http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:48:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-monthly-flash-03/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-monthly-flash-03/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:26:18 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5601 A white mountain range rose in the distance and against that backdrop the caribou moved on and on. Then they vanished. Fred craned his neck as far as he was able but only the brick terrace across the road now filled his field of vision ... Read Christine Howe's story, Day of the Caribou>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-monthly-flash-03/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-27/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-27/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:55:22 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5588 Short and sharp, sweet and sour - South Lakeland's former Poet Laureate Maggie Norton gets her ticket punched en route to Penrith in A Late Love Poem>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-27/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-26/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-26/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:55:29 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5515 The nearest you can get to loft living in Carlisle, Shaddon or Dixon's Mill is now a huge block of swanky apartments, itself dwarfed by the defiant finger of Dixon's Chimney. Kathleen Jones's great grandad knew it before the floors were sanded. Read the poem, Dixon's Mill>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-weekly-poem-26/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/working-nights-a-festive-flash/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/working-nights-a-festive-flash/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:59:27 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5427 Our Consulting Flash Fiction Editor, Brindley Hallam Dennis, sent us this story in the Christmas hols, in the hope that we might be able to rattle it out in a truncated Christmas issue of The Weekly Word. Sadly, we were so truncated by confectionery and cut-price single malt that we couldn't get off the sofa. So treat this offering by Jenny Harrow as a late Christmas card and unexpected gift. Read Working Nights>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/working-nights-a-festive-flash/feed/ 0