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/words-by-the-water-competition-deadlines-looming/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/words-by-the-water-competition-deadlines-looming/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:33:19 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5570 You have until 10 February to send in your entries to two competitions being organised as part of the Words by the Water Festival of Words and Ideas in Keswick this March. Read more>> ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/words-by-the-water-competition-deadlines-looming/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/ear-ear/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/ear-ear/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:34:17 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5478 In collaboration with Edinburgh-based Maison Vee's jewellery, Maryport-based The Journal and Original Plus Publications has announced the free-to-enter Silversmith Poetry Competition. But not that free. All poems have to be about earrings. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/ear-ear/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/mslexia-womens-short-story-competition-2012/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/mslexia-womens-short-story-competition-2012/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:41:54 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5394 "There’s no recipe for a good short story – in fact, they need to be unexpected, surprising. The most familiar material can be surprising if it’s seen freshly." So says Mslexia competition judge Tessa Hadley. To see if you can surprise her, read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/mslexia-womens-short-story-competition-2012/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/more-winnings-in-warwick-bridge/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/more-winnings-in-warwick-bridge/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:15:21 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5174 Poet Terry Jones' decision to give up his lecturing job at Carlisle College in the summer, to devote more time to his writing, has paid off. He bagged the prestigious £5,000 Bridport Poetry Prize a few weeks ago, and now he's won first and second in another couple of competitions. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/more-winnings-in-warwick-bridge/feed/ 0