The latest news from New Writing
North
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Newcastle Writing Conference 2017
Our Newcastle
Writing Conference has sold
out in record time. We’re excited to be welcoming some
brilliant speakers to the event, including keynote speaker Louise Doughty (Apple Tree Yard) and
literary agents Kate Barker and Ella Kahn. We’re also looking forward to
creative writing sessions, a ‘pitching your work’ workshop, advice on
producing literature projects, the nuts and bolts of working as a writer,
and lots more good stuff. And of course, we’re really happy that so many of
you can join us on 20 May, for what is sure to be an inspiring and very
practical afternoon.
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Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2017
At the time of writing,
there is still time to apply for the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship, which
closes at 11.59pm on Friday 31 March. This is a really excellent
opportunity for a writer or group of writers to spend time away from home
to research, travel or just to put their heads up and get a fresh
perspective on their writing. The fellowship will award £2000 to support
this period of travel.
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Significant Ink: professional development
for aspiring screenwriters in Bradford
Significant Ink is a New
Writing North professional development programme, which supports writers
for television from groups currently under-represented in the industry. We
are looking to identify and develop screenwriters or aspiring screenwriters
from BAME, disabled, LGBT+ or working class backgrounds and we will work
with them over a number of weeks to develop their work. The programme will
run in Bradford in May-June 2017. Apply
for your place by Friday
7 April.
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Read Regional 2018
We are now looking for
writers to take part in Read Regional 2018.
Read Regional is run by New
Writing North in conjunction with 23 library authorities in Yorkshire,
North East England and North West England. Each year we select 10-15 new
books by authors based in the North of England and promote them widely
through libraries and festivals. All participating libraries purchase bulk
book orders and receive supporting marketing campaign materials. The
authors visit libraries to give readings and to meet book groups.
Read
Regional 2017 continues apace. Book
and Brew’s Dawn Tindle has been our blogger-in-residence for
March. Recently, she attended Gulwali Passarlay’s talk at Newcastle City
Library, and told us what she thought about the event.
Gulwali is the author of The Lightless Sky – a
gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening account of his traumatic flight from
Afghanistan to the West, and the challenges he faced along the way.
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Free Thinking commissions
Earlier this year, we
worked with BBC Radio 3 to commission new short stories by Kirsty Logan,
Jenn Asworth and Paul McVeigh for the BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking festival,
which you can listen to here.
At the festival, they also appeared alongside George Saunders in a
fascinating discussion entitled How
Short is a Short Story?
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Northumberland
writer Chloe Daykin launched
her brilliant debut novel, YA adventure story Fish Boy (published by Faber & Faber) at
Seven Stories on Thursday 23 March. She won a Northern Writers’ Award in
2014, which helped towards developing the manuscript.
Paul
Kingsnorth, who won the Gordon Burn Prize in 2014 for his book The Wake, is
collaborating with artist Caroline Ross to create a beautiful new
illustrated edition. You can pledge toward the project via
the Unbound website.
The Otley Writers
group has launched The
Pulse of Everything: A Collection of Poems, Fiction and Memoirs.
The anthology is available
to buy from Amazon and was celebrated with a launch event at
which writers read an extract of their work.
Actor George Costigan (Rita, Sue and Bob Too,
Line of Duty
and Happy Valley)
has released his debut novel, The Single Soldier. Described as ‘a magnificent, big
beast of a book’ by Willy Russell, the story is set in France during the
German occupation, and is available via book shops and the Urbane
Publications website.
County Durham author Wendy McArdle,
who won a Northern Promise Award at the Northern Writers’ Awards 2012, has
just published an e-book, Tommy Down the Pit (Tyne Bridge Publishing),
set in a North East mining village.
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Writing
on the Wall has
opened submissions for Pulp Idol 2017. Writers are invited to
submit their first chapters for the opportunity to have it included in a
book of ‘Firsts’ and the winner will have the opportunity to work with
editors, which has led to past winners’ novels being published in full.
The deadline for chapter submissions is midnight on Sunday 16 April.
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Poet Helen Mort will
judge the Young Poets Network
competition I am the
Universe: writing climate change. This challenge is open to
all poets up to the age of 25, based anywhere in the world and the
deadline for all entries is Sunday
23 April.
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Grey Hen Poetry Competition 2017
is open for women over 60 until Sunday
30 April.
Poems may be on any theme and can be up to 40 lines long, with prizes
available of £100, £75 and £25.
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The
Winchester
Writers’ Festival offers diverse opportunities for
emerging writers via its ten writing competitions. The closing date for
all competition entries is 5pm on Monday
15 May. Find
out more via the festival’s website.
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The
Bridport Prize is open for submissions until Wednesday 31 May.
There are four categories: poetry (max 42 lines); short story (max 5,000
words); flash fiction (max 250 words) and the Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award
for a First Novel (max 8,000 words from opening chapters plus 300 word
synopsis). See www.bridportprize.org.uk.
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Write
Out Loud's Milestones
poetry competition is open to submissions on
the theme of ‘milestones’. The first prize is £500 and all shortlisted
entries will be published in a competition anthology. Enter the
competition by Wednesday
21 June.
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The 11th Aesthetica Creative Writing
Award is now open for entries, with prizes including
£1000 for the poetry winner and £1000 for the short story winner. Enter
by 31 August.
See www.aestheticamagazine.com/cwa
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Tamasha's
Regional Associate Producers Programme will provide full-time, paid
placements for four BAME associate producers wishing to develop their
producing skills and experience. The programme is delivered in partnership
with seven regional theatres, including Dukes Lancaster and Contact Theatre
Manchester. Each successful candidate will produce one new show over
their 30-month placement period, including sustained community engagement
and artists' development. Apply
online before 12pm on Monday 3 April.
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Live
Theatre is offering its annual Live Lab Bursary for innovative
approaches to text-based theatre. The bursary winner will receive £2000;
research and development support, as well as a performance slot at the
Elevator Festival in February 2018. Apply
via the Live Theatre website before Monday 3 April at 10am.
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The closing date for
contributing to Papaya
Press’s latest publication, WHAT SHE KNEW, has
been extended until Friday 15 April for New Writing North
subscribers. The collection is a response to the work of
short story writer Lydia Davis – meaning flash fiction is actively
encouraged!
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Crossing
the Tees Book Festival is looking to commission a
writer in residence to
work the duration of the festival (June 2017). The fee is £3,000 for 30
days’ work, which will include offering a series of writing workshops
across the Tees Valley. For more information, email emma.tennant@stockton.gov.uk (Deadline: Thursday 13 April).
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Apples
and Snakes are welcoming applications to their poetry podcast series,
Home Cooking,
until 30 April. Artists have a selection of themes to respond to:
‘Freedom’, ‘35 years of Apples and Snakes’ and ‘What is British poetry?’.
Successful applications will receive £150. Email kirsten@applesandsnakes.org for more
information.
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The
Great Exhibition of the North team is seeking
creative contributions from performers, visual artists, architects,
musicians, scientists, engineers, inventors, writers, creative, thinkers,
designers and digital makers. For more details, see: the
creative vision, callout guidelines
and
frequently asked questions. All submissions must be received
by noon on 22 May.
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The Creative Future Literary Awards
2017 are open to writers who lack opportunities due to
mental health issues, disability, health or social circumstance. Prizes
include £1,000 of cash prizes and writing development support. Apply by
26 June via the Creative
Future website.
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The
Word in South Shields continues to offer fun and supportive creative
writing workshops. Sarah Dobbs will lead Flash Fiction in a Flash: How to Write It and How to
Get It Published
at on Saturday 8 April (1.30-2.30pm). Tickets
can be booked in advance at £3 per person. Poet Kate Fox will
host two poetry slam-writing workshops on Saturday 13 May (1-3pm) and
Saturday 10 June (1-3pm). Tickets
available for £3.50.
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Writer Rachel Cochrane
will be leading a writers’
retreat at St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley Bay on Sunday
23 April (9.30am-4.30pm). Tickets can be booked
online and include refreshments.
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Lancaster
Words – a three-day celebration of the written and spoken word –
takes place between Thursday 6 and Saturday 8 July, featuring appearances
by writers and artists PJ Harvey, Paul Muldoon, Zen Cho, Carol Birch,
Jenn Asworth and Jo Bake. Tickets
are now available to book in advance.
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The
Tyneside
Writers’ Group meets at the Station East Pub in Gateshead and
bring together writers from different walks of life to give feedback and
receive suggestions from other members.
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Digital
Cities North East lands at BALTIC Centre
for Contemporary Art from 4–5 April, offering practical hands-on
workshops, to masterclasses, digital surgeries and exclusive keynotes.
Tickets are free but subject to availability, and can
be booked online via Eventbrite.
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One of New Writing
North’s Read Regional authors, Deborah Andrews, discusses her book Walking the Lights as
part of Hexham Book Festival on Tuesday 2 May. Tickets
cost £3.
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The
Poetry Book Society presents The
Northern Poetry Symposium at Sage Gateshead on Tuesday 9
May, in collaboration with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. Headline
speakers include Neil Astley (Bloodaxe), Isobel Colchester (Poet in the
City), Susannah Herbert (National Poetry Day), Eleanor Livingstone (Stanza Poetry
Festival) and Michael Schmidt (Carcanet). Book
via the Sage Gateshead website.
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Voted
the best poetry night in the UK by the Times, Bang! Said The Gun takes place at
Durham’s Gala Theatre on Friday 12 May at 8pm. Tickets
cost £15.
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After two successful
celebrations in 2013 and 2015, Cullercoats publisher IRON Press has
announced news of a third festival, to be held 8-11 June. Read more about
the programme so far at www.ironpress.co.uk or
on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/ironfestival.
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Hachette
UK has launched its new creative writing resource, The Future Bookshelf –
www.thefuturebookshelf.co.uk.
It is a creative writing hub for aspiring writers which aims to demystify
publishing and guide users of the website through the process of writing,
editing, submitting and publishing.
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A
creative writing
tutor is required for an adult education centre in Cheshire.
For more information please telephone Judi Goodwin on 01625 439000.
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Harrogate
Internaional Festivals has vacancies for a literature festivals manager
(maternity cover for approx. 14 months) and a literature festivals coordinator (maternity
cover for 9-12 months) to work on its festival portfolio. Deadline 17 April.
See harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/vacancies
for more info.
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Arvon is
recruiting an interim
centre director at Lumb Bank. The role is a maternity cover
for 34 hours per week, managing all aspects of the West Yorkshire writing
centre. Deadline 19
April. See www.arvon.org/about-us/arvon-jobs
for more information.
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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 24 April 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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