Sunday 18 August 2019

National Centre for Writing newsletters

Here are the latest National Centre for Writing newsletters for my followers to peruse:


Last chance to claim your early bird discount







New online courses - book now for early bird discount




Make space for your writing with our online courses designed in partnership with the University of East Anglia

Early bird offer until Monday 5 August - get 10% discount*

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Take your work to the next level with constructive feedback from an experienced tutor.

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* Offer does not apply to 'Writing Fiction: Next Steps with Anjali Joseph'


Designed in partnership with the prestigious School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia



Copyright © 2019 National Centre for Writing, All rights reserved.
Registered charity number: 1110725

Our mailing address is:
National Centre for Writing
Dragon Hall
115 - 123 King Street
Norwich, Norfolk NR1 1QE
United Kingdom


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Friendly, constructive and informal workshops based at Dragon Hall




The Writer's Toolkit

Online and in-person courses



Evening classes at Dragon Hall, Norwich



Ten-week fiction writing courses with
Ian Nettleton
From September/October, £225 / £200 conc
Through a combination of group discussion and one-to-one feedback, Ian Nettleton will equip you with the skills and knowledge to progress on your writing journey.

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Poetry Pulse with Anna Cathenka
(four-week course)
From Wednesday 30 October, 7 - 9pm, £75 / £65 conc
Using a mixture of discussion, writing exercises and (optional) individual feedback, poet Anna Cathenka will help you to sharpen your skills in balancing voice, meter and rhyme in your poetry. Suitable for writers of all levels.

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Workshops




How to Craft a Gripping Spy Thriller with 
Mick Herron
Friday 13 September, 11am - 1pm or 2 - 4pm, The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, £40 / £35 conc
Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series, will share his incomparable insights into crafting a compelling plot that will keep your reader hooked from the first page.

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Making a Murderer with Claire McGowan
Friday 13 September, 11am - 1pm or 2 - 4pm, The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, £40 / £35 conc
Learn how to develop a compelling lead character for your crime fiction – with the potential to carry a series. Delve deep into the psyche of your heroes and villains, and gain practical advice on how to construct scenes with emotional depth and range.

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Writing for Wellbeing with Shona Lowes
Thursday 26 September, 2 - 4pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £35 / £25 conc
Writer and clinical psychologist Shona Lowes will provide you with an understanding of writing as a reflective process, introducing tools to help you examine your life and experiences through creative writing.

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Memory & Taboo: An Introduction to Memoir with Monique Roffey
Saturday 16 November, 10am - 3pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £55 / £45 conc
Discover the tools for approaching hard-to-write subjects. Through a mixture of discussion, reading and writing you will explore memory and slowing down events, finding the right tone of voice and writing about living people.

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The Writer's Roadmap with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Molly Naylor and Edward Parnell
Saturday 30 November, 10am - 4pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £55 / £45 conc
With writing exercises to get your creativity flowing, opportunities for questions and plenty of time to connect with other writers, this inspiration day will illuminate your next steps wherever you are on your writing journey.

‘It made me feel my writing might have a future’ 
- 2018 participant

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Approaches to Contemporary Poetry with Jane Yeh
Saturday 7 December, 10am - 3pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £55 / £45 conc
Jane Yeh will guide you through her approach to crafting resonant, powerful poems. Exploring voice, structure, and imagery, you’ll dissect a range of contemporary poems before writing your own.

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Insight sessions

Find out the tricks of the trade and get answers to your questions from an experienced professional in our two-hour sessions.




Funding Insights with Arts Council England
Friday 27 September, 11am - 1pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, free entry
Open to anyone who wants to know more about how Arts Council England support and develop great work in literature, including information on the new Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice grants.

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Self-publishing Insights with Mandy Stanley
Friday 4 October, 2 - 4pm, National Centre for Writing, 
Dragon Hall, £45 / £35 conc
Popular children’s writer Many Stanley will share what she has learned moving from a traditional publishing house to self-publishing; the business of working for yourself and the creative opportunities self-publishing can bring.

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Meet the Editor with Ashley Stokes,
in Association with The Literary Consultancy
Friday 1 November, 2 - 4pm, National Centre for Writing, 
Dragon Hall, free entry
Professional editor Ashley Stokes will talk about the role of the editor and how critical feedback can help develop your writing. He will also workshop specific editing questions to help you get to grips with your writing.

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Agent Insights with Ed Wilson, Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency
Friday 22 November, 2 - 4pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £45 / £35 conc
Ed Wilson from the Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency will share his insights into what agents do, how they find and work with their authors, as well as his top tips for submitting your manuscript to agents.

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Read like a writer

Creative and sensitive reading is a must-have addition to any writer’s toolkit. In these friendly sessions combining discussion and a writing exercise, we’ll learn how some of the most exciting writers at work today gain inspiration and technique from the books they love.




Read like a Writer with Megan Bradbury
Thursday 17 October, 6 - 8pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £15 / £12 conc
Find out how Megan used creative reading as a tool in writing her own first novel Everyone is Watching, and, crucially, how she whittled down her reading and research into a form where her fiction could really take flight.

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Read Like a Writer with Feby Indirani
Wednesday 13 November, 6 - 8pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, £15 / £12 conc
Find out how Feby uses reading to inform her own work as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, in which she tackles subjects ranging from feminism to religion and spirituality.

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Bursary places

A limited number of free tickets are available for our workshops, inspiration days, and insights sessions, for those who would not otherwise be able to attend these events.
To find out more, visit nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

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New online courses announced - book now for early bird discount

  • An Introduction to Scriptwriting with Molly Naylor
  • Start Writing Crime Fiction with Nicola Upson
  • Start Writing Fiction with Mark McNay or Anjali Joseph
  • Start Writing Creative Non-Fiction with Dan Richards
  • Start Writing Poetry with Helen Ivory
  • Writing Fiction: Next Steps with Anjali Joseph

Early bird offer until Monday 5 August - get 10% discount

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Copyright © 2019 National Centre for Writing, All rights reserved.
Registered charity number: 1110725

Our mailing address is:
National Centre for Writing
Dragon Hall
115 - 123 King Street
Norwich, Norfolk NR1 1QE
United Kingdom


Plus ten-week fiction writing courses just announced





George Alagiah to give annual crime writing lecture
Tickets now on sale for Noirwich Crime Writing Festival

We are delighted to welcome BBC News at Six presenter and former award-winning Foreign Correspondent George Alagiah to Noirwich Crime Writing Festival for the annual crime writing lecture.

George's lecture will draw on a career at the BBC spanning over 30 years, weaving in details of violence, greed and corruption from his highly-anticipated crime novel The Burning Land. Don't miss the chance to enjoy an evening in the company of one of the nation’s foremost journalists – a respected figure with genuine insight on the state we find ourselves in.
     
Friday 13 September, 8pm, The Enterpise Centre, University of East Anglia

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Crime writing workshops

Our workshops are perfect for anyone looking to try their hand at writing crime fiction. Each workshop runs twice throughout the day purchase a combined package of both for £70.



Creating memorable characters with Claire McGowan
Friday 13 September, 11am - 1pm or 2 - 4pm, The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia

Delve deep into the psyche of your heroes and villains, and gain practical advice on how to construct scenes with emotional depth and range.

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Craft a Gripping Spy Thriller with Mick Herron
Friday 13 September, 11am - 1pm or 2 - 4pm, The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia

Mick Herron, author of the Jackson Lamb series, will share his incomparable insights into crafting a compelling plot that will keep your reader hooked from the first page.

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Noirwich Crime Writing Festival is a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and the University of East Anglia.





Elvira Dones in conversation
Albanian-Swiss author to discuss gender and multiculturalism with her translator and publisher

Join Albanian-Swiss author Elvira Dones, her translator Clarissa Botford and publisher Stefan Tobler as they discuss the journey of her first novel translated in to English, Sworn Virgin. The book, described by Kapka Kassabova in the Guardian as a 'gripping metamorphic tale' follows a fascinating tradition of women in northern Albania who live as men in their households.

Wednesday 24 July, 2pm National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

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Try your hand at travel writing

Try your hand at writing about your travels, both real and imagined, in this workshop led by experienced travel writers Suzanne Joinson (UK, author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar) and Agustinus Wibowo (Indonesia, author of Ground Zero). Use the evocative power of both place and memory, fact and fiction, to create spellbinding works of travel writing. 

Thursday 22 August, 2 - 5pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

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Just announced: Ten-week fiction writing courses with Ian Nettleton
Beginner, intermediate and advanced courses now available

Experienced tutor Ian Nettleton has been leading sold-out fiction courses at NCW for a number of years. Through a combination of group discussion and one-to-one feedback, he will equip you with the skills and knowledge to progress on your writing journey.




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Free events for the writing community



Dragon Hall Salon: a translation special
Tuesday 16 July, 6.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Open to anyone who makes, reads and works with words, the Dragon Hall Salon is an opportunity to meet people, cook up plans, talk books, and to hear what’s happening in Norwich. This month, we're celebrating the art of translation and the fantastic people who make it happen.

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New! Drop-in writing time
Thursday 26 September, 5.30pm, National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall

Join us after work each month for a free drop-in writing session! We’ll start off with a mini writing exercise, before 50 minutes uninterrupted writing time, followed by a final half hour of mingling. Bring your favourite notebook or your laptop, and we’ll bring the tea and biscuits.

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We need your feedback!

Have you attended an event or workshop with since April 2019?

We are carrying out a survey to help us learn more about our audiences as a requirement of our Arts Council funding and would be very grateful for your feedback.

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Call for applications: Tartu City of Literature International Residency Program
Deadline: Thursday 15 August
Tartu City of Literature Office is seeking applications for a two-month residency in Tartu City of Literature, Estonia between October - November 2019. All non-Estonian residing writers and translators (translating from Estonian to other languages) are welcome to apply. Find out more >>

Call for applications: Prague UNESCO City of Literature two-month residencies
Deadline: Saturday 31 August
Prague UNESCO City of Literature is offering six creative residencies in 2020, each lasting two months. Successful residents will receive travel, accommodation and a stipend of €600 per month.

The Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction
Deadline: Friday 25 October
Comma Press and the University of Central Lancashire are proud to host the annual Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction. Submit 2000 - 6000 words on the theme of 'Artificial Intelligence' for your chance to win some amazing prizes. Find out more >>





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The National Centre for Writing is supported by:


Copyright © 2019 National Centre for Writing, All rights reserved.
Registered charity number: 1110725

Our mailing address is:
National Centre for Writing
Dragon Hall
115 - 123 King Street
Norwich, Norfolk NR1 1QE
United Kingdom


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