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One Act Play competition
Posted: 29 Jan 2012 by Madeleine Price
(Posted by MP 29 January 2012
Anyone with a strength for dialogue could well be a latent playwright! Visit the link and have a think.)
Would your writing group be interested in our One Act Playwriting Competition? The closing date is 30th March.
All details can be found on our website www.skybluetheatre.com on the events page or you can follow the link to go straight to the competition page http://www.skybluetheatre.com/Upcoming.php
Anne Bartram
anne@skybluetheatre.com
Tel:
01223 529491
07850097520
Chichester Writing Festival
Posted: 27 Jan 2012 by Madeleine Price
The sender attached a PDF giving all details of the festival but I don't know how to attach such an exotic beast to this news item! So I've put the link at the end of her message, which will probably do! ((MP 27 January 2012))
Running from lunchtime on Friday 30th March to teatime on
Sunday 1st April 2012, the Chichester Writing Festival offers an extraordinary opportunity for published and unpublished authors to come together, debate and find out about all aspects of the art, craft and business of writing.
This year, Festival Director Kate Mosse will take a break from the filming of Labyrinth and editing her new novel Citadel to interview three brilliant, contrasting headline authors in AN AUDIENCE WITH:-
- Mark Billingham, author of ten straight SundayTimes bestselling novels, twice Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year, recipient of seven Crime Writers Association Daggers, adapted for TV starring David Morrissey as Thorne
- Joanna Trollope, chair of judges of next year’s Orange Prize for Fiction, an author of compelling non-fiction, historical novels and a string of massive contemporary successes, most recently the number one best-seller Daughters-in-Law
- Francesca Simon, ex-medievalist, graduate of Yale and Oxford, originally from St Louis, Missouri, now one of the UK’s best-selling children’s writers, the creator of the immensely popular Horrid Henry series (15m copies and counting ...)
Debbie Tyne
www.westdean.org.uk/Events/ChichesterWritingFestival.aspx
Reminder - Fylde Brighter Writers competitions
Posted: 12 Jan 2012 by Madeleine Price
Just letting you know that the Fylde Brighter Writers Circle Prize is back for 2012.
All the details are on our website at:
www.brighterwriters.org.uk
Brief details below.
Short Stories
First Prize : £200 (and a trophy!)
Second Prize : £50
Runners Up: £25 x 3
Stories can have a maximum of 2,500 words)
Poetry
First Prize £100 (and a trophy as well)
Second Prize: £50
Runners Up: £25 x 2
Poems can have a maximum of 60 lines)
Closing date: 28th April 2012
Short list announced May 2012 and winners will be notified by June 2012 (we take our time judging our entries thoroughly)
Entry Short Story : £5 per short story or three stories for £10
Entry Poetry : £3 per poem or three poems for £5
Postal or On-line entry and payment options available.
Winning entries will be published in our 2012 Anthology. Our 2011 anthology is on Amazon and can be viewed - or even bought - here!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Season-Brighter-Writers/dp/1446604810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325787215&sr=8-1
Writing Raw
Posted: 8 Jan 2012 by Madeleine Price
I've been asked by a HBW 'regular' to give a plug to this worthy website. It's struggling a little - don't let it die! MP 8 January 2012
WritingRaw is a monthly literary magazine dedicated to new and emerging writers. Our goal is simple - to give the literary community the chance to have their work online and out in the world. In this world of disappearing literary magazines, WritingRaw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill. To view someone's writing, click on the link and a pdf version of the piece will open in your browser.
We are starting two new columns this month: Self-Publishing: How We're Doing It by Martin Willoughby and Book Awards by Mary Greenwood. These columns are sure to provide some valuable information concerning how a writers group formed their own publishing company and a description of many book awards won by Mary Greenwood in her amazing career. We are always up for more… drop me an email and let's talk about starting your own column, weeb@writingraw.com
Drop Us A Line: Let us know what you think of the site, or about something you've read, or promote something through a letter to the editor. Next month we would love to start a "Emails to the Editors" section of WritingRaw. In the subject line, write "Letters" and send to weeb@writingraw.com
FLASH FICTION REVIEWS: Send us your flash fiction book reviews - no more than 250 words per review. Send to weeb@writingraw.com
Who's up for stand-up?
Posted: 3 Jan 2012 by Madeleine Price
Posted by MP 3 December 2012
If you fancy yourself as a raconteur as well as a writer, take a look at this website:
http://www.surreystorytellersguild.co.uk/
Break a leg!
Five-minute fiction competition
Posted: 3 Jan 2012 by Madeleiine Price
Posted by MP on 3 January.
Short and sweet - full details on the website.
I have launched a new short story competition at www.5minutefiction.co.uk and thought your writing group members may be interested.
Full details on www.5minutefiction.co.uk
Gail
February writing course at Hurtwood Hotel
Posted: 15 Dec 2011 by Madeleine Price
Posted by MP 15 December
I have edited down the very lengthy course description and omitted the flyer, so if anyone wants the full details, do let me know. The cost may inhibit some members, too, but hey!
Write Away! Course Details
6 p.m. Friday 3rd – 3 p.m. Sunday 5th February 2012
Overview:
Features:
- Write Away! will include taught sessions covering the art and craft of writing.
- Aspects of creative writing covered by this course will include how to create memorable characters, how to write convincing dialogue and how to build believable settings, along with a session on how to submit work for publication or to competitions. If practicable, areas of writing of particular interest to class members will be included.
- There will be free time for you to work on your own writing projects or to develop pieces of writing started in class.
- The tutor will be available for one-to-one sessions to discuss a work in progress (a short story, or a synopsis and 7 pages (double spaced) of a novel, or similar) or other writing project. This should be brought along with you to the course and handed to the tutor on Friday evening.
Equipment required:
Bring along a pen and paper and/or laptop, if preferred. (N.B. There are no computer or printing facilities provided by the hotel for this course.)
Course timetable:
The course will begin with an introduction session at 6 p.m. on Friday evening where course members will get to know each other and the tutor, an overview of the course will be given and writing will commence! This will be followed by dinner.
Class sessions will start at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday with breaks for morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner on Saturday. Before 10am and during the day there will be time for working on your own writing projects or continuing a piece of writing started in class. One-to-ones with the tutor will take place during the day on Saturday.
Tutor:
Ruth Brandt is a writer and a creative writing tutor. She writes both popular and literary short stories and has also written novels and plays. Her short stories have been published in the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 4, by Leaf Books, Candis, Yours and Litro magazines, competition anthologies and online, including The Pygmy Giant. Her short stories have also been long- and short-listed in writing competitions. She runs writing courses for Surrey ACL in Woking, Guildford, Farnham and Esher.
www.ruthbrandt.co.uk
The cost of the course is £225 residential and £150 non-residential.
Arrival 6pm Friday 3rd February, departure 3pm Sunday 5th February.
Dinner, bed and breakfast Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning.
Writers' conference
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 by Madeleine Price
Verulam Writers’ Circle is hosting its sixth annual ‘Get Writing’ one day conference on the 11th February, 2012.
We’ve once again linked up with the University of Hertfordshire and are based at their prestigious de Havilland Campus on the outskirts of St Albans, giving us enough room for 200 delegates.
We've got top authors, agents, publishers, and editors. And there are some fabulous workshops and networking opportunities.
The whole day costs just £55 (which includes lunch)
Sessions are available to pitch your writing to editors and agents. And you can book one-on-one facetime to discuss previously submitted pages.
It’s our biggest and best conference yet.
The programme can be found here http://www.vwc.org.uk/comps/gw12provisionalprogramme.pdf