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NWN Books of the Year 2016
As the year draws to a
close, we’re all looking forward to switching off our computers and
settling down with some good books. We love poring over the end of year
lists in the office, so we thought we’d bring you a
selection of our own favourite reads of the year. Enjoy!
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‘Tis the season to work on your NWA entry
While for some of us the
Christmas break means eating, drinking and general frivolity, there is a
hardcore of writers for whom a few days away from work make the best time
to work on their Northern Writers’ Awards entries. We usually get a spike
of entries around this time!
All the info you need about
entering the Northern Writers’ Awards should be on our
website but if you have any more specific queries, the best way
to reach us over the break will be via Facebook
or Twitter.
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Festival laureate Helen Mort
The poet Helen Mort was our
brilliant Festival Laureate this year at Durham Book Festival. As well as
working with young people in secondary schools and at Durham University,
Helen wrote a new poem, which you can hear her reading on
SoundCloud, especially for the festival, which is inspired by
the history of boxing in the North East.
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Another
highlight from Durham Book Festival 2016 was Writing the First World War with
Pat Barker and Michael Morpurgo, which took place in the
atmospheric setting of Durham Cathedral. Despite being two of the country’s
leading chroniclers of the First World War, this is the first time Pat and
Michael have ever appeared together.
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Award winners in Cuckoo Press Issue 5
Issue 5 of Cuckoo Press,
our annual supplement of journalism, poetry and short stories is out now
within the December/January issue of Narc. Magazine. You'll find 18-year
old Kate Collins’s Cuckoo Award winning-story ‘Best Served Cold’, along
with ‘The Compentency of Rage’, by Amy Langdown and Shana Nichols, both 14,
who won the Matthew Hale Award 2016.
We’re now looking for young
writers to enter this year’s Cuckoo Young Writers Award. The award is open
to 14–18 year olds writing poetry, prose of creative non-fiction. Apply now
at northernwritersawards.com/enter.
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Cuckoo Young Writers
Our Cuckoo
Young Writers groups are now taking a Christmas break, but
they’ll be back with bells on in January.
If you’ve never taken part
before, why not make 2017 the year you become a young writer? The groups
are free to attend and open to everyone aged 12-19. Come along on your own
or bring a pal, we’re friendly!
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The
Forge, in collaboration with the Tommy Armstrong Society, is running the
first-ever Northern
Writes Poetry Competition, with the judges looking for
submissions from all ages carrying the spirit of Armstrong’s work
(deadline: Friday 6 January). Gift tokens worth £100 will be awarded to
each winner. All enquiries to enquiries@intheforge.com.
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Reader’s
Digest 100 Words Story Competition is back for its
seventh year. The winner in the category for adults will receive £2,000
and be published in the June issue, while two runners-up will each
receive £200. Enter via the Reader’s Digest website by 20 February. All
information is at the Reader's
Digest website.
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Faber
& Faber and the Andlyn Literary Agency have launched a new prize to
find Black, Asian
or Minority Ethnic (BAME) writers and illustrators for children.
The FAB Prize 2017
is
open for entries until 6 April 2017, with prizes of upto £500,
plus mentoring opportunities.
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BBC
Writersroom's regular window for unsolicited
scripts is open until 5pm on Monday 9 January 2017 for Drama scripts (TV,
film, radio, stage or online). All scripts will be read blind, i.e.
without a name attached, until after full-read stage. Find out more, and
submit your script, via
the BBC Writersroom website.
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BOOK
Music & Lyrics in now accepting
applications for its 2017 Librettists
Group and its First
Year Composer/ Lyricist Group for emerging musical
theatre professional development, to begin at the end of February.
Application deadline: 24 January. Apply via www.bookmusicandlyrics.com.
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Popshot
Magazine, an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction and
poetry,
is now open for its seventeenth issue of submissions. The
upcoming edition will be centred on the theme of ‘Future’ and the deadline
will be 26 January.
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Six
Greater Manchester-based
creatives are being sought for Jerwood Creative Fellowships
with Manchester International Festival, as a way of
learning more about how MIF work is made and gaining access to the work
during its development. The closing date for applications is 9am
on 2 February.
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The
Mechanics’ Institute Review (MIR), Birkbeck,
University of London’s annual short-story
anthology, is now inviting submissions of unpublished
short stories of up to 6,000 words from both new and established authors.
Deadline for submission is midnight
Friday 10 February.
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Monkhouse
Primary School in North Tyneside is looking for a number of cultural partners to
work with during the spring term as part of their
Artsmark journey, around a range of topics (superheroes; animals; the
Stone and Bronze Ages; Ancient Greece). If you are an organisation or
individual artist who could support work around these themes, please
contact Sally
Branson.
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Gben!/Write!
New Playwriting Bursary is available through Live
Theatre, Newcastle, for
young writers (aged 16-25) of African Caribbean heritage, in memory of Osa
Omorogbe. Up to eight bursaries worth over £1000 and a
place on a playwriting course, are available for young people aged 16-25 of
African Caribbean heritage from Tyne & Wear. Young people interested in
the bursary are invited to attend a free afternoon taster workshop on
Saturday 21 January. See http://www.live.org.uk/about-us/jobs-opportunities.
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Poet
Natalie Scott will facilitate Pen
Power at Norton
Library on Wednesdays (starting 11 January, 5.30pm), a series of six workshops,
which will guide you through a range of activities designed to get you
thinking and writing expressively. Tickets
for the full course can be purchased at £30.
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A
Seasonal Space to
Write, taking place at Hall Garth Hotel and Country Club in Darlington,
will bring writers together, regardless of discipline or ability. Taking
place 14 January, 10am-5pm, tickets can be booked for £35 by emailing nataliescott.poet@yahoo.co.uk.
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Laura
Napran’s upcoming Writing
for Wellbeing workshops include one themed to Mindfulness
for Calm at the Om
Yoga Works in Farsley, Leeds on Saturday 25 February
(participation costs £25).
For more information on workshops and to book, go to www.writingforwellbeing.co.uk.
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Tyneside
based writer Martin Cooper will be running a workshop, Gothic Fiction: Tales for a
Winter’s Night, at Stow House, Wensleydale, from 17-19
March. Prices, including course fee and dinner, bed and breakfast at Stow
House, start from from £280 to £380. Book via info@stowhouse.co.uk or telephone 01969
663 635.
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Creative
Fuse North East is the first time all five
of the region’s universities have come together to work hand-in-hand with
the North East’s creative, digital and IT companies - sharing resources,
supporting the industry and championing unique creative, digital &
technology skills. If you work in this sector as staff or freelancer, they
would encourage you to complete this
survey.
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2017’s
Ullapool
Book Festival will be held from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 May
in Scotland. The full programme of fiction, non-fiction and poetry will be
announced in March; however a full weekend ticket can be booked in advance
at a reduced rate of £85 until 31 December.
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Manchester
International Festival is looking for a guest liaison officer.
Apply by 9am Monday 19 December.
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One
Day Creative is looking for a freelance creative scriptwriter
Closing date is 20 December. Email steph@onedaycreative.com.
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A
development manager
is needed for the Great
Exhibition of the North by the NewcastleGateshead
Initiative, closing 6 January.
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Bridge
+ Tunnel Productions is seeking a producer in training
to support the production team. Closing date: 3 January.
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Kala
Sangam, a leading south Asian arts and culture organisation,
seeks a creative producer,
closing 12 noon on 6 January.
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The
Reader, seeks a story hunter to
work with children and families.
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Live
Theatre, has five full-time opportunities including a chief operating officer,
all of which close on 17 January.
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If you have news
that you would like to be considered for inclusion in the newsletter please
contact peter@newwritingnorth.com. The deadline
for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 23 January 2017.
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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