Last night was another 'down on numbers' meeting but not to worry, we turned it into a great evening of stories; more than the numbers attending the meeting was a social success.
Members attending were Dave, Tony, Les, Beryl, Carolyn, Ray, Suzie and yours truly.
Apologies were from Martin, Dick and Caz.
The subject for todays renditions was 'Chickens'
Ray read first with London Bridge 15 miles that concerned his youth in the fifties when he and his family arrived in Orpington to find fields and farmyards plus an ancient roadside sign declaring it to be 15 miles to London Bridge. He told of his house and subsequent investigation years later when Orpington had come of age. The sign still was there. 15 miles to London Bridge.
Next was Beryl with Ginger Rogers Lays an Egg, a tale about how a young girl walks up the garden path with food for the chickens who seem not to be laying then finding the first under a bird her father had named Ginger Rogers.
Carolyn attended and we were glad she did but after her recent travels had not been able to raise any chickens for homework but treated us to a few anecdotes.
Suzie gave us a story of a young reporter trying to elicit the scoop of the year The chickens that saved my life and failing miserably as the old lady recounting this tale constantly interrupted the tale and eventually left, promising to tell all at a later date.
Les has not written a story but gave a masterful example of total recall, not easy at our age, of a time he and Joan house sat for a family in Essex and on arrival found it was a beautiful old house but populated by three dogs many farmyard animals and a crowd of chickens with a particularly nasty minded bantam that attacked at every opportunity. He was sure this bird gave instructions to the hens to only lay their eggs in stinging nettles.
My contribution was a story (fictitious) was It's Dinner Time about a young DC who had been terrorised by chickens on his fathers farm and on an investigation found that chickens must have an inner sense and know the people that dislike them.
Dave gave us For the Love of Jodie, a story of a young lad who courted a girl from the other side of the railway, and the story, based on truth told of the dangers of trying to cross a busy railway line by means of anything but the recommended bridges or crossings.
Tony gave us Awakening, a part of his first chapter of an intriguing sequel he is writing.
Our next meeting is in One Weeks Time. There is no homework but you should all bring in your four little words on separate slips of paper...
Keep Scribbling.
Barry
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Competition....
So, what, if anything, links the black queen with the ten pound note and the flowers? We have a number of ideas but want more. Our judges, Michael Dobbs and Adele Geras are waiting to see what different approaches have been made to the 3 into 1 stories. Closing date is 31st July, so there is still time to put together a novel story in less than 3,000 words. Check our website for the details of how to enter at http://www.3into1storycompetition.co.uk/
Please remember the £1,000 first prize, but most important we are supporting The Arthrogryposis Group charity, and look forward to making a sustantial donation to them.
Please remember the £1,000 first prize, but most important we are supporting The Arthrogryposis Group charity, and look forward to making a sustantial donation to them.
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Chicken...
Our 'Chickens' homework brought a variety of stories from those present and even an orated story by Les who had been unable to write his tale up.
Good meeting but now a reminder that our next one is in a week's time, Tuesday 3rd July - a four word creative writing exercise. Simply bring along four words, each on a separate slip of paper, place them in a hat, then draw four other words out and include them in your writing exercise.
Always good fun...!
The Scribe
Good meeting but now a reminder that our next one is in a week's time, Tuesday 3rd July - a four word creative writing exercise. Simply bring along four words, each on a separate slip of paper, place them in a hat, then draw four other words out and include them in your writing exercise.
Always good fun...!
The Scribe
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Our Next Meeting
From Barry
'Here's hoping all your chickens have been brought home to roost.
See you Tuesday 26th June.'
Yes our next meeting falls on the last Tuesday of the month this time. After this our meetings will revert to their regular first and third Tuesdays of each month. It may have been confusing but we can all blame Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee for the upset in our rhythmetic flow... bless her.
So the final meeting of June we run up against the 'chickens' assignment when we hope you will have managed a poultry 1,000 words...
Keep clucking away...
See you in the Room at the Top at 7.30pm Tuesday.
The Scribe.
'Here's hoping all your chickens have been brought home to roost.
See you Tuesday 26th June.'
Yes our next meeting falls on the last Tuesday of the month this time. After this our meetings will revert to their regular first and third Tuesdays of each month. It may have been confusing but we can all blame Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee for the upset in our rhythmetic flow... bless her.
So the final meeting of June we run up against the 'chickens' assignment when we hope you will have managed a poultry 1,000 words...
Keep clucking away...
See you in the Room at the Top at 7.30pm Tuesday.
The Scribe.
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Flash Fiction Award
The 2012 Unbound Press Flash Fiction Award
Closing Date: June 30, 2012
1st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
2nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
3rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Guest Judge: Zoë Strachan is the author of Negative Space (won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award) and Spin Cycle (both published by Picador). Her most recent novel, Ever Fallen in Love, is published by Sandstone Press and has been shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize and longlisted for London Book Award. Zoë also writes short stories, essays, journalism and drama. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3. She has received two writer’s bursaries from the Scottish Arts Council, a Hawthornden Fellowship and was UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence at the National Museum of Scotland. In 2008 she was awarded a Hermann Kesten Stipendium and spent time in Nuremberg, and in 2009 she received a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship which took her to France to write. She lives in Glasgow where she teaches part time on the prestigious Creative Writing programme at the University of Glasgow. Her play Old Girls opened the 2009/10 season of A Play, a Pie and a Pint at Oran Mor in Glasgow, and her short opera Sublimation (with composer Nick Fells) toured in May 2010 with Scottish Opera and will be performed in South Africa by Cape Town Opera in November 2010. For more information about Zoë: http://www.zoestrachan.com/.
Full details and guidelines can be found here
Closing Date: June 30, 2012
1st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
2nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
3rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Shortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Report on meeting 12th June 2012
Those present: Dave, Tony, Martin, Carolyn, Suzie, Liliane, Rani, Becky, Beryl, Ray, Dick, Barry, Lyndsay and Sandy.
Apologies from Les.
Well folks, another good meeting. Good attendance this week. The homework had been set from a different postcard of places, throughout the world.
We started with Liliane who went to Paris and the story was called Last day in Paris. As the title implies this was a tale of a family having enjoyed a holiday seeing the sights of Paris want to get as much in the last day as possible.
Next was Rani who selected Florence. Entitled Meet me in Florence this was a tale of a young woman waiting for Ed who was late from his dig in Tuscany. She walks through the Palazzo and is transported to Roman times and a feast involving a handsome young man and his giraffe.
Lyndsay gave us a short tale of a couple and their wedding day and the journey from the church in the new Ford Fairlane.
Becky, our new recruit gave us a short impression of a young girl leaving the dock and wanting to expand her horizons.
Beryl was next with her story of the Colosseum entitled A letter to my sons. This concerned what appeared to be a human and humane Roman, Emporer Vespasian and his deathbed letter to his two sons.
Ray went to Blackpool and One Blackpool Night. This told of a dinner party held by publishers and how different clients and authors got together and especially about Sean Macallister and Leah and how they really saw a future together.
Dick went to The Great Barrier Reef. His story was entitled The Sea Fret Problem. This told us how three letters arrive with one from Australia telling of an inheritance. Thast of a schooner called Sea Fret. The man of the house decides he has to investigate and travels to Australia to visit the solicitors and find the schooner is damaged and on a reef. He accepts an offer for the vessel and returns to England.
My offering was called Niagara and involved a stuntman who decided to travel to the Falls to float over in a barrel. This ends up as his last stunt and he unhappily left a wife and eleven children.
Dave read next an account of a terrible air disaster that occurred on the Island of Tenerife. Entitled the 27th March 1977 it told of a Dutch and an American plane that collided on the only runway of Tenerife's airport.
Tony went to Barcelona. His story was entitled Barthalona and was about Barth, one of the local rogues who sets out one morning to steal enough food or money for breakfast. He is apprehended and then offered a way out of his predicament by becoming an informer on his vagabond friends.
Martin had Melbourne as a subject and no amount of my recounting would do justice to what was a brilliant piece of prose.
Carolyn had a picture of the Gozo Ferry to take inspiration from and concocted a tale called Hatties day out. This was of Hatty and her trip to Malta after losing her husband Henry. On the ferry she met what she considered an undesirable and the a suave gentleman called Tom Jones. On the return trip the undesirable introduced himself as a Maltese policeman who described Tom Jones as the undesirable who had disappeared from Gozo and escaped the clutches of the law.
Suzie was the last to read and read a very short but poignant poem called Just a memory. This was a poem of someones memory of waffles on a trip to Bruge, in Belgium.
Our next meeting is on 26th June when the subject is 'Chickens'.
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Short story competition
A reminder everyone of our short story competition.
Closing date is fast approaching but only up to 1200 words needed.
Closing Date = 9th July 2012.
Maximum word count = 1200 words
Prizes: 1st = £150, 2nd = £70, 3rd = £40.
Entry Fee= £3 for 1 story, £5 for two stories, £8 for 3 stories, £10 for 4 stories)
Follow the link for more details.
https://sites.google.com/site/wrekinwriters/Home/competitions-1/2012-doris-gooderson-short-story-competition
Closing date is fast approaching but only up to 1200 words needed.
Closing Date = 9th July 2012.
Maximum word count = 1200 words
Prizes: 1st = £150, 2nd = £70, 3rd = £40.
Entry Fee= £3 for 1 story, £5 for two stories, £8 for 3 stories, £10 for 4 stories)
Follow the link for more details.
https://sites.google.com/site/wrekinwriters/Home/competitions-1/2012-doris-gooderson-short-story-competition
Friday, 15 June 2012
Lightship Literary Prizes 2011/2012
Fw: Lightship Literary Prizes 2011/2012 - FREE Lightship Anthology E-Book
Closing date for the competitions is the 30th June 2012.
Lightship First Chapter Competition
Judges: M.J. Hyland Alessandro Gallenzi David Miller
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
The winner will receive expert mentoring from M.J. Hyland, David Miller of Rogers, Coleridge & White, and Alessandro Gallenzi of Alma Books, to write their novel.
Lightship Short Story Competition
Judge: Andrew Crumey
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in October 2013...
Lightship Flash Fiction Competition
Judge: Vanessa Gebbie
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £500 / US$800*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing Ltd and Alma Books...
Lightship Poetry Competition
Judge: Sean O'Brien
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in 2012...
FREE Lightship Anthology 1 Ebook
All winners of the 2011 Short Story, Poetry and Flash Fiction competitions and the winner of First Chapter have been published in Lightship Anthology 1 (published by Alma Books). The paperback anthology costs £6.99 normally, but we are giving you a FREE copy of the ebook for Kindle and the iPad, no catches. We just want you to see the quality of the anthology, and the work in it, and to remind you that the deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) 30th June 2012.
NEW Lightship Short Memoir Contest
Do you want to tell your own story, or an episode of it? Do you long to write from your own life experiences and get published? A short memoir is not fact-based autobiography. It is pure storytelling and as such, allows writers licence to make sense of a part of life, to fashion it into a story that readers can learn from and be entertained by. The inaugural Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by award-winning novelist and memoirist Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will receive £1,000 and be published in the Lightship Anthology.
Judge
Rachel Cusk is an award-winning memoirist, novelist, and journalist. She was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles. She read English at New College, Oxford. Her first novel, Saving Agnes (1993), won the Whitbread First Novel Award. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001), is a critically acclaimed personal exploration of motherhood. In The Lucky Ones (2003), she uses a series of five narratives, loosely linked by the experience of parenthood, to write of life's transformations; of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand.
In 2003 Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her novel, Arlington Park (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest books are the memoir of a 3-month family stay in Italy, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009); The Bradshaw Variations (2009), a novel; and the controversial memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012).
Prize
£1000 & Publication in the Lightship Anthology
Short Memoir Launch Date
1st July 2012
Short Memoir Deadline
30th January 2013
Lightship Deadline Reminder
The deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) Saturday 30th June 2012.
New way to enter
We have deployed a new way for you to enter the competitions!
You can still enter the competitions by copying and pasting your entry into the system or alternatively you can now simply upload your Word document or other formatted document straight into the entry system. Simply click the browse button - locate your file stored on your computer and click ok.
Request for complete profiles
We have added the extra check when you submit your entry to us to make sure that we do have all of your contact details. Should your entry be a successful one we will need to get in touch with you to let you know. So please fill in the required fields and click update when submitting your entry. Alternatively you can fill in all of the required information in the my account section.
Lightship Anthology 1
Don't forget we have the Lightship Anthology 1 for sale. If you'd like to buy a copy send us an e-mail and we can arrange for one or as many as you would like to be sent out to you!
The paperback anthology will cost £6.99. If you buy 3 copies, Lightship will send you one free. If you buy 6 copies, we'll give you 2 free. If you buy 9 copies we'll give you 3 free. If you would like to reserve copies of the anthology (published by Alma Books) please email: admin@lightshippublishing.co.uk If you want to order the ebook for your Kindle please go to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightship-Anthology-1-ebook/dp/B006OML5MA
You have to be in it to win it! Get your entries submitted to be in with the chance to win some of our exclusive prizes!
The deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) Saturday 30th June 2012.
Our mailing address is:
Lightship Publishing Ltd The Meredith Building, 21-33 Reform Street, Kingston Upon Hull, England HU2 8EF
Closing date for the competitions is the 30th June 2012.
Lightship First Chapter Competition
Judges: M.J. Hyland Alessandro Gallenzi David Miller
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
The winner will receive expert mentoring from M.J. Hyland, David Miller of Rogers, Coleridge & White, and Alessandro Gallenzi of Alma Books, to write their novel.
Lightship Short Story Competition
Judge: Andrew Crumey
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in October 2013...
Lightship Flash Fiction Competition
Judge: Vanessa Gebbie
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £500 / US$800*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing Ltd and Alma Books...
Lightship Poetry Competition
Judge: Sean O'Brien
Log in to enter
Closes on 30 Jun 2012
1st Prize: £1000 / US$1600*
The winner and nine runners-up will be published in the Lightship paperback anthology to be published by Lightship Publishing and Alma Books in 2012...
FREE Lightship Anthology 1 Ebook
All winners of the 2011 Short Story, Poetry and Flash Fiction competitions and the winner of First Chapter have been published in Lightship Anthology 1 (published by Alma Books). The paperback anthology costs £6.99 normally, but we are giving you a FREE copy of the ebook for Kindle and the iPad, no catches. We just want you to see the quality of the anthology, and the work in it, and to remind you that the deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) 30th June 2012.
NEW Lightship Short Memoir Contest
Do you want to tell your own story, or an episode of it? Do you long to write from your own life experiences and get published? A short memoir is not fact-based autobiography. It is pure storytelling and as such, allows writers licence to make sense of a part of life, to fashion it into a story that readers can learn from and be entertained by. The inaugural Lightship Short Memoir Competition will be judged by award-winning novelist and memoirist Rachel Cusk. The winning entry will receive £1,000 and be published in the Lightship Anthology.
Judge
Rachel Cusk is an award-winning memoirist, novelist, and journalist. She was born in Canada in 1967 and spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles. She read English at New College, Oxford. Her first novel, Saving Agnes (1993), won the Whitbread First Novel Award. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2001), is a critically acclaimed personal exploration of motherhood. In The Lucky Ones (2003), she uses a series of five narratives, loosely linked by the experience of parenthood, to write of life's transformations; of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand.
In 2003 Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Her novel, Arlington Park (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her latest books are the memoir of a 3-month family stay in Italy, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009); The Bradshaw Variations (2009), a novel; and the controversial memoir Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012).
Prize
£1000 & Publication in the Lightship Anthology
Short Memoir Launch Date
1st July 2012
Short Memoir Deadline
30th January 2013
Lightship Deadline Reminder
The deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) Saturday 30th June 2012.
New way to enter
We have deployed a new way for you to enter the competitions!
You can still enter the competitions by copying and pasting your entry into the system or alternatively you can now simply upload your Word document or other formatted document straight into the entry system. Simply click the browse button - locate your file stored on your computer and click ok.
Request for complete profiles
We have added the extra check when you submit your entry to us to make sure that we do have all of your contact details. Should your entry be a successful one we will need to get in touch with you to let you know. So please fill in the required fields and click update when submitting your entry. Alternatively you can fill in all of the required information in the my account section.
Lightship Anthology 1
Don't forget we have the Lightship Anthology 1 for sale. If you'd like to buy a copy send us an e-mail and we can arrange for one or as many as you would like to be sent out to you!
The paperback anthology will cost £6.99. If you buy 3 copies, Lightship will send you one free. If you buy 6 copies, we'll give you 2 free. If you buy 9 copies we'll give you 3 free. If you would like to reserve copies of the anthology (published by Alma Books) please email: admin@lightshippublishing.co.uk If you want to order the ebook for your Kindle please go to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightship-Anthology-1-ebook/dp/B006OML5MA
You have to be in it to win it! Get your entries submitted to be in with the chance to win some of our exclusive prizes!
The deadline for all our 2012 competitions is Midnight (GMT) Saturday 30th June 2012.
Our mailing address is:
Lightship Publishing Ltd The Meredith Building, 21-33 Reform Street, Kingston Upon Hull, England HU2 8EF
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
A good night at the Library.
The meeting saw a marked increase in attendance and the geographical postcard theme worked wonders. Some really inspirational work of fact and fiction.
It really is a great evening of entertainment when the Scribblers meet in The Room at the Top... if you haven't attended for some time, then it is time you made a note of our next gathering... that's Tuesday 26th June... with the homework theme of 'Chickens'.
Keep Scribbling!
The Scribe.
It really is a great evening of entertainment when the Scribblers meet in The Room at the Top... if you haven't attended for some time, then it is time you made a note of our next gathering... that's Tuesday 26th June... with the homework theme of 'Chickens'.
Keep Scribbling!
The Scribe.
Monday, 11 June 2012
Our Next Meeting...
... is tomorrow - Tuesday 12th June at the Room at The Top, Felixstowe Library. Start time 7.30pm. The theme of this week's meeting is geographical, based on postcard pictures... 1,000 words maximum. It should be another interesting evening!
Keep Scribbling!
Hope to see you there.
Keep Scribbling!
Hope to see you there.
A message from the publisher of The New Writer magazine
Good morning. We published the first copy of TNW in 1996 and we are soon to publish our 110th issue. In 2001, we emailed the first of our monthly enews bulletins to subscribers, covering all the info we received between publishing dates, and I thought you might be interested to see the latest of these. This enewsletter is included in our 18-month subscription package http://www.thenewwriter.com/subscribe.htm along with 6 quarterly issues of the magazine. Despite huge postal increases, our subscription price in the UK has not changed in six years and now - at £27 covering 18 months - we reckon it's pretty good value. If you are in a writers group, perhaps you would forward this to your members and please let me know if you would like us to post bulk copies of our leaflet to you. The New Writer also gives out regular news to writers on Facebook and Twitter (info at the foot of this email).
We are always pleased to receive news of local and national writing events and contests, so do let us know if you want us to pass on any info to our subscribers.
Thank you for reading this and very best wishes, Merric Davidson
TNW NEWS No.133
9 June 2012
WHAT’S UP WHAT’S ON
Check these links for further information
http://www.selfpublishingconference.org.uk/
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/50-kisses/
http://www.hns-conference.org.uk/
http://www.write-connections.com/
http://www.piatkusbooks.net/win-a-publishing-contract-with-piatkus-entice/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2012/04/120417_bbc_world_service_international_playwriting_competiton_2012_whats_it_about.shtml
http://www.thebookspecialist.com/index.html
http://www.skyros.com/writers_lab.htm
http://www.dinefwrliteraturefestival.co.uk/
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/news/literary_prize.html
http://chez-castillon.com/
http://renegadewritersgroup.blogspot.co.uk/
COMPETITIONS & CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://www.panmacmillan.com/Featured-Pages/Write-Now.aspx
http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/revival-literary-journal.html
http://mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pamcomp_active.php
http://mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/News/Latest-News/
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/index.html
http://www.rslit.org/content/pritchett
http://www.bloodyscotland.com/competition/
http://www.lightshippublishing.co.uk/
http://www.writers-village.org/
http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/news/keats-shelley-prize-2012
http://www.wbcompetition.com/index.html
http://www.writersnewandold.com/
http://www.poetry-festival.com/
http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/readers/writing-competition/index.html
http://www.wrekinwriters.co.uk/
http://www.tenbyartsfest.co.uk/writing-competition.asp
http://www.wellsfestival.com/
http://www.wasafiri.org/Prizes.asp
http://greenhouseliterary.com/index.php/blog/article/announcing_the_greenhouse_funny_prize_open_to_uk_irish_writers/
http://www.hissac.co.uk/2005_competition.html
http://www.writersabroad.com/
http://3into1storycompetition.co.uk/
http://www.dreamquestone.com/
http://www.saveaswriters.co.uk/
http://www.choc-lit.com/html/choc_lit_short_story_competiti.html
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
http://www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk/poetry/
http://www.secondlightlive.co.uk/index.shtml
http://www.trinitycollege.co.uk/site/?id=1996&utm_source=jump&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=playwriting
http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/ncomp_active.php
http://www.theshortstory.net/submission-guidelines/
http://historicalnovelsociety.org/hns-award/rules-of-entry/
http://www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk/www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk/Competitions.html
http://write-connections.com/events/competitions.html?view=category
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/npc/
Enter TNW’s very own annual competition -
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Closing date 30 November.
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There is much more interesting information at
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We are always pleased to receive news of local and national writing events and contests, so do let us know if you want us to pass on any info to our subscribers.
Thank you for reading this and very best wishes, Merric Davidson
TNW NEWS No.133
9 June 2012
WHAT’S UP WHAT’S ON
Check these links for further information
http://www.selfpublishingconference.org.uk/
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/50-kisses/
http://www.hns-conference.org.uk/
http://www.write-connections.com/
http://www.piatkusbooks.net/win-a-publishing-contract-with-piatkus-entice/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2012/04/120417_bbc_world_service_international_playwriting_competiton_2012_whats_it_about.shtml
http://www.thebookspecialist.com/index.html
http://www.skyros.com/writers_lab.htm
http://www.dinefwrliteraturefestival.co.uk/
http://www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org/site/sections/news/literary_prize.html
http://chez-castillon.com/
http://renegadewritersgroup.blogspot.co.uk/
COMPETITIONS & CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://www.panmacmillan.com/Featured-Pages/Write-Now.aspx
http://www.limerickwriterscentre.com/revival-literary-journal.html
http://mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pamcomp_active.php
http://mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_active.php
http://www.sentinelpoetry.org.uk/
http://www.wealddown.co.uk/News/Latest-News/
http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com/index.html
http://www.rslit.org/content/pritchett
http://www.bloodyscotland.com/competition/
http://www.lightshippublishing.co.uk/
http://www.writers-village.org/
http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/news/keats-shelley-prize-2012
http://www.wbcompetition.com/index.html
http://www.writersnewandold.com/
http://www.poetry-festival.com/
http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/readers/writing-competition/index.html
http://www.wrekinwriters.co.uk/
http://www.tenbyartsfest.co.uk/writing-competition.asp
http://www.wellsfestival.com/
http://www.wasafiri.org/Prizes.asp
http://greenhouseliterary.com/index.php/blog/article/announcing_the_greenhouse_funny_prize_open_to_uk_irish_writers/
http://www.hissac.co.uk/2005_competition.html
http://www.writersabroad.com/
http://3into1storycompetition.co.uk/
http://www.dreamquestone.com/
http://www.saveaswriters.co.uk/
http://www.choc-lit.com/html/choc_lit_short_story_competiti.html
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
http://www.manchesterwritingcompetition.co.uk/poetry/
http://www.secondlightlive.co.uk/index.shtml
http://www.trinitycollege.co.uk/site/?id=1996&utm_source=jump&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=playwriting
http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/ncomp_active.php
http://www.theshortstory.net/submission-guidelines/
http://historicalnovelsociety.org/hns-award/rules-of-entry/
http://www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk/www.theyellowroom-magazine.co.uk/Competitions.html
http://write-connections.com/events/competitions.html?view=category
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/competitions/npc/
Enter TNW’s very own annual competition -
16th annual Prose & Poetry Prizes
Short Story / MicroFiction / Non-Fiction / Single Poem / Poetry Collection.
Closing date 30 November.
You can enter the 2012 Prizes at:
http://www.thenewwriter.com/entryform.htm
There is much more interesting information at
http://www.thenewwriter.com/
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Rosy Thornton talk
This is just a little reminder about our forthcoming talk by author, Rosy Thornton on Saturday 30th June, National Reading Group Day. Rosy will be with us between 2 and 4pm. We still have some tickets left so if any of your members would like to come then please ask them to pop into the library for a ticket or reserve one over the phone. The library phone number is 625766.
Debra Rowe
Debra Rowe
V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
The Royal Society of Literature would like to let you know about our forthcoming V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, for best unpublished short story of the year.
The winning entrant will receive a £1000 prize, appear at an RSL event with established short story writers in autumn 2012, and have their story published in Prospect magazine and the RSL Review. Any story entered must be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length and submitted before the deadline of the 29th June. The prize will be judged by Jane Gardam, Aemer Hussein and Penelope Lively.
Anyone can enter the prize, and it is a fantastic opportunity for unpublished work to be recognised, so please feel free to spread the word amongst any other story writers. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Amelia Abraham
http://www.rslit.org/
The winning entrant will receive a £1000 prize, appear at an RSL event with established short story writers in autumn 2012, and have their story published in Prospect magazine and the RSL Review. Any story entered must be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length and submitted before the deadline of the 29th June. The prize will be judged by Jane Gardam, Aemer Hussein and Penelope Lively.
Anyone can enter the prize, and it is a fantastic opportunity for unpublished work to be recognised, so please feel free to spread the word amongst any other story writers. We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Amelia Abraham
http://www.rslit.org/
My perfect pitch
Your writers group will undoubtedly be aware of the costs involved when purchasing Writer’s Yearbooks for submitting work to publishers.
I own a website which contains an unrivalled database of book publishers who are currently accepting submissions. It isn’t just a general publishers list. Each link leads directly to the submissions page. I have over 1000 publishers worldwide covering all genres.
The site is completely free. It doesn’t contain any self-publishing links or vanity companies. It’s a genuinely open resource. Perhaps you would consider offering this information to your members?
This could either be in the form of a link on your site (which I would reciprocate if you wish), or by simply forwarding my URL in your newsletter or at a meeting. As a published author myself I know I would have appreciated a resource like this when I was looking for my first book deal.
Please have a look at my site, you can then either get back to me here or there. Thank’s for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
(In case the links don't work my url is http://www.myperfectpitch.com/ )
Brian Grove
I own a website which contains an unrivalled database of book publishers who are currently accepting submissions. It isn’t just a general publishers list. Each link leads directly to the submissions page. I have over 1000 publishers worldwide covering all genres.
The site is completely free. It doesn’t contain any self-publishing links or vanity companies. It’s a genuinely open resource. Perhaps you would consider offering this information to your members?
This could either be in the form of a link on your site (which I would reciprocate if you wish), or by simply forwarding my URL in your newsletter or at a meeting. As a published author myself I know I would have appreciated a resource like this when I was looking for my first book deal.
Please have a look at my site, you can then either get back to me here or there. Thank’s for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
(In case the links don't work my url is http://www.myperfectpitch.com/ )
Brian Grove
Saturday, 2 June 2012
NEW June issue of WritingRaw.com online
Let the world know about WritingRaw.com and all the good things we do for up-and-coming writers.
WritingRaw is a monthly literary magazine dedicated to new and emerging writers. Our goal is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity 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 still looking for:
· 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email). These essays can be read on the Tips/News page.
· Books to Promote between stories, poems and articles (we are closing the Bookstore and placing these book promotions on every page everyone can see them) Send us a jpeg of the cover, a brief synopsis, and ordering information with the actual link (put Promotion in the subject line of the email)
· And we are always needing Fiction, Poetry, Articles and Essays – all genres, all lengths
June's Contest - Write a 500 word or less piece based on the following quote: “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” (Robert Frost) Flash fiction, poetry, any form you like. The winner will be placed on the site in May and will win a $20 gift certificate from Amazon.com. Send submissions to: weeb@writingraw.com with CONTEST as the header.
Send any of these to Weeb at weeb@writingraw.com
SPREAD THE WORD to all your writer, and reader, friends: Don't let us die! Let the world know about WritingRaw and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.
In the June issue:
FICTION:
· August Afternoon at Spreckels Lake by Joanne Jagoda: Harold, a widower, is drawn to a lonely young woman and her children whom he sees every day at Spreckles Lake in Golden Gate Park where he launches his model boat. He unexpectedly helps her after an accident and finally begins to understand her.
· The Fireflies by Elaine Rosenberg Miller: A family scene. A young girl watching her aunt dress her hair. A intimate thing. And then she sees the brand, the carbon brand making her relative's status as "thing", born into a race marked by its tormentors as less than human, as subject to extermination. Yet, the girl realizes, her aunt, by her life and her courage, has turned the disfigurement into badge of survival and triumph.
· A Fly in the Brandy by Roger Sakowski: One way to deal with writer's block is to summon a muse, befriend a fly, and celebrate an eminent divorce. Either that or have the police over and sit through a tiresome interrogation.
· Footprints by Kristin Kobayashi: Miranda and her friend Blair are two young girls who have always had a competitive relationship. However, Miranda soon realizes that she has more in common with Blair than she thinks after she encounters the super-natural, It.
· JeniLee by Madison Ann Lee: Love is...not what she had in mind when she met JeniLee. Best friend turned fierce lover, Jeni became more than she ever bargained for. A husband, kids, and a 12 year marriage behind her belt, she was forced to ask the questions that she never thought would come. 'Am I gay? Do I go against everything I've ever been taught and follow my heart?" This is a short story about falling in love and being happy for the first time, when all the odds are against it.
· Milk and Honey by T.C. Stevenson: When an urban family of three finds themselves in a desperate financial situation, they are forced to consider slaughtering one of their last means of income: their only surviving cow and family pet, Demeter. In spite of his son's increasingly severe malnourished state, The Father refuses to accept this as an option and seeks solace in his beekeeping. When the time comes for a decision to be made, Mother and Son are forced to choose between their survival and their family.
· On Silence by Philip V. Coombs: A couple share a life trying to find a voice. Their silence is as important as their noise. It isn't always the grand design that takes you down, sometimes it is the details.
· Supersonic Galactic Troopers: A Novel by Terri Dailey: A group of college freshmen get more than a good education as they embark on their first year of college in New York City. They are in for a major surprise when they are recruited by a talking cat from outer space to become the superheroes destined to save the world from the greatest evil threat in the Universe. Action and hilarity ensue as the team attempts to take down the alien threat while still getting all their term papers handed in on time in this science-fiction, comic book superhero, action-adventure comedy/parody!
· The Flames of Freedom by Iftekhar Sayeed: This is a story of how western foreign policy affects the lives of distant people: it begins by the Poshur River at Mongla and ends at Teknaf in Bangladesh. The themes are an insatiable longing for peace and the inevitability of violence.
· The Man in the White Pontiac by Liam Maloney: 10-year-old Brendan, the eldest son of a "down and out" Irish-American writer, struggles to make sense of the maelstrom of religious, moral and familial conflicts that surround him.
· The Visit by Brian Kayser: Growing up, our narrator played catch with his father until they could barely make out the ball. After not seeing his father for two years after a disagreement, our narrator finds himself immersed in memories and tension after inviting his father to dinner. Our narrator attempts to repair his relationship with his father without going back to old habits and painful memories.
· Tommy Braden by Jered W Johnston: New Kensington, Pennsylvania is a gritty little river town comprised mostly of blue-collar wage slaves and criminals. Whenever their shifts end, the laborers flock to the many mob owned bars which pepper "New Ken's" streets. Tommy Braden takes a look inside one of these bars for a single night and follows the reckless, and perhaps fatal, actions of a young mob enforcer.
POETRY:
· Brown Gold by Magdalena Ball
· Cottage in Three Oaks by Dave Frazier
· Crows by Joseph Welsh
· Death by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
· For... by Matthew Ryan Morris
· I'm Am by Tonn Pastore
· Mea Culpa by Chris Birrane
· Pressure by Sarah Koscielniak
· The Blessing: An ode to love's succession by Christopher Nagle
· The Persistence of Stones by Eileen Bell
· The Silent Ones by Jason Anderson
· Titanic - A Date with Destiny by Paul H Ward
· World at War by Dean Meredith
RIB HAS A NEW COLUMN: The Time Capsule
Forget magazine pronouncements of the sexiest or most interesting. Award shows come but once a year. Rating systems and polls do not include me. And who decides must lists?? Here is the place to get the feel... think zeitgeist... culture. Rib knows what we should be excited about and what should drop off the radar. Just call it instinct or let me know I am wrong and perhaps we could have it out. What has us thinking this month? Here is the flavor of the moment, a page in time for...
ASSORTED:
· But That's Okay by Shea Hennum: Everyone wonders about what happens after death, but sometimes we forget that it's what happens before that is more important. We forget that if you do good, you'll do well.
· I'm Struggling by Mattie Lennon: Have you ever tried to write about nothing. I have. The following is the result and you, dear reader can tell me if I succeeded.
· Poke Delete by Janice Kenyon: The aging process is inexorable, unstoppable, incorrigible. It shows no mercy, takes all prisoners. We each experience it, some sooner rather than later. Poke Delete takes you inside.
· What I Know of War by Steve Myers: Time runs backwards from the killings at Kent State through the military hospitals of the Vietnam War to World War II. We are left with the effects of war and the effects found in a dead soldier's pockets.
7 QUESTION INTERVIEWS:
· Gail Carriger: Gail Carriger a New York Times bestselling author. Current release: Timeless
· Carole DeSanti: Carole DeSanti is Vice President, Editor at Large at Viking Penguin. Current release: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.
· Helen Knode: Helen Knode is the author of two acclaimed mystery novels. Current release: Wildcat Play
· Robert McCammon: Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels. Current release: The Providence Rider
· Maureen McQuerry: Maureen Doyle McQuerry writes books for teens and adults. Current release: The Peculiars
· Chris Pavone: Chris Pavone a New York Times bestselling author. Current release: The Expats
· Taylor M. Polites: Taylor M. Polites is a debut novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Current release: The Rebel Wife
RIB RAW
BOOK REVIEWS
Give us a look, am sure you will like what you read. If you have an interest in being part of WritingRaw.com, please visit the site and do a little exploring. Am sure we have a niche for just about everyone and anything. Thank you.
Let the world know about http://www.writingraw.com/ and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.
Weeb
WritingRaw.com
WritingRaw is a monthly literary magazine dedicated to new and emerging writers. Our goal is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity 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 still looking for:
· 500 words or less essays about your struggle to write or published in the traditional sense (put Struggle in the subject line of the email). These essays can be read on the Tips/News page.
· Books to Promote between stories, poems and articles (we are closing the Bookstore and placing these book promotions on every page everyone can see them) Send us a jpeg of the cover, a brief synopsis, and ordering information with the actual link (put Promotion in the subject line of the email)
· And we are always needing Fiction, Poetry, Articles and Essays – all genres, all lengths
June's Contest - Write a 500 word or less piece based on the following quote: “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” (Robert Frost) Flash fiction, poetry, any form you like. The winner will be placed on the site in May and will win a $20 gift certificate from Amazon.com. Send submissions to: weeb@writingraw.com with CONTEST as the header.
Send any of these to Weeb at weeb@writingraw.com
SPREAD THE WORD to all your writer, and reader, friends: Don't let us die! Let the world know about WritingRaw and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.
In the June issue:
FICTION:
· August Afternoon at Spreckels Lake by Joanne Jagoda: Harold, a widower, is drawn to a lonely young woman and her children whom he sees every day at Spreckles Lake in Golden Gate Park where he launches his model boat. He unexpectedly helps her after an accident and finally begins to understand her.
· The Fireflies by Elaine Rosenberg Miller: A family scene. A young girl watching her aunt dress her hair. A intimate thing. And then she sees the brand, the carbon brand making her relative's status as "thing", born into a race marked by its tormentors as less than human, as subject to extermination. Yet, the girl realizes, her aunt, by her life and her courage, has turned the disfigurement into badge of survival and triumph.
· A Fly in the Brandy by Roger Sakowski: One way to deal with writer's block is to summon a muse, befriend a fly, and celebrate an eminent divorce. Either that or have the police over and sit through a tiresome interrogation.
· Footprints by Kristin Kobayashi: Miranda and her friend Blair are two young girls who have always had a competitive relationship. However, Miranda soon realizes that she has more in common with Blair than she thinks after she encounters the super-natural, It.
· JeniLee by Madison Ann Lee: Love is...not what she had in mind when she met JeniLee. Best friend turned fierce lover, Jeni became more than she ever bargained for. A husband, kids, and a 12 year marriage behind her belt, she was forced to ask the questions that she never thought would come. 'Am I gay? Do I go against everything I've ever been taught and follow my heart?" This is a short story about falling in love and being happy for the first time, when all the odds are against it.
· Milk and Honey by T.C. Stevenson: When an urban family of three finds themselves in a desperate financial situation, they are forced to consider slaughtering one of their last means of income: their only surviving cow and family pet, Demeter. In spite of his son's increasingly severe malnourished state, The Father refuses to accept this as an option and seeks solace in his beekeeping. When the time comes for a decision to be made, Mother and Son are forced to choose between their survival and their family.
· On Silence by Philip V. Coombs: A couple share a life trying to find a voice. Their silence is as important as their noise. It isn't always the grand design that takes you down, sometimes it is the details.
· Supersonic Galactic Troopers: A Novel by Terri Dailey: A group of college freshmen get more than a good education as they embark on their first year of college in New York City. They are in for a major surprise when they are recruited by a talking cat from outer space to become the superheroes destined to save the world from the greatest evil threat in the Universe. Action and hilarity ensue as the team attempts to take down the alien threat while still getting all their term papers handed in on time in this science-fiction, comic book superhero, action-adventure comedy/parody!
· The Flames of Freedom by Iftekhar Sayeed: This is a story of how western foreign policy affects the lives of distant people: it begins by the Poshur River at Mongla and ends at Teknaf in Bangladesh. The themes are an insatiable longing for peace and the inevitability of violence.
· The Man in the White Pontiac by Liam Maloney: 10-year-old Brendan, the eldest son of a "down and out" Irish-American writer, struggles to make sense of the maelstrom of religious, moral and familial conflicts that surround him.
· The Visit by Brian Kayser: Growing up, our narrator played catch with his father until they could barely make out the ball. After not seeing his father for two years after a disagreement, our narrator finds himself immersed in memories and tension after inviting his father to dinner. Our narrator attempts to repair his relationship with his father without going back to old habits and painful memories.
· Tommy Braden by Jered W Johnston: New Kensington, Pennsylvania is a gritty little river town comprised mostly of blue-collar wage slaves and criminals. Whenever their shifts end, the laborers flock to the many mob owned bars which pepper "New Ken's" streets. Tommy Braden takes a look inside one of these bars for a single night and follows the reckless, and perhaps fatal, actions of a young mob enforcer.
POETRY:
· Brown Gold by Magdalena Ball
· Cottage in Three Oaks by Dave Frazier
· Crows by Joseph Welsh
· Death by Juliette Beswick Pokletar
· For... by Matthew Ryan Morris
· I'm Am by Tonn Pastore
· Mea Culpa by Chris Birrane
· Pressure by Sarah Koscielniak
· The Blessing: An ode to love's succession by Christopher Nagle
· The Persistence of Stones by Eileen Bell
· The Silent Ones by Jason Anderson
· Titanic - A Date with Destiny by Paul H Ward
· World at War by Dean Meredith
RIB HAS A NEW COLUMN: The Time Capsule
Forget magazine pronouncements of the sexiest or most interesting. Award shows come but once a year. Rating systems and polls do not include me. And who decides must lists?? Here is the place to get the feel... think zeitgeist... culture. Rib knows what we should be excited about and what should drop off the radar. Just call it instinct or let me know I am wrong and perhaps we could have it out. What has us thinking this month? Here is the flavor of the moment, a page in time for...
ASSORTED:
· But That's Okay by Shea Hennum: Everyone wonders about what happens after death, but sometimes we forget that it's what happens before that is more important. We forget that if you do good, you'll do well.
· I'm Struggling by Mattie Lennon: Have you ever tried to write about nothing. I have. The following is the result and you, dear reader can tell me if I succeeded.
· Poke Delete by Janice Kenyon: The aging process is inexorable, unstoppable, incorrigible. It shows no mercy, takes all prisoners. We each experience it, some sooner rather than later. Poke Delete takes you inside.
· What I Know of War by Steve Myers: Time runs backwards from the killings at Kent State through the military hospitals of the Vietnam War to World War II. We are left with the effects of war and the effects found in a dead soldier's pockets.
7 QUESTION INTERVIEWS:
· Gail Carriger: Gail Carriger a New York Times bestselling author. Current release: Timeless
· Carole DeSanti: Carole DeSanti is Vice President, Editor at Large at Viking Penguin. Current release: The Unruly Passions of Eugenie R.
· Helen Knode: Helen Knode is the author of two acclaimed mystery novels. Current release: Wildcat Play
· Robert McCammon: Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels. Current release: The Providence Rider
· Maureen McQuerry: Maureen Doyle McQuerry writes books for teens and adults. Current release: The Peculiars
· Chris Pavone: Chris Pavone a New York Times bestselling author. Current release: The Expats
· Taylor M. Polites: Taylor M. Polites is a debut novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island. Current release: The Rebel Wife
RIB RAW
BOOK REVIEWS
Give us a look, am sure you will like what you read. If you have an interest in being part of WritingRaw.com, please visit the site and do a little exploring. Am sure we have a niche for just about everyone and anything. Thank you.
Let the world know about http://www.writingraw.com/ and all the good and positive things we do for up-and-coming writers.
Weeb
WritingRaw.com
Rosy Thornton author talk at Felixstowe Library
A reminder about our forthcoming talk by author, Rosy Thornton on Saturday 30th June, National Reading Group Day. Rosy will be with us between 2 and 4pm. We still have some tickets left so if any of your members would like to come then please ask them to pop into the library for a ticket or reserve one over the phone. The library phone number is 625766.
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