June 2008
Items for the June newsletter should be
sent to read.write@york.gov.uk
by Friday 20th 2008.
News…
York Big City Read
In July and August 2008 people from across the city of
York are coming
City Read is part of the National Year of
Reading celebrations in York. The
aim of the Big City Read is to get as many
people as possible to read and
talk about 'The Railway Children'.
We are working in partnership with York
City Screen, York Theatre Royal and
the National Railway Museum so, once you've
read the book you can also see
the film, the play and then maybe buy the
t-shirt...
York Libraries are working with penguin to
give away 2000 copies of 'The
Railway Children'. From Friday 27th June
copies will be available from the
mobile library at St Sampson's Square as
part of the Learning Festival.
Copies will also be available from
York Theatre Royal and
the National Railway Museum. But be
quick...when they're gone, they're gone!
Keep checking York Library website for
information about events for the National Year of Reading. Alternatively,
take a reading challenge by visiting www.yearofreading.org.uk
Events
Friday 30th May, 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Mike
Pannett Signing - 'Now Then Lad'
WATERSTONE'S YORK
North Yorkshire from the point of view of a policeman used to the
robberies and gun crime of Battersea and Croydon. Come meet the author of
this brilliant new memoir chronicling his move from the inner city to the
rural countryside.
Further
details: 01904 628740
Sunday 1st June 1:00-2:00pm
Black Swan, Peasholme Green
Ox Hardwick will be hosting the open poetry hour at
the Black Swan as part of the City of York Folk Weekend.
Sunday 1st
June 6-9 pm
Dream Catcher writers’ workshop at
The Minster Inn on Marygate. Meet
in the back, left-hand room, past the bar. Bring 5 or 6 copies of your work,
which ought not to exceed 2,000 words or four sides of A4.
Also bring £2, £1 if you're under 18 or paying for someone under
18. For more info about Dream Catcher, try typing www.dreamcatchermagazine.co.uk.
Tuesday 3rd June
York Spoken Word 7.30 –9.30 pm
The popular Spoken Word Open Mic Poetry & Prose meets the first
Tuesday of every month, at the Exhibition Hotel in York. It's a lively
meeting with anywhere from 15 to 30 listeners/readers. Our venue has
featured three times on Radio Ryedale Website in the Poetry Corner section.
Never a charge for entry! We welcome folk singers, poets, monologists, and
writers with short-short stories. Disabled access, under 16s welcomed, food
and drink available. Spread the WORD!!
Meet in the Conservatory, rear of
pub/restaurant/ hotel at the corner of Bootham and Gillygate. For info: Rose
Drew or Alan Gillott yorkspokenword@yahoo.co.uk or 07914 271871
Wednesday
4th June
York
Writers
meet at 8pm
York
Writers meet every alternate Wednesday at Guppy's Enterprise Club on Nunnery
Lane. The doors open at 8pm and meeting's start at 8.10pm. We're a friendly
group of people, ranging from successful novelists, short story
writers and poets to individuals just starting out. We aim to give
constructive feedback and advice about getting published. There is a new
website up and running at www.yorkwriters.org.uk
for further information contact clintwastling@aol.com
This
is our monthly manuscript evening. Please bring along work in progress or
the finished piece to read out and receive constructive feedback and
possible markets. (Poetry or prose welcome). Guest fee £2.60.
Thursday 5th June
Borders, York 6:30pm
Poetry Reading -
'A Feather Down A Mineshaft'. Join Richard Young as
he reads from his humorous poetry book 'A Feather Down A Mineshaft'.
Refreshments will be provided so join us for a lovely evening of poetry.
Contact 653300
Friday 6th June
York Poetry Society
7.30 –9.30 pm
Born in the 1940s Martin Bashforth introduces poets who were born
in this decade. Bring your
choice of poet and one or two poems to read.
Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane, off Micklegate,
York Members
: £1 Visitors
are very welcome, £2 (includes refreshments)
For further information: contact:
P.A. Ruddle, phone: York 783850
email: leeruddle@btinternet.com
or G. Ewing, phone: 01653
693888
email: Gillian@mountmalton.fsnet.co.uk
Saturday 7th June
10:45 am
York Poetry Workshop meet at Guppy's. For further details tel Margaret on 708682
Wednesday 11th
June
The Speakers’
Corner : Open mic for poetry, storytelling, and spoken
word. 7.30 for an 8 pm start, upstairs at the Yorkshire Terrier, Stonegate.
Admission £1.00. Sign up at the door for open mic slots. Special guest to
be announced!
For more information
telephone Andy Humphrey on 01904 785138. Alternatively email info@aestheticamagazine.com
(please put Speakers' Corner in the subject line),or visit http://www.aesthetica-online.com/speakerscorner.htm.
Friday 13th
June
Late Music Festival –
Don Walls
Songs for Don
Local composer Steve Crowther has set five poems by well-known York
poet Don Walls to music. They will be performed as part of the Late Music
Festival (www.latemusicfestival.org.uk)
on Friday 13 June at 1pm at the National Centre for Early Music in Walmgate,
by Mike Solomon Williams, tickets at £5 (£3 concessions). The concert will
also feature music by Poulenc, Debussy and Satie
Tuesday 17th June
PEN
TO PAPER -
Writers' Support Group - Meets monthly. The Loft, Miller's Yard, Gillygate.
7.00 - 9.00.pm. Next meeting June 17th. £6.00 . Refreshments
included
This
is the group that you've been looking for.
Contact:
Lizzi Linklater: e.linklater@ntlworld.com 01904 331855 /
07855 456574
Wednesday 18th June
York Writers meet at Guppy’s
on Nunnery Lane at 8:00pm.
Win a Competition Entry! Bring along a poem or
prose upto 1000 words to be considered. The winner is decided by a vote of
all present. There is a new website up and running at www.yorkwriters.org.uk
for further information contact clintwastling@aol.com
Thursday 19th June
An evening with Andrew Martin. Borders 6:30 pm.
Join us for a very special talk and reading by
bestselling author Andrew Martin. Andrew will be reading from the new novel
in his Railway Detective series 'Death on a Brachline' and will be free to
answer your questions. We will have wine and refreshments so come along and
meet one of the nations best loved authors. This is going to be a popular
event so make sure you get here early! Contact 653300.
Saturday 21st June
The Archivists'
Play Marriott Room, York Library.
A fictitious
archival exploration of York Mystery Plays through performance, sound and
video, guided by York St John Community Arts and Applied Theatre students.
The York Mystery Plays have been handed down through York residents from
their medieval guild origins, through Victorian interpretation to late
twentieth century revival. This event is located in York library, keeper of
city fictions and archives. Audiences will witness rediscovery and
interpretations of the mystery plays through living history in a shifting
presentation of one of the city's richest treasures. Realised in
collaboration with Yorkshire Film Archive.
Times:12.30, 1.30,
2.30, 3.30pm. Performances will last for 20 minutes.
Tuesday 24th June
WRITERS
@ YORK LIBRARY - Writers' Support Group - Meets monthly. The Marriott Room, Central
Library, York. 1.30 - 3.30. Next meeting June 24th £4.00
You
don't have
to go it
alone.....
Lizzi
Linklater: e.linklater@ntlworld.com 01904 331855/ 07855 456574
Friday 27th June
Big City Read Launch at
the Learning Festival, St Sampson’s Square.
Join us this
summer in the first York Big City Read to celebrate the National Year Of
Reading. York Libraries are working with penguin to give away over 2000
copies of Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Railway Children’. We’re planning lots
of events with partners so, once you’ve read the book you can see the
film, the play and maybe buy the t-shirt…
Copies will be
available from 27 June as part of the Learning Festival in St Sampson’s
Square. Be quick…when they’re gone, they’re gone!
For further
details visit your local library, www.york.gov.uk/leisure/libraries
Saturday 28th June
‘How to write for children’ 10 am – 12pm Marriott
Room, York Library.
A
special taster session on ‘writing for children’ with experienced tutor
and author Judith Duncan. Do you want to write for children? A children's
writer should be ideally a dedicated semi-lunatic with at least one
marvellous idea. Come and dip your imagination into a general view of what
you have to think about when writing for children, e.g. what is meant by
showing not telling, what is characterisation, what is dialogue used for,
and how and from where do you get ideas.Come along and find out. P.S. This
talk carries a
WARNING :-
Writing for children may not be simple but after
two hours you will probably
come away bursting, with ideas.
Free but £5 charge for those who book but then fail to attend.
To book your place contact anne.mortimer@york.gov.uk
or telephone
01904 554316
Tuesday 1 July
‘How to Write
for children’ 9:30 –11:30 am and 1:00-3:00 pm
Explore: Acomb
Library Learning Centre
A repeat of the
Saturday taster session – please refer to Saturday 28th June
for details and contact information.
Writing
Competitions With Approaching Deadlines
Want
to be published alongside JK Rowling, Doris Lessing, Neil Gaiman, Michael
Rosen, Nick Hornby, Sebastian Faulks, Lauren Child, Tom Stoppard and Irvine
Welsh to name but a few?
To
celebrate the National Year of Reading we've asked 13 world-class authors to
tell us their story, and we'd love you to tell us yours.
It
doesn't matter what you write, from four words to four hundred - just as
long as it fits on our story card. Our favourite stories will be published
in our online gallery, and three lucky winners - two adults and one child -
from the Waterstones.com and store entries will also appear in a postcard
book alongside our authors' stories. All profits from the sale of the
postcard book will go to Dyslexia Action and English PEN.
You
will be able to read our authors' stories in our gallery and in our store
windows from 11th June 2008.
About the
competition
With
over 30,000 books, the average Waterstone's has a lot of stories to tell.
But we want more. They say everyone has a story in them, so let it out!
As
well as appearing alongside some of the world's greatest living writers, the
national winners aged over 18 will also win an Arvon Writing Course and
winners under 18 will receive £500
of Waterstone's vouchers.
For
more details visit www.waterstones.com
or call into the store to pick up an entry form.
The
Poetry Society's
National
Poetry Competition 2008
is
now open for entries!
Enter
The National Poetry Competition 2008
This
is the perfect opportunity to have your poems read by three of
today's leading poets, stand the chance to win £5000, and see
your name added to the impressive list of past winners,
including Michael Hulse, Carol Ann Duffy, Jo Shapcott, Ruth Padel,
Ian Duhig and our current winner Sinéad Morrissey.
Prizes
First prize £5,000
Second prize £1,000
Third prize £500
All three winners will receive a free annual subscription
to Aesthetica Magazine.
plus ten commendations of £50
Winners
also get the opportunity to read their winning poem alongside the judges at
the 2009 at Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Judges:
Frieda Hughes, Jack Mapanje, Brian Patten
Entry Fee:
£5.00
for first poem then £3.00 for each subsequent entry. Members
of the Poetry Society can enter a second poem free of charge.
Closing date:
31 October 2008
For an entry form to be posted to you, please send an A5 SAE to
Competition Organiser (website), 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX or
visit the poetry society website.
Bridport Prize 2008
Competition
Rules
Closing date for receipt of postal entries: 30th June 2008
Closing date for online entries: 30th June 2008 Midnight GMT
Maximum of 5000 words for short stories
Maximum of 42 lines for poems
Eligibility
- The
Prize is open to anyone, including non-UK applicants,over 18 years.
- Entries
must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been
published, self-published, published on any website or broadcast.
- Entries
submitted posthumously will not be eligible.
Fees
- Entry
fee is £6 per poem or story (you can send as many entries as you like)
- Fees
are payable in sterling by credit/debit card, cheque or postal order.
Cheques must be from a UK bank and should be payable to The Bridport
Prize with the sender's name and address on the back
- Online
entries are paid as you submit, using the WorldPay system
- Postal
entries from overseas can only be paid by credit/debit card or in cash
(notes only, NO coins) - either US dollars (US$12 per entry) or Euros
(€10 per entry)
- Overseas
cheques, money orders or drafts will not be accepted
Entry Format
- Entries
must be in English (preferably typed), single sided, with pages numbered
and securely fastened; each entry on a new sheet
- Stories
to be double spaced; poems to be single spaced
- Entries
must show no name, address or identifying marks other than the title
- Entries
are not returned, keep a copy
- No
corrections can be made after receipt, nor fees refunded
Receipt of entry
- Enclose
a stamped addressed postcard marked 'ACKNOWLEDGEMENT' if you require
acknowledgement of receipt of your postal entry
- Online
entries are confirmed by the email receipt of your payment to WorldPay
- It
is not possible to confirm receipt of entries by phone or email
Results
- To
receive the judges' reports (winning entries only) and full results in
November 2008 - enclose an A5 stamped addressed envelope marked
'RESULTS'
- Alternatively,
check the website for details after mid November 2008
Copyright
- Worldwide
copyright of each entry remains with the author, but the Bridport Prize
will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning poems and
stories, (including runners up), in the annual anthology
Judging
- The
judges' decision is final and no individual correspondence can be
entered into
- Judges
are unable to comment on individual entries
- Judging
is fair and independent. Professional and experienced readers select
longlists for the named judges
Prizes
Prizes
for both short story and poetry categories are:
- 1st
£5000, 2nd £1000 , 3rd £500
plus 10 supplementary prizes of £50 each
- No
competitor may win more than one prize in each category
- The
Dorset Award for the highest placed writer resident in Dorset is £100
Prizewinners / prizegiving
- Prizewinners
will be notified in writing by beginning of October 2008
- The
list of prizewinners will be displayed on the website after the
prizegiving ceremony in November
- Prizes
will be awarded on 8th November 2008
Entry implies acceptance of all the
rules
Failure to comply with the entry requirements will result in
disqualification
Fill
in form online, print out then post
OR
Enter online
Postal entries should be sent to:
The Bridport Prize
PO Box 6910
DORSET
DT6 9BQ
Tel: 01308 428333
Exciting new opportunities are underway at Aesthetica magazine -
New Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition
The Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition will champion new
talent in the genres of visual arts, photography, poetry and fiction.
The competition is separate from Aesthetica Magazine, however
the annual event is organised by the founders of Aesthetica Magazine.
Details of the Annual Competition:
1. The competition
will accept entries of creative writing (poetry & fiction) as well as
artwork and photography.
2. Each section
will have one winner that will receive a prize of £500 and a subscription
to Aesthetica Magazine
3. The new
Aesthetica Annual will be a book that will present winning entries and
runners-up in the genres of artwork, poetry and fiction. It will be
distributed through Borders stores nationwide.
4. Entry allows
the submission of either five images of artwork, three short stories (up to
2000 words each), or five poems (up to 40 lines each).
5. The entry fee
for the Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition is £10.
6. Deadline for
entries is 31 August 2008.
For further information please go to http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
Aesthetica Magazine will still continue to be published bi-monthly
covering visual arts, literature, film, music and theatre all in one issue.
We will still continue to distribute through WH Smith and Borders.
However our literature section is evolving and we will be working with major
publishers to bring you exclusive excerpts from newly published novels
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