With details of jobs, opportunities, the winners of the 2017 NWAs and more, here is the latest New Writing North newsletter:
The latest news from New Writing
North
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Winners announced for Northern Writers’
Awards 2017
We are delighted to announce
the 27 winners of the Northern Writers’ Awards 2017, who between them share
an award fund worth £43,000 in cash prizes, bursaries and developmental
support.
The awards were presented on
Thursday 29 June at a ceremony in Newcastle. We received more than 1200
entries for the awards this year, so the winners fought off some really stiff
competition to impress our judges, the literary agent Elise Dillsworth,
authors Juno Dawson and Richard T Kelly and poet Clare Pollard, along with
editor and journalist Peter Wilby (judge of the Clare Swift Short Story
Award) and writers Debbie Taylor and Margaret Wilkinson (judges of the Andrea
Badenoch Fiction Award).
We hope you will join us in
congratulating them. Read
more...
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New Writing North: National Portfolio
Organisation
Earlier this week, Arts
Council England announced its National Portfolio for 2018-2022. We’re pleased
to tell you that New Writing North will once again be a National Portfolio
Organisation, which will allow us to continue and grow our work supporting
writers and readers in the North of England. Durham Book Festival, which we
programme, will also continue to receive funding from the National Portfolio
through Durham County Council’s festivals programme. So we’re full of plans
and very excited for the future!
It’s also been a great week
for many of our partner organisations across the region and the country,
whose creativity, ambition and impact is recognised by Arts Council England.
Our congratulations to all!
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Tickets on sale for Durham Book Festival for
Schools
We’re very excited to reveal
the first part of the Durham Book Festival 2017 programme, as we put the
tickets on sale for our schools festival, which takes place at Durham
Johnston Comprehensive School on 10 & 11 October. We have inspiring
events with award-winning authors, suitable for ages 4-18 with themes which
stretch across the curriculum, including citizenship, history, nature and
art. Find out more and book now.
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WriteNow: call for new writers
We’re thrilled to be working
with Penguin Random House UK on WriteNow
– a nationwide campaign to find and develop talented new writers from
under-represented communities.
WriteNow was created in 2016
to help ensure books and publishing better reflect UK society. It aims to
find unpublished voices that are currently under-represented in books across
all genres, including Fiction, Non-Fiction and Children’s. This includes
writers from a socio-economically marginalised background, LGBTQ (Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer) or BAME (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic) writers,
or writers with a disability.
We’re currently looking for
writers from these communities to apply for WriteNow Live, which takes place
in Newcastle on 23 September (as well as London on 9 September and Bristol on
16 September). 150 writers will be invited to attend the day where they will
receive one-to-one feedback on their work. From this group 10 exceptional
writers will join a year-long mentoring programme with editors at Penguin
Random House.
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More developments in Significant Ink
Our Significant Ink programme
is starting up in Lancashire this summer and we’re looking for aspiring
television writers from groups currently under-represented in the industry to
take part. We currently have free taster sessions on 12 and 19 August, with
more dates to follow.
Applications are now open for
our Significant Ink Professional Development Programme in Middlesbrough.
Apply by Tuesday 18 July through
our submissions portal.
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Prosper programme
New Writing North is one of
70 organisations and individuals across the arts, museums and libraries that
will benefit from free business support through Creative
United’s Prosper programme. The programme supports participants to
grow and develop into more resilient organisations, better able to attract
income from a variety of sources as well as pursue their creative and social
missions. We look forward to working with Creative United and the other arts
organisations on this programme.
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Cuckoo Young Writers’ Summer Schools 2017
This summer, Cuckoo, the arm
of New Writing North for children and young people, has a creative
writing summer school for every taste - join them for everything from song
writing to dark fiction, fan fiction to creating comics.
Cuckoo Young Writers’ Summer
Schools are for young people aged 12-19 who are interested in creative
writing, whether you’re a regular Cuckoo attendee or haven’t yet made it
along to a session. 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.
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Lethe Press is publishing Paul Magrs’ earliest novels again, after almost twenty
years. His ‘Phonenix Court’ trilogy is set in the council estates of Newton
Aycliffe in County Durham, where he grew up. His latest novel, Fellowship of Ink is published this month by
Snowbooks.
Sally Jubb, who
received a Northern Writers’ Award in 2015, recently won Wexford Literary
Festival's 2017 Colm Toibin International Short Story Award.
Newcastle poet Catherine Graham has
launched her third collection, Like A Fish Out Of Batter, which brings the
people in artist L. S. Lowry’s paintings to life.
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Adventures in Fiction are offering a start-up package to
promising synopses and first pages. The New Voices Competition is aimed at
writers who have completed 50 pages of their manuscript, with a mentoring
package worth up to £550 available. The
deadline for entries is Friday
21 July.
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Crossing the Tees
book festival invites writers to enter short stories for their inaugural
competition. Stories should be inspired by the Tees Valley area but writers
do not have to reside on Teesside to enter. (Max. 3,000 words / Prizes up
to £100.) The
deadline for entries is 30
September.
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Now
in its eleventh year, the Aesthetica
Creative Writing Award is currently open for entries.
Prizes include £1,000 for each category winner, publication for 60
shortlisted writers, a consultation with a literary agent, subscriptions to
leading writing organisations and a collection of books. The
deadline for submissions is 31
August.
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HarperCollins
is running its successful BAME
Traineeship for a second year. Successful candidates will
undertake a twelve-month traineeship around the business in London, with a
choice to develop in a wide range of teams from publicity, marketing and
editorial, to production, strategy and audio. Video submissions must be
made by Friday 14 July.
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Palm-Sized Press, a
recent expansion of the online flash fiction community, is now open for
submissions for its debut print zine. Flash fiction of up to 500 words on
the theme ‘Retrospective’ will be considered, as well as black & white
artwork. Submissions should be sent to palmsizedpress@gmail.com by 6 August.
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Bluemoose Books are looking for
stories from new writers and new voices for an anthology of short fiction
set on the North West coast, edited by the award-winning writer Jenn
Ashworth. (Max. 6,000 words). Send your work as a Word document attachment
to jenn.ashworth@gmail.com, including your
name, contact details, and a short bio, by 15 September.
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Bland on the Run Books
is currently welcoming submissions – in particular, female authors – to
feature on their website, which acts as a gallery to promote authors whose
work breaks some of the traditions of ‘conventional’ writing.
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Rachel
Cochrane is hosting a
writing retreat at Shepherd’s Dene Edwardian country house
and grounds in the Tyne
Valley, on Saturday
8 July (9.30am – 4.30pm). Bring along your own writing to
work on or be inspired by the beautiful and tranquil surroundings to start
something new. Light lunch and refreshments included. Tickets cost £36 (£34 for
rachelcochrane.com newsletter subscribers).
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Join
writers Elaine Cusack and Jennifer C Wilson for an afternoon workshop, Park and Write: exploring Wallsend
Parks, on Saturday
29 July at Wallsend Parks Community Pavilion. Tickets cost
£10 and can be booked via www.ticketsource.co.uk/thenextpage.
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Stephanie
Butland is running a writing retreat, ‘The Authentic
Voice’ at a luxury cottage in the North Yorkshire Moors, from Monday 6–Friday 11 November.
This retreat is all about making your writing ring true, and as one of five
students, you’ll be guaranteed time and attention. (Price based on sharing
a twin room: £650; balance payable no later than 30 September.) See
Stephanie’s website for further details.
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A 10-week ‘Reading
and Writing Fiction’ course at the Lit and Phil in
Newcastle, led by Ellen Phethean and Kathleen Kenny, will look at and
discuss examples of contemporary fiction. The course costs £90, payable at
the first meeting on Monday 18 September (6–8pm). This fee includes a
contribution to the Lit and Phil. Telephone 0191 232 0192 to reserve a
place.
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Deranged
Poetesses – a poetry event ‘exploring and reclaiming ideas of
derangement and the female muse’ – takes place at ARC Stockton on Saturday 1 July, 7pm.
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Mudfog
Press launches their new collection, Words
Are Water Springs, by Peter Adegbie, at Sunderland Chapel of Light
on Friday 7 July at
6pm. The poems address political issues in Nigeria, racism in the UK and
celebrate the personal and the spiritual of being human. For further
information contact Pauline Plummer: pauline.sonnet@blueyonder.co.uk.
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A Grey
Hen Press 10th Anniversary event takes place at Sale
Library in Manchester on Saturday
8 July, 2-4pm. Julia Deakin, Susanna Harding, Joy Howard,
Janet Loverseed and Frances Nagle will read poems from all the Grey Hen
anthologies.
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GemArts
award-winning
Masala Festival
returns, with a mix and blend of the finest South Asian Arts and
Culture, 17-23 July.
The North East’s very own South Asian Arts Festival offers audiences and
partners the opportunity to reflect on the past, celebrate the present and
get excited about the future.
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Talks
on Tyne – a series of six talks from Tyneside authors and
historians – takes place at Newcastle
Castle’s Black Gate on Wednesday evenings from 19 July-6 September.
The talks are delivered in partnership with Tyne Bridge Publishing and
Newcastle Libraries and tickets can be booked via www.newcastlecastle.co.uk/whats-0.
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Delegate bookings for TakeOff
Festival 2017 are now open. The festival will
run from 16–22 October and delegate dates will be 18–20 October.
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The
Reader is seeking a development
manager. Deadline Friday
11 July. Apply
here.
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Assemble Fest (AF) –
is looking to commission a graphic
designer. Deadline Wednesday
12 July. Apply
here.
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Sheffield
Theatres is seeking a communications
officer (maternity mover). Deadline Monday 17 July. Apply
here.
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Harrogate Theatre is
seeking an Education
Officer. Deadline Friday
21 July. Apply
here.
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If
you have news that you would like to be considered for inclusion in the
newsletter please contact laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com.
The deadline for receipt of information for the next newsletter is 24 July 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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