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Tell Tale Net - Leicester Poetry Society
Literature Development Officer Post - trAce Access Sites Deadline Extended
Writers' Awards 1998/99 - Write Out Loud
trAce Launch Conference - National Year of Reading - EMA Bursary Awards - Words Out!
Pub Theatre Performance - Exit 21 - Poetry Nottingham International - Foreword Questionnaire
East Midlands Winners - Small Presses - Reviews - Telling Stories
Reading Environment - Master Class - Stage Success
Tell Tale Net
trAce, Nottinghamshire County
Library and Rushcliffe Borough Council have collaborated to provide this unique
opportunity. Join us to take part in the first of a series of events which will take place
in the East Midlands Region. Click here for more information.
Leicester Poetry
Society
Poetry workshops begin on 10 September 1998, continuing every week except on
the second Friday of the month when the Society has a guest poet, at Leicester Adult
Education College, Wellington Street, Leicester, from 7pm. All are welcome to attend -
bringing a poem is optional.
Leicester Poetry Society offers an Associate Membership for those who wish to receive the newsletter Stanza, which also contains poems by members as well as reviews of poetry and poetry related events, but may not be able to regularly attend Leicester Poetry Society events. For details contact Emma Hooper on 0116 256 7074.
The Arts Council of England -
Writers' Awards 1998/99
This year the Literature Department of the Arts Council will be offering 15 awards of
£7,000 each to writers who need finance for a period of concentrated work on their next
book. Click here for more details.
Write Out Loud
A training scheme to help writers enter the airwaves. Click here
for more details.
Northamptonshire Literature Development
Officer
Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service is seeking a Literature Development
Officer for the county. Click here for more details.
trAce Access Sites
The trAce Access Site Awards deadline has been extended to 11 September 1998. Click here for more information on this exciting
initiative.
Launch Conference
The First trAce Writers' Conference takes place
on Friday 16 October 1998, at The Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham. Speakers
include Dale Spender, Mark Amerika, Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, with discussion
on topics such as 'New Ways to Write' as well as a presentation by the Authors' Licensing
and Collecting Agency (ALCS). For more details, click here.
National Year of Reading
Click here for information on the National Year of
Reading, which begins in September 1998.
1998 East Midlands Arts Writer's Bursary
Awards
East Midlands Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of its three major
Writer's Bursary Awards of £2,000 each. Click here for
further information.
Words Out! - a Festival of
Literature
taking place in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland between 3 - 17 October
1998. Click here for more details.
Hard Times Pub Theatre Company
The Hard Times Pub Theatre Company has been formed by three graduates from the
University of Derby, with support from the University of Derby, The Graduate Club, and
Professor Peter Thompson, Head of Drama at the University of Exeter.
Pub Theatre is for adults who want to enjoy an easy drink along with something to stir their minds in a relaxed and friendly pub atmosphere. Hard Times will provide an opportunity for new writers, directors, actors and technicians to develop their skills, gain real pub theatre experience and add to their CVs.
A production will be staged at The Fishpond, Matlock Bath, Derby, on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 October 1998. Contact Chrissie Hall on 01332 881 795 for further information.
Leicester Poetry Society - Exit 21
Exit 21, an anthology of poems by members of Leicester Poetry Society is
now available. Chosen by Ian McMillan, the anthology costs £3 (including postage and
packing), and includes Anne Stevenson's adjudication of the 1998 Leicester Poetry Society
Open Poetry Competition.
For futher information write to Leicester Poetry Society, 18 Welland Street, Leicester, LE2 1DP, or contact Emma Hooper on 0116 256 7074 during office hours. The next issue will feature a review of Exit 21.
Poetry Nottingham
International
Please note the following change of address for Poetry Nottingham
International, the small press poetry magazine published by the Nottingham Poetry
Society. Contact Cathy Grindod, 71 Saxton Avenue, Heanor, Derbyshire DE75 7PZ
The Foreword Questionnaire
Competition Results
The 1998 Eastwood Phoenix Open Poetry and Short
Story Competition attracted more than 500 entries from all over Britain, but the First
Prize of £250 in both sections went to writers from the East Midlands.
The winner of the poetry section was Julie Lumsden of Sherwood, Nottingham, for her poem Whisper Green, while the short story prize went to Derbyshire's David Churchman for his story, No More Willbees. Julie and David were presented with their cheques at an award ceremony held at Eastwood Library.
Small Presses
If you run a small press publishing company based in the
East Midlands region, trAce will create a basic website for you free of charge. This will
give you a web presence, with your own homepage address e.g. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/
~smallpress. Contact trAce on 0115-9486360 for more details.
Reviews
Please note: we will do our best to represent the work of East Midlands writers and publishers but cannot guarantee that your book will be reviewed by Foreword.
Telling Stories
‘Telling Stories’ is the theme of the three
Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service’s programmes of literature events
during the Year of Reading.
The Autumn programme starts on National Poetry Day at Northamptonshire Central Library, when popular Jamaican poet Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze will tell poetic tales of the Caribbean. Other writers coming to libraries throughout the county include novelists Madeleine Wickham and Val McDermid, and poets Anne Gray and Edmund Cusick. Contact 01604 620620 for further details.
Reading Environment
Artist Carole Miles and author Kathy Page have
collaborated to produce a colourful, sumptuous and tactile ‘Reading
Environment’, which will be touring libraries in Northamptonshire from October. The
invitation will be to step inside, make yourself comfortable and settle down to read a
story produced in a beautiful, hand made book. Contact 01604 620620 for further details.
Nottingham Poetry
Society Master Class
Huw Watkins gave a detailed critique of the poems of
five local poets at the Nottingham Poetry Society Master Class held at Dillons Book Shop
Wheeler Gate on 14 July. Following the readings and Hugh’s discussion members of the
audience put forward their own questions and comments.
Stage Success for East Midlands Writer
Following a Stageworks Writing for the Stage workshop
where participants were invited to submit a stage piece, with the best four being selected
for performance, Leicester writer Paul Lee’s verse-play, A Horse Foaled by an
Acorn, will be performed at the Market Harborough Theatre on Friday 9 and Saturday 10
October 1998. Contact 01858 463673 for ticket information.
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