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Durham
Book Festival 2016
 After
months under wraps, we are excited to finally share this year’s Durham Book Festival programme
with you. It’s going to be a good one! Some of the many highlights
include Hey Presto!
our touring theatre production for under 7s and their families; our Big Read – Regeneration by Booker Prize winner
and Durham resident, Pat Barker – which culminates in a flagship event
with Pat Barker and Michael
Morpurgo at Durham Cathedral; and the 15 Little Free Libraries we are
building for County Durham.
You’ll also find big names including Alan Johnson; Anthony Horowitz; Laura Bates; Juno Dawson; Helen Mort; Chris Mullin; Hunter Davies; James Rebanks; Nikesh Shukla; Decca Aitkenhead and many more.
As the
producers of Durham Book Festival, we think it’s really important to
commission new work, so we’re especially pleased to present Kathryn Williams
and Friends; Kamal Kaan’s
As The Cloud Takes its Last Breath; Carmen Marcus’s
The Book of Godless Verse; Matt Miller’s
Sticking; Where Does the Power Lie in the North East?
in association with The Northern Correspondent; and TippingPoint: Climate Change and the Stories We
Tell. You can find all of our events at www.durhambookfestival.com. We hope to
see you at the festival this October! |
Gordon
Burn Prize 2016 shortlist announcement
 We are
thrilled to announce the shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016,
as selected by our judges, the novelists Jenn Ashworth
and William Boyd,
journalist and writer Rachel
Cooke, and the artist and author Harland Miller.
The shortlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2016 is:
A Woman on the
Edge of Time: A Son’s Search for his Mother by Jeremy Gavron
The Lonely City:
Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Eileen
by Ottessa
Moshfegh
Anatomy of a Soldier
by Harry Parker
All That Man Is
by David Szalay
And the Sun Shines
Now by Adrian
Tempany
The prize was founded in memory of Gordon Burn, a writer who pushed
the boundaries and whose work across fiction, non-fiction and
journalism was bold and fearless. The prize is run in partnership by
the Gordon Burn Trust, Faber & Faber (Gordon’s publisher), New
Writing North and the Durham Book Festival.
The winner will be announced on Friday 7 October at the opening
of this year’s Durham Book Festival. Tickets for the
festival are now on sale, and we very much hope
you’ll join us. |
Become
a Reviewer in Residence at Durham Book Festival 2016
 Following
the success of our Reviewers in Residence programme at Durham Book
Festival last year, we’re
offering young people (aged 15-23) the chance to get involved again.
This is a chance to hone
your feature writing, blogging and interviewing skills through
masterclasses and workshops with top professionals such
as The Guardian’s North of England editor Helen Pidd and
books vlogger (and festival “Vlogger in Residence”) Jen Campbell,
get access to festival books and events and get a chance to interview
festival stars. Our Reviewers in Residence team will be writing throughout the
festival for the Durham Book Festival blog and for
Cuckoo Review, and will have a chance to have their work published in
the 2016 print edition of Cuckoo Press, published later this year.
It’s also a fantastic opportunity to see how a book festival runs,
improve journalism skills and do some networking with the literati, so
if you’re interested in journalism, broadcasting, publishing or editing
this is the opportunity for you. Find out more at the Cuckoo Writers site. |
People
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Andy Berriman
and Alli Davies,
who together run Zen Gun, a theatre company based in
the North East, are currently working on a piece called ‘Trade’, which
was originally inspired by a visit to the International Slavery Museum
in Liverpool. The museum invited them to write for their blog and the
article is now available to read online.
Sally Jubb,
who won the Andrea Badenoch Award at 2015’s Northern Writers’ Awards,
has been shortlisted for the 2016 Bristol Short Story Prize. The
winner of the 2016 prize will be announced at an awards ceremony on 8
October.
Newcastle-based Fiona
Veitch Smith’s debut historical mystery novel, The Jazz Files,
has been shortlisted for the CWA
Endeavour Historical Dagger award. The winners of the
awards—across 10 categories—will be announced at a gala dinner in
London on 11 October. |
Opportunities
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Project
management training in Gateshead
Helix Arts and Gateshead Council's Culture Team have joined forces
to provide a
unique opportunity for artists working in any art form living in
Gateshead. The Make Participatory Arts Happen training
course involves attending eight training sessions (commencing 7 September)
where you will learn how to design and manage participatory arts
projects. You will then be given a small budget to run an arts project
for people living in Gateshead. To sign up, complete and return the Expression of Interest
form by 15
August. |
Submissions
on the theme of ‘Melancholia’
Archipelago,
a yearly magazine for both visual and written work, is inviting submissions
including but not limited to poetry, fiction and academic/non-academic
essays; with particular emphasis
on feminist, LGBT and other marginalised voices. Please
email your submission to archipelagoteam@gmail.com by 25 August. |
Applications
invited for MA in Writing Poetry
The Poetry School, along with Newcastle University, is seeking applications for their MA in
Writing Poetry. The course starts in September and is
to be delivered part-time over two years. More information can be found on The Poetry School’s website.
For further enquiries, please email John Canfield at coordinator@poetryschool.com
for study in London, or Melanie Birch at melanie.birch@ncl.ac.uk
for study in Newcastle. |
Penguin
Random House seeks marginalised writers
Penguin Random House UK is looking to find, mentor, and ultimately
publish new
writers from communities that are under-represented on
the nation's bookshelves - including economically marginalised writers,
and those from BAME and LGBTQ communities.
WriteNow will give 150 writers across the UK the opportunity to
attend one of three insight days in London, Birmingham and Manchester
(commencing 1
October). 10 exceptional writers will go on to benefit
from a year of
mentoring. Writers across the UK can apply by visiting www.write-now.live and submitting a
sample of their work. |
Durham
scratch night submissions
Gala Theatre is seeking submissions
for the second in a new series of scratch nights. Next Up… is Gala’s
stage for new work with the next event taking place on Wednesday 2 November.
The event provides an opportunity for playwrights, artists or companies
to trial and
share works-in-progress in front of a friendly and
constructive audience. Submissions in a wide range of genres and styles
of performance are welcomed. To find out more or apply, contact Nick
Malyan on nick.malyan3@durham.gov.uk. |
Competitions
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Aesthetica
Creative Writing Award
There are a
few weeks left to enter the 10th Aesthetica Creative
Writing Award: presented by Aesthetica Magazine and judged by literary
experts. Emerging and established writers and poets are invited to
register by 31
August to be in with a chance of winning publication in an anthology of
new writing, subscriptions to leading writing
organisations and publications, and a consultation with a literary
agent, among other great prizes. To enter, visit www.aestheticamagazine.com/cwa |
Workshops
and networking
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Magical
Fiction in Leeds
An Inscribe masterclass, Writing
the Magic in the Everyday, taking place Saturday 13 August,
11am-4pm at Union 105 (East St. Arts), will explore magical realism,
or what Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier calls "the marvellous
real". The session will be led be author Marcia Douglas
and tickets, costing £12-15, can be booked online. |
North
Tyneside workshops and mentoring
Whitley Bay writer Elaine
Cusack is running writing workshops and offering one to
one mentoring in North Tyneside this autumn and winter. Workshops
include travel
and food writing, as well as Ekphrasis (finding
inspiration in art). Elaine's hour long mentoring sessions start on
Saturday 3 September. For more information on workshops and mentoring
visit Elaine's blog. |
Writing
for Wellbeing in Corbridge
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 Change and Growth at Dilston
Physic Garden, Corbridge
on Saturday 10
September (participation costs £25). For more
information on workshops and to book, go to www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk. |
Royal
Exchange playwriting workshops
Led by professional writers and theatre makers, Wordplay workshops,
held at the Royal Exchange in Manchester,
draw on a selection of plays from their repertoire to gently introduce participants
to writing for theatre. The next workshop is Wednesday 14 September,
11am-1pm, with an emphasis on Tennessee Williams’ A
Streetcar Named Desire. Tickets cost just £6 per session. |
Jobs
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| Art and culture magazine Aesthetica
is recruiting a part-time
digital content officer to work in their York office
(£18,000 pro-rata). The successful candidate will source, write, edit
and upload content across Aesthetica’s websites, as well as manage
social media channels and promote various projects. The deadline for
applications is Monday 15 August. www.aestheticamagazine.com/jobs |
The
Listening Post
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SI
Leeds Literary Prize shortlist
The SI Leeds Literary Prize has announced its longlist of unpublished fiction by black
and Asian women. The twelve long-listed manuscripts
were selected from many entries of promising and accomplished writing,
covering a wide range of genres and subjects, and can be viewed
online via the SI Leeds
website. The prize ceremony will take place on 12 October as
part of the Ilkley Literature Festival. |
Indie
Presses 2016/17
Indie Presses 2016/17: a
guide to independent book publishers and literary magazines,
has been published by women writers’ magazine Mslexia. The
comprehensive catalogue of more than 400 independent literary presses and magazines
comes complete with full details on how to submit your writing to them,
plus Mslexia’s perspective on the quality and reputation of those
listed. Buy a copy for only £12.99 (plus p&p) by visiting www.mslexia.co.uk. |
Newcastle
writer’s one-man ‘Gandalf’ play
North East playwright Adrian Marks (winner, Golden Brad movie script
award 2009; Ovation Theatre Award finalist 2010-2012) will have his
script, Waiting
for Gandalf, performed at Newcastle’s Bridge Hotel
on Saturday 24
September at 4pm, following on from its Brighton Fringe
debut this May. The play will be performed by Chris Neville-Smith,
who came across it at Live Theatre's 2011 writers' group, at which both
he and Adrian were members. Tickets are free but must be pre-booked,
and there will be a collection for charity afterwards. |
The
Mansio continues its tour
The Mansio,
a contemporary structure sharing
new work from poets and authors, will be at Birdoswald 3-4 September
and Carlisle Castle from 9-11
September. A series of free workshops, talks,
storytelling, and author events is taking place around Northumberland,
linked to the tour.
Author talks include Colette
Bryce (Mon 15
August, 6pm, at Wall Village Hall); Kathleen Jamie (Thurs 1 September,
7.15pm, at Carlisle Library); David
Almond (Thurs 8
September, 7.15pm, at Carlisle Library) and Lemn Sissay
(Sat 10
September, Carlisle Castle). There will also be a
Writing Workshop with Tony
Williams on Sat 10
September, 10am-12noon, at Tullie House Museum,
Carlisle. Booking is essential for most events; see www.mansio.co.uk for full details. |
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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 22 August 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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