in and of course a giant juicy peach!
(Recommended age 5+).
Book before Thursday 1 August to save 20% on
your tickets.
Use promo code: NWNORTH when booking online. Or
quote it over the phone 0191 230 5151.
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Talks
on Tyne: Historical writing discussions
Writers and historians who have worked
with Tyne Bridge Publishing—Newcastle Libraries’ publishing arm—will
present a series of weekly
talks at the Black Gate: the gatehouse to Newcastle’s
medieval Castle (27
July–31 August).
Speakers include TV favourite John Grundy
and Max Adams
(The King in the
North) and will cover topics as diverse as medieval
Newcastle, the Roman Tyne Bridge, and Tyneside’s role in the Battle of
the Somme.
All talks, running approximately one
hour, will commence at 6pm and cost
£4 plus booking fee. For more information and to book
tickets, see www.newcastlecastle.co.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 11 July 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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