The 10th Annual Lowdham book festival was a fantastic event this year and we now have some photos from the event which you can link to from Facebook:
http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=701542&l=f1dffa6e9b&id=1197021327
Nws News Archive 2009
This page contains news stories from 2009. For news from the current year, turn to our main news page.
NWS Christmas Party and Weathervane Press Book Launch: Thurs 3rd December (doors open 7pm onwards) Author readings and introduction from Ian Collinson starts 7.30pm for half an hour – please aim to arrive by 7.15pm – followed by a Christmas social/party. Wine and nibbles are complimentary all night (until they run out) but you’re welcome to bring something along to add to the fun. Do come and enjoy the final NWS social gathering for 2010 and help celebrate all we’ve achieved in 2009!
No Entry to NWS Hotdesk Thursday 26th and Friday 27th November: I’m afraid the hotdesking area is closed for a meeting on Thursday 26th November all day and both the Hotdesking and Main Meeting Area are closed to members on Friday 27th November from 1pm-5pm. If you are desperate for a space to work please let me know and I’ll find you another area to work in.
NWS Members: We Need Your Input
We think it would be
really useful to have a list of what NWS members have produced
(published, performed, created, been awarded etc) in the last 12 months.
I would really like to encoarage all members to inform me of their
individual news/successes so that there can be a regular slot in the
newsletters listing what you have done! This would greatly improve our
chances of getting to know each other better beyond the social evenings
and also may have a positive influence on the funding application that
we're in the process of writing.
We'd also like members to tell us
what work they have had that has been generated either by NWS or through
networking with or advice from another NWS member - ie what
micro-employment is NWS making by dint of bringing together a group of
independent writers? For example: some members have given talks at the
University of Nottingham set up by Board member Arthur Piper; Niki
Monaghan and others have interviewed writers at 'NWS presents' that
James Urquart set up at Broadway, which also generated some income for
NWS. And of course there have been events with LeftLion Magazine where
members have read and performed.
Please can you respond within the
next fortnight - even if you think your contribution is negligible? In
terms of general news about what you are doing, please continue to send
this to me on an on-going basis. It should not be a long in-depth letter
- just a list of events and activities with explanation and
weblinks/contacts (where necessary) will be fine. admin@nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk
Poetry Workshop through Nottingham Contemporary
Eireann
Lorsung be teaching a poetry workshop through Nottingham Contemporary.
It will run three Thursdays, December 3, 10, 17, in the evening. The
cost is £25/£15
concessions, payable to the gallery on the first day. If you're
interested, let Eireann know as soon as possible and she’ll email the
programming people and reserve you a spot--there are only 8, so it
might go quickly. (see attachment)
Nottingham Poetry Series
http://www.nottinghampoetryseries.com
EM Media's Talent Network and Doc/Fest present The Engine Room Pitch
This
two-day pitch documentary pitching and marketplace workshop, run in
partnership with Wide Eye Pictures, offers complete preparation for
getting your factual project funded internationally.
Documentary
producers and filmmakers from the East Midlands and beyond are invited
to take part in a documentary pitching and marketplace offering complete
preparation for getting your factual project funded internationally,
including at Doc/Fest’s Marketplace 2010, and other international
markets.
This workshop is open to all levels of experience from New
Entrants to established producers and directors, and applicants can be
from any region of the UK, but we especially invite East Midlands
filmmakers.
The Engine Room Pitch
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 February
Broadway Cinema, Broad Street, Nottingham
Sally Hodgson
Communications Executive
EM Media
FilmGamesTVInteractivet: 0115 934 9090
f: 0115 950 0988
w: www.em-media.org.uk
Connecting the literature community
A Literature Network publication
http://literaturenetwork.org
November
brings new publications from Weathervane Press, and new novels and a
poetry collection from Sue Moorcroft and Cathy Grindrod respectively.
Ross Bradshaw share his diary of a literary holiday, and we discuss what
it is we really want from our bookshops. And Derbyshire County Council
are looking for a Reading Champion. Are you the one to take up their
gauntlet!?
Nottingham Comedy Festival (NCF) Writing Workshop
NCF are
now putting on a full day workshop in Comedy Writing with Rob Gee. Rob
is a performance poet, comic, workshop leader and reformed psychiatric
nurse, he combines elements of theatre, comedy and literature in his
live act. From diabolical chat up lines to the end of the world, he
insists the human tragedy is a gleeful comedy. Fast, furious and very
funny, Rob uses inventive wordplay, whiplash couplets and motored rhythm
to tap into the world of chaos and adventure that lurks behind the
veneer of everyday life.
This is a free event so it is recommended
that you book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets are available at
Nottingham Central Library.
Nottingham Comedy Festival
30th October - 7th November 2009
07540386364 / 07989454817
www.nottscomedyfestival.co.uk
Chance to promote your work!! Ian Collinson (NWS Member) has kindly organised a literature showcase at Kiosk Kiosk (see below for details.) Where do we come in??...well...
Tuesday 8th December:
AM - Nottingham Writers Studio - Support and networking for published and aspiring
local writers.
www.nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk 49 Stoney Street, The Lace Market Nottingham.
- Meet coordinator Aly Stoneman. Published members of the Studio will be visiting during the
morning.
This is a great opportunity to promote yourself and your work! So would you like to bring in some books/pamphletts/leaflets to sell/display on the Kiosk that morning or pop along to share the shivering misery (I mean warm glow) with a thermos of coffee (hazelnut latte please) and porta potty for me?! As you can see there are lots of other literature people and publishers to support so try to stop by if you're in town over the 3 days (8-10 Dec). Any books you would like to promote you can leave with me at the Christmas party on 3rd of December, in the office on my desk or in reception downstairs with a note of sale price. You will be responsible to collect any no-sales and your payment for any books sold in December. I'm limiting it to 3 books each just because I'll have to carry them! But any leaflets for events etc can go up! Hope you'll all get involved! x aly
PRESS RELEASE
KiosKiosk Nottingham December 8-10th 2009
KiosKiosk is a fast brain food stall invented by top fashion designer Wayne
Hemmingway. It’s located on the Pelham Street-Thurland Street junction in
Nottingham City centre, just up the road from Market Square.
Several Nottingham publishers and Nottingham Writers’ Studio have joined
forces to bring together a selection of their recent publications, which will be
on sale December 8-10th. Each publisher will be in attendance at the times
listed below and their books will be on sale for the entire three day event.
Tuesday 8th December:
AM - Nottingham Writers Studio - Support and networking for published and aspiring
local writers.
www.nottinghamwritersstudio.co.uk 49 Stoney Street, The Lace Market Nottingham.
- Meet coordinator Aly Stoneman. Published members of the Studio will be visiting during the
morning.
PM - Weathervane Press - Nottingham based regional fiction publisher.
www.weathervanepress.co.uk
Meet the publisher Ian Collinson from 1pm.
- Recently published local authors Marty Ross (Aztec Love Song) and Steven Wilcoxson
(Make Less Strangers) will be available from 2pm to discuss their work and sign copies of
their books.
Wednesday 9th December.
AM - Candlestick Press - Publisher of the unique and hugely popular 'Instead of Card'
poetry pamphlets.
www.candlestickpress.co.uk
-Meet the publisher Jenny Swann and stock up on Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's selection
'The Twelve Poems of Christmas.'
PM - Left Lion Literary Confessional. Absolve yourself with Left Lion.
www.leftlion.co.uk
Thursday 10th December
AM - Staple Magazine - Literature and Arts magazine produced in Nottingham, now
receiving national acclaim.
www.staplemagazine.bigcartel.com
Meet the Editor Wayne Burrows.
-The current 'Art Issue' and back numbers of the magazine will be on sale.
PM - Pewter Rose Press-Nottingham based fiction publisher specialising in short stories.
www.pewter-rose-press.com
Meet the publisher Anne McDonnell from 1pm
Authors - Frances Thimann (Cello and other stories) and Roberta Dewa (Holding Stones) will
be available during the afternoon to discuss their work and sign copies of their books.
Publish NG is a group of independent Nottingham publishers
c/o Parker and Collinson Ltd, 42 Church St, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2FH
Telephone 0115 9420140
Wednesday 4th November 2009
2.30pm - COMEDY WRITING WORKSHOP with Rob Gee - Nottingham Central Library
Develop your comedy writing skills with acclaimed comic and
performance poet Rob Gee. Part of the Nottingham Comedy Festival. About
Rob Gee: Performance poet, comic, workshop leader and reformed
psychiatric nurse, Rob combines elements of theatre, comedy and
literature in his live act. From diabolical chat up lines to the end of
the world, he insists the human tragedy is a gleeful comedy. Fast,
furious and very funny, Rob uses inventive wordplay, whiplash couplets
and motored rhythm to tap into the world of chaos and adventure that
lurks behind the veneer of everyday life.
Ticket price: £5 or £4
concessions. Tickets available from Nottingham Central Library ground
floor reception or call 0115 9152824. Places are limited so book early
to avoid disappointment.
Puppetry Success for NWS member
Marcus Clarke of Hands Up Puppets who specialises in Teaching TV Puppetry or Puppetry for the Screen in Notts has had two TV Series that he performs Puppet characters in nominated for this years Kids BAFTA's 2009. Read the full story....
Celebrate Black History Season with Nottingham City Council Libraries…
Journeys to the Caribbean
Meadows Library, Wilford Grove.
7 November 2009, 10.30am-12.30pm
Discover traditional African and Caribbean tales with Clive Dennis Cole and create your own imaginative stories.
Suitable for all ages. FREE event. For further details call 0115 915 9279
Discover your Stories
Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row
14 November 2009, 11am-3.30pm
Come and discover your African and Caribbean histories. Activities include:
è Advice and information on how to trace your African and Caribbean family history
è Watch a film on the Black experience in Nottingham
è Listen to a talk by the International Slavery Museum
è Join in with art & craft activities with Nottingham Museum and an opportunity to reminisce with local people about African and Caribbean history.
è Please bring any materials and photographs for us to scan on the day so that we can preserve and capture your stories.
Suitable for all ages. FREE event. For further details call 0115 915 2873
Readers Day November 21st
Join us for the 6th Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Libraries Readers Day. An all day event for book lovers
County Hall, West Bridgford 9.30-4pm
Join us for speakers Helen Dunmore and Hardeep Singh Kohli, plus sessions with Jenny Hartley, Judith Allnat, Jon McGregor, Deirdre O’Byrne, Tom Warner, Ross Bradshaw, Bea Udah, Sheelagh Gallagher, Catherine Arnold, and Ann Hardwick.
Pre booking for this event is essential.
If you would like further information on this event, please contact me for a booking form by telephoning 0115 9152813 or emailing jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
The day costs £15 or £12 if booked before October 31st. Concessionary rate for over 60’s, students and unwaged is £12 or £10 if booked before 31st October.
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
An Informal Evening With Mark Charan Newton
Thursday 12th November 7pm
Nottingham Central Library
An evening of chat and advice for aspiring writers within this genre and for people interested in science fiction and fantasy writing.
Mark Charan Newton is the author of “Nights of Villjamur”. He has also worked in the publishing and bookselling industry.
This is a free event. Please ask for a ticket at the Central Library Helpdesk. For further details contact Jane: tel 0115 9152813 or email jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Flying Goose Readings
All events are at The Flying Goose Cafe, 33 Chilwell Road, Beeston and run from 7.30 - 9.30 on the third Tuesday of each month
Tickets cost £3 on the door, which includes a glass of wine
Tuesday 17 November
Derrick Buttress (poet, new collection Destinations) and Cathy Grindrod (poet, new collection The Sky, Head On)
Tuesday 15 December
Christmas event - readings from the floor, mystery guest. That sort of thing
Tuesday 19 January
Eirann Lorsung (poet, collection called Music for Landing Planes) and Dan Tunstall (young adult fiction, Big and Clever(
Tuesday 16 February
Andy Croft and WN Herbert reading from Three Men on the Metro poetry collection
Tuesday 16 March
Deryn Rees-Jones (poet, edited Bloodaxe Modern Women Poets) and John Levett (poet, latest collection A Slight Delay)
More detailed programmes are available from info@fiveleaves.co.uk
LeftLion Magazine have shared a few audio links this month:
James Johnson and Ian Collinson interview
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2697
Aly Stoneman and Nicola Monaghan discuss NWS
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2698
LEFTLION SCOOP PUBLISHING AWARD at Nottingham Creative Business Awards: http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/2694
Tender For Applications
Map extension 2009-2010
During the last eighteen years, the Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes have been fostering and supporting promotion and mobility of young artists amongst the European artistic scene.
In the frame of the map extension 2009-2010 programme, Pépinières launch a new call for applications for Script Writer’s Residency.
In a joint-venture the Binger Filmlab and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency offer a special programme for literary writers in autumn 2010. Foreign writers can apply for a residency period of five months starting in September through to January 2011. The conditions are that you're a published writer under 36 in 2010 and that you have the ambition to follow the Script Development Programme at the Dutch institute Binger Filmlab. This programme, at the crossroads of Literature and Film, offers the opportunity to work on one of your own (un)published texts and adapt it into a film script. Internationally acclaimed mentors and advisors coach the participants along the way. Some basic knowledge of scenario writing is required. Writers who already have experience with the film industry and whose work is translated into Dutch are given priority. All candidates must be under contract with a publishing house in their country of origin and speak and write a sufficient level of English. A precise description of the adaptation plan you have in mind is an essential part of every application.
The Amsterdam Writer's Residency has worked with the Binger Filmlab before when in 2007 Witi Ihimaera, a Maori author from New-Zealand, adapted his novel The Matriarch (1986), about the Maori struggle against the loss of their sovereignty, into a film script. Ihimaera found living space in the Spui apartment. www.binger.nl and www.writerinresidence.nl
For further information visit our website: www.art4eu.net or contact us at: map-extension@art4eu.net
Fully completed files can be submitted at Trans Artists, National Co-ordinator for the Netherlands. E-mail address: m.tuerlings@transartists.nl
n: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"> 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';" lang="EN-GB">Deadline for application: 1st of December 2009 (midnight Brussels time)
Calling writers, directors and writer/directors! EM Media launches DV Shorts scheme
As part of its overall film development strategy EM Media is looking to gather a talented group of emerging and established writers, writer/directors and directors with the vision required to make short films that can surprise, challenge, delight and mesmerise international audiences. Applications are welcome from individuals from a range of creative backgrounds, with a range of personal and professional experience. Applicants must be based in the East Midlands region. The deadline for applications is noon on Monday 2 November. See EM Media’s website for further information. http://www.em-media.org.uk.
Coming Up! Word Of Mouth!
Nicola Monaghan is curating the next Word of Mouth, to take place on November 11th. We’re planning to have mulled wine and an autumn/winter feel to the evening. We have lots of exciting opportunities for the NWS members whose work has been selected, including the opportunity to have work performed by Royal Company actors, free training by a professional actor at the Royal Centre for those who would like to read their own work and the possibility of your work being featured in local media including radio and podcasts. WOM will also be featured as a podcast on our shiny new NWS Website (due to be launched in October!) with links from our Facebook site, so your work will have a global reach! For new members and those who haven’t attended yet, Word of Mouth is an evening of spoken word run by Nottingham Writers’ Studio upstairs at The Royal Centre in Nottingham (next to The Royal Concert Hall.) There is a tram stop right next to the building (the Theatre Royal stop) so you can always park at the Forest park and ride if you’re from out of town. The evening includes a 15 minute interval and is very friendly. We usually have between six to eight writers reading – work can range from poetry to script, short stories, extracts from forth-coming novels or even journals or academic essays and reviews. New writing is preferred. The curator will also read – on this occasion Nicola will read from her novel-in-progress Blind, Following - something of a coup as it is not yet published. The event is open to the public and we are keen to attract a larger audience so even if you're not reading, do come along and enjoy the performances and social evening – you never know who you might meet!
July Word of Mouth
Looking back at July I realise I haven’t mentioned the last Word of Mouth event at the Royal Centre in Nottingham. For those unfamiliar with the event, it is a showcase for NWS members to perform new work to other members and the public. The July event was curated by Michael Eaton and he did a great job, choosing some really fantastic and varied work from our members. I’ll let the write-up from LeftLion Magazine do the talking – please follow the link below. The next Word of Mouth will be on Wednesday 11th November from 7pm and will be curated by Nicola Monaghan. http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm?id=2610
Self-Publishing and Online Media Talk
July Social - we had a fantastic evening with independent publisher Ian Collinson (Weathervane Press) and Graphic Designer/Novelist/New College Nottingham Course Leader Richard Johnson discussing Self Publishing and alternative routes into publishing, including online opportunities. I have now managed to upload this enormous file onto DivShare so if you click on the link below it will take you through to the podcast which is around 1.5 hours long. With Div share you need to wait for the play icon to pop up on the screen and then click on that for the podcast to start.
| NWSjuly09.mp3: | http://www.divshare.com/download/8180278-bd6 |
NWS Tent at Lowdham Book Festival
NWS Tent at Lowdham Book Festival this year for the very first time,
on Saturday 27th June, adding to a fabulous line-up which marked the
10th year of the festival at Lowdham. All of our events were free and
the day also included a large book fair, at which our small independent
publishers had stalls. Megan Taylor (How We Were Lost) kicked off the day in the NWS Marquee with “There’s
No Place Like Home”, a practical creative writing workshop. She
encouraged participants to transform childhood memories of real places
into fiction and perhaps find the beginnings a whole new story.
This was followed by If in doubt – bring in a man with a gun” with Nick Wood taking a not entirely serious look at playwriting with actors from the
Royal Company providing examples of the best and the worst ways to solve
the problems of exposition, character, tension and all those tricky
bits and pieces that help to make a play work.
Lowdham favourite, Derrick Buttress, read from his new poetry collection, Destinations, introduced by John Lucas, from Shoestring Press and
keeping with the poetic element, “Love, Bicycles and Puddings” – and
Candlestick Press was a beguiling talk by Jenny Swann introducing Candlestick Press and her belief that poetry needs its own little slot in people’s
everyday life. Her work in publishing and marketing popular and
accessible poetry pamphlets full of wit, wisdom, love and bicycles,
bring a mixture of well known and new work to a large audience and
certainly entertained us at Lowdham. Nicola Monaghan surprisedand delighted another ‘Full House’ with a reading from a new
short story featured in a writing anthology produced by students on the
course she runs in Birmingham.
My First Book with Nigel Smith
supplied a fitting end to the day with short stories, poems and
biographical pieces defending the humble book!
All in all a fantastic day and thanks to Sarah Carleton for volunteering on the door and to all the readers named above and attendees for helping to make the NWS Marquee a really popular event. There are a few photos on the link below and the official site has plenty of info and pictures: http://www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk/.
http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=701542&l=f1dffa6e9b&id=1197021327
June Monthly Social and Poetry Readings
June's monthly NWS Social provided Ian Collinson and myself with the opportunity to practice our podcasting skills, the product of which can be tested on the link below. In honour of the BBC’s Poetry Season, members brought their favorite poems to share, mostly by other authors, although a few brave souls also read their own work, which was very well received. Readers included Ian Collinson, (winner of Nottingham Poetry Society’s Open Poetry Slam 2008 and editor of Weathervane Press), Wayne Burrows (editor of Staple Magazine), David Belbin (Course Leader of NTU’s MA in Creative Writing), new member Rowland Nelkin (who amazed everyone with his ability to recite Jacobean poetry from memory) and our guests James Walker (LeftLion Magazine’s Literature Editor) and Eireann Lorsung, (a PHD student from Nottingham University), who recently started the excellent Poetry Series at the Lakeside venue on Beeston Campus. It was great to hear a fantastic range of poetry – from John Donne to Charles Bukowski – being performed in a fun and informal setting. If you’d like to hear the session for yourself then please click on the link below (which will take you to DivShare) then select the play symbol on the pop-up bar.
Clayfields House Film wins Koestler Writers award
September 3, 2009
Puppet Live Action Film, Directed and Produced by NWS member Marcus Clarke of Hands Up Productions Limited and entitled, ‘Clayfields House Film' has won a Koestler Award. The film was made by Marcus with only the help of the young people and staff of Clayfields House Secure Children's Home in Nottinghamshire
Artform
‘Off-the-Cuff Speaking'
Award
Writers in Prison Network, Under 18's Special Award
Lowdham Book Festival – Photos on Facebook!
August 26, 2009
Nottingham Writers’ Studio on Facebook!
August 26, 2009
If you aren’t friends already – join us for updates on events, photo’s etc!
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1197021327&ref=name
1 fab event and 2 podcasts!
August 13, 2009
Word of Mouth in July was a great platform for some really
interesting writing, so thanks to Michael Eaton who kindly curated the
event and to everyone who took part.
Full review of the event in LeftLion Magazine Online: http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm?id=2610
Back in July we had a fantastic evening with independent publisher Ian Collinson (Weathervane Press) and Graphic Designer/Novelist/New College Nottingham Course Leader Richard Johnson discussing Self Publishing and alternative routes into publishing, including online opportunities. I have finally managed to upload this file onto DivShare so if you click on the link below or copy it into your browser it will take you through to the podcast which is around 1.5 hours long. With Div share you need to wait for the play icon to pop up on the screen and then click on that for the podcast to start. It can also be accessed from the NWS website – Blog page.
| NWSjuly09.mp3: | http://www.divshare.com/download/8180278-bd6 |
Long term supporter of NWS, LeftLion Magazine, have just produced their first podcast called WriteLion. This is a spoken word related podcast that intends to promote all
facets of the written word. The first podcast includes screenwriter
Jamie Rhodes, poetry from up-and-coming members of the LeftLion creative
writing forum and Rosie Gardner, Michelle ‘mother’ Hubbard and Louise
Ashley reading their winning entries to the Nottingham Poetry Society
competition. If you want to be interviewed, promote your work or have
information you wish to share please contact James Walker at books@leftlion.co.uk
You can hear the podcast at http://www.leftlion.co.uk/audio.cfm/id/37
Opportunities for Poets
August 13, 2009
OPPORTUNITIES/ SUBMISSIONS
SUBMISSIONS FOR NOTTINGHAM POETRY SERIES
Submissions
are invited for Nottingham Poetry Series, which holds three juried
readings a year, each featuring one invited reader and two chosen from a
pool of submitted work. We invite submissions from poets for our
October reading with George Szirtes (http://www.georgeszirtes.co.uk/). Please feel free to forward this information.
When to submit:
Submissions for the reading on October 22nd, 2009 (with George Szirtes) are open August 10-September 4, inclusive.
Response times:
Authors
of successful submissions will be notified during the week following
the last day of the submission period. We regret that due to the volume
of submissions we are unable to notify unsuccessful applicants.
How to submit:
Submit via email only to submissions@nottinghampoetryseries.com
Submissions
may include up to eight poems as a single Microsoft Word document. Put
your name, email address, postal address, and telephone number, as well
as the titles of all submitted poems, on a cover sheet. Do not include
your name on any of the poems. A covering letter, including any relevant
publications, is optional.
What we’re looking for:
The Nottingham
Poetry Series aims to offer the public well-crafted, exciting,
challenging poetry that is effective on and off the page, read by poets
whose presence is commanding, open, and generous.
You can, as always, find out more about the Poetry Series, the readings, and ways to get involved at http://www.nottinghampoetryseries.com. The submissions information page is http://nottinghampoetryseries.com/submissions.html .
NOTTINGHAM
POETRY SERIES are also organising LINES FOR THE CITY, a
Nottingham-based poetry reading initiative presented by the Nottingham
Poetry Series and Nottingham City Libraries, which will run from August
through October. Like the Big Read in U.S. cities (where each city
chooses a book which is then made available for general reading through
the libraries, which facilitate reading discussion groups and other
events), Lines for the City is intended to promote the reading and
discussion of poetry in Nottingham. Lines for the City has designated
Melissa Kwasny’s book Reading Novalis in Montana as the first book in
the program, and has worked with the publisher (Milkweed Editions, US; http://www.milkweed.org)
to provide a reading guide. At the end of August, three discussion
groups will meet at libraries around the city, giving readers a chance
to share and discuss their experience with each other. http://www.nottinghampoetryseries.com or see NWS Website for more info.
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INDIGO DREAMS PUBLISHING COMPETITION – POETRY
Hi,
we have recently relocated to Leics and were wondering if the following
competition may be of interest to your group. We also publish 3
magazines, details at www.indigodreamspress.co.uk. Many thanks, Ronnie Goodyer
Indigo Dreams Winter Poetry Collection Competition 2009
Three
winners will have collection published by Indigo Dreams Publishing and
receive 50 copies of 44 pages stapled booklet with opportunity to
upgrade to perfect bound (spine) with min 52 pages for balance amount.
Submission: Selection of 10-15 poems to 36 lines max.
Entry Fee: £18 per block of poems
Closing Date: Friday 20th November 2009
Email submissions – see website www.indigodreamspublishing.co.uk
Cheque
payable to ‘IDP’ and entries to Indigo Dreams Winter Collection, 132
Hinckley Road, Stoney Stanton, Leics LE9 4LN or PayPal from website.
Please email any queries to dawnidp@btinternet.com Full details/email/overseas entries visit www.indigodreamspublishing.co.uk
See
all opportunities for publishing poetry and prose in our magazines:
Reach Poetry, The Dawntreader, and Sarasvati using our websites www.indigodreamspress.co.uk or www.reachpoetry.com. More publishing opportunities, competitions for publication and IDP books for sale at www.indigodreamspublishing.co.uk Email for further details or a sample copy.
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FREE POETRY COMPETITIONS FROM UNITED PRESS
There’s
a £100 first prize in the United Press open competition, Fact and
Fantasy. You can enter by post or email and make sure you put “Fact and
Fantasy” at the top of your entry. Your poem can be on any subject you
like but must be no more than 160 words or 20 lines, and you can’t use
“Fact and Fantasy” as the title. Send your entries now because this
competition closes in September. There’s also a £1000 prize to the
winner of our annual Local Poem competition. You must put “Local Poem”
at the top of your entry and the theme must be someone or something
local. You can submit online, or post (see website for details).
http://www.unitedpress.co.uk/
NWS Members doing great things!
August 13, 2009
NWS member Cathy Grindrod has a new website – www.cathygrindrod.co.uk
describing
the projects she’s been involved in and the services she offers, which
includes workshops, and managing residencies and participatory
literature projects, but also services for writers both individually and
in groups. Cathy has also won second prize in the East Midlands New
Perspectives/Theatre Writing Partnership Dream Up Monologue Writing
Competition. The winning monologues are to be performed in a showcase in
the near future.
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KEVIN FEGAN IN THE STUDIO THEATRE AT THE PLAYHOUSE THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 6PM
Kevin
Fegan will be performing his dramatic poem of migrant workers Let Your
Left Hand Sing. One morning on his way to work Kevin decided he would
knock on all his neighbours doors, not just to say hello but to find out
what their stories where. By the time he’d reached the end of the
street he’d met pretty much half the populations of the world and they
where just like him. Let Your Left Hand Sing recounts these stories as
well as Kevin’s own. Kevin has written over 40 plays for the stage, 7
plays for BBC Radio 4 plus a Woman’s Hour Serial and a Classic Serial, a
few short films plus a spell as a Storyline Writer for Coronation St
and 8 volumes of poetry.
Tickets: £6 from The Playhouse Box Office 0115 941 9419
For more information on Kevin please go to www.kevinfegan.co.uk. For more information on forthcoming shows at Nottingham Playhouse please visit www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
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Buy Poetry and Support Your Independent Presses!
June 26, 2009
If you follow any poetry related news (beyond Ruth Padel and Derek
Walcott) Chris and Jen (Salt Directors) have been struggling to keep
Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to
affect their press. Their three year funding ends this year, and they
cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt’s
operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and
despite April’s much improved trading, the past twelve months has left
them with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It’s proving to be a very
big hole and they’re having to take some drastic measures to save their
business.
They’re asking you to buy just one book, right now. They
don’t mind from where, you can buy it from them or from Amazon, your
local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book
now, you’ll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here.
They need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it
alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to their online store and
help keep them going.
It’s often said that there are many more
writers of poetry than there are readers of poetry. Salt is responsible
for publishing a few Metaroar/FYI favourites, including Anthony Joseph,
whose new collection (http://bit.ly/X1JOE) launches officially on the 3rd of June (http://bit.ly/JbNKo). Support your independent presses!by James Walker, Literature Editor at LeftLion Magazine
Friday July 10th -Sat 18th – Southwell Poetry Festival
June 18, 2009
NWS members Kevin Fegan, Jenny Swann, Ross Bradshaw and Cathy Grinrod feature among a great line-up which includes Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze and Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Copies of the Southwell Library Poetry Festival programme are available from Southwell Library and appear on www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/southwellpoetryfestival.pdf or from southwell.library@nottscc.gov.uk.
