Our Next Meeting

Our next meeting and news...

It's another Bank Holiday arriving and currently the sun is shining brightly so let's keep our fingers crossed for a lovely long weekend break.

Our next meeting follows rapidly on its heels and will take place on Tuesday 1st June at 7.30pm in the Room at the Top, Felixstowe Library. As always the meeting is due to commence at 7.30pm. The theme for the homework assignment is 'Rainbow' so there could be some colourful writing involved with that.

As we approach a committee meeting to discuss a replacement for the secretary's post you are invited to suggest what you would like at our meetings and ways in which we can improve them. Please respond by Saturday 5th June.

I understand that Geraldine Rose is to launch her book 'Feeding Strawberries to Pigs'at Cretingham golf club on Saturday 3rd July. You are invited to attend the fund raising event for the Meningitis Research Foundation but tickets must be booked in advance. Visit the website www.meningitis.org to find out why she is raising funds for this charity.

There are 12 shortlisted writers from over 80 entries for the IpArt Short Story Competition. They are Gemma Anderson, Barry Baddock, Jane Bailey, Jenny Barnett, Ed Broom, Ruth Fitzgerald, Angela Lawrence, Rebecca Moore, Angela Petch, Sheila Preston, Hannah Rowe, Kate Thurlow. Nice to see our own Jane and Angela featured in the list so how lovely it would be for them to achieve the top two places. Good luck ladies!

The standard of writing, we are told, was very high leaving the Finalist judge, Kate Pullinger a difficult task of selecting a winner and runner-up. She will announce the winner and present the prizes on Monday 28 June, 6pm at University Campus Suffolk. It is understood that during the Ipswich Arts Festival there will be the opportunity to read the shortlisted stories online!

From the Young African Writers Cooperative comes a new collection of poetry by Stephen Derwent Partington entitled 'How to Euthanise a Cactus'. Published by the Cinnamon Press the book costs £7.99.

Enjoy your Bank Holiday weekend and remember,

Keep Scribbling!

We all have our problems!

From the Riverside Writers diagonally located on the Wirral comes news of their Anthology. The long-awaited antho project is currently being re-printed. Having been collected from the printers to avoid handling and delivery charges) they discovered a major error had occurred in production - namely, the cover didn't fit! A re-print was negotiated as it was the printer's error, and it is hoped it will be available this weekend.

However, Riverside Writers will most likely be arranging an official launch event to be held June/July (date TBC) at West Kirby Library. This has already been mentioned with library staff, as there is a possibility that our anticipated group contribution to this year's Bookfest won't be part of the festival week. This is because they're apparently heavily booked with big names, and we'd be competing for their audience - a problem we have experienced with previous Bookfests.

From the Felixstowe Scribblers - good luck!

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BBC WRITERSROOM NEWSLETTER

Welcome to the BBC writersroom newsletter.

Five Days in May
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Deadline: 1 June 2010
The BBC are looking for rapid response scripts about the five days between the general election and the formation of the new government.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/five_days_in_may.shtml

Television Drama - The Writers' Festival 2010
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A two day exploration of new writing in Leeds for writers with a television broadcast credit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/television_drama_writers_debate.shtml

Tony Basgallop
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The writer of Worried About The Boy talks about his work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/tony_basgallop.shtml

Stephen Butchard
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The writer of Five Daughters and House of Saddam talks about his career
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/stephen_butchard.shtml

New Scripts
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Our scripts are in PDF format - if you can't read them, download Adobe Reader from http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/categories/plug/acrobat/acrobat.shtml?intro

People Snogging in Public Places by Jack Thorne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/downloads/scripts/people_snogging_in_public_places.pdf

Don't forget you can browse through all of the scripts in our script archive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/script_archive.shtml

Submitting your script to BBC writersroom
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Want to write for the BBC? Find out what to send us on our script submissions page.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/submissions_writersroom.shtml

Blog
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Wherein Joy talks about writing for Doctors, and Ceri about this year's Drama Writers Academy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/

Opportunities
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Old Vic New Voices
Deadline: 24 May 2010
The Old Vic are looking for writers aged 18-25 to create new theatre in just 24 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/old_vic_new_voices1.shtml

Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award
Deadline: 1 July 2010
$2.500 award and readthrough at the International Emmy Awards for a half-hour or hour drama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunity/sir_peter_ustinov_award.shtml

The winner...

Tony becomes the first Felixstowe Scribbler to win The Bill Budner Trophy twice. Here he is being presented with the cup by Linda.

Report of Meeting

FELIXSTOWE SCRIBBLERS NEWSHEET

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REPORT OF THE MEETING HELD 18th MAY 2010

Apologies: Ruth, Jane, Trish, Sue, Les and Connie.

Present: Dick, Liliane, Tony, Linda, Barry, Peter, and Dave (chair)

SCRIBBLERS NEWS

It was quite a disappointing turnout for the anonymous competition which has been so popular in the past and with Peter unable to arrive before the readings he was unfortunately ineligible to take part. With only six competing writers the odds were just in favour of one of the former holders winning the trophy again.

Needless to say that despite the valiant efforts of the other writers our first ever winner, Tony, came out on top again! Well done Tony! This was the first time in ten competitions that a writer has won it for the second time. Tony was presented with the cup by Linda in lieu of previous holder Angela who is currently abroad. A picture appears on our weblog.

Once again the stories were fascinating and the ability to hear one’s own work read out by someone else makes it just that bit special. Tony now holds the trophy for four months until it is held again in September.

The Committee meeting planned for 25th May has been cancelled and put back to Tuesday 8th June.

For those who enjoy the amateur dramatic scene Rushmere Players are performing Under Milk Ward on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st May at the Rushmere Hall Primary School in Ipswich. Tickets are £7.50.

Also, an excellent evening’s entertainment was produced by Springfield Follies with their Variety Show last weekend and they have two further performances coming up on Saturday 22nd May.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances the deadline for The 4th annual Ted Walters international writing competition has been extended until the 30th of June, to give our competition the justice it thoroughly deserves.

THE PLATFORM

Barry read Tragic Yellow which was written by Linda.
Linda read Why Did I do it? Written by Tony
Tony read Facebook written by Barry
Liliane read Hotel Mayhem written by Dick
Dick read Mr Plod written by Dave
Dave read Food for the Birds written by Liliane.

The winner was Tony with joint runners-up Barry and Liliane.

Our Next Meeting will be on Tuesday 1st June at 7.30pm in the Room at the Top, Felixstowe Library when Barry and Liliane will produce the 1,500 word open themed work and the assignment for everyone else is 500 or so words on “Rainbow.”
Until then,

Keep Scribbling!


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Under Milk Wood

The Bill Budner Trophy

Who won the tenth staging of the competition? All will be revealed soon....