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/liars-league-and-other-write-ideas/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/liars-league-and-other-write-ideas/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:11:25 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5504 Sedbergh's Write Idea festival is back at the end of February with another three days of events to enliven England's Book Town. Topping the bill this time is Sedbergh's take on one of the country's most innovative live fiction events, Liars' League - and they're looking for Cumbrian 'liars' to contribute to a show scheduled for Friday 24 February. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/liars-league-and-other-write-ideas/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/take-a-popshot/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/take-a-popshot/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:44:57 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5322 Poet David Tait, formerly but briefly of this parish and now unaccountably domiciled in Yorkshire, has been in touch to tell us about the rather lovely Popshot magazine and its search for poems and pictures on the theme of 'power'. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/take-a-popshot/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-dark-mountain-wants-you-to-climb-it/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-dark-mountain-wants-you-to-climb-it/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:53:51 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=5111 Ulverston writer Paul Kingsnorth is back from an extended sojourn in the South American wilderness and has returned to the steep and rocky slopes of the Dark Mountain Project. There have been two Dark Mountain books so far; now Kingsnorth and his fellow editors are working on number three, and they're looking for submissions. Read more>> ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-dark-mountain-wants-you-to-climb-it/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/two-ravens-want-your-ecopoems/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/two-ravens-want-your-ecopoems/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:19:29 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=4810 Following their recent decision to refocus their list on ‘eco-literature’ and writing that challenges and unpicks the status quo, and the announcement of an ambitious new magazine, EarthLines, Hebridean independent publisher Two Ravens Press is looking for submissions for an anthology of new ecopoetry to be published in November 2012. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/two-ravens-want-your-ecopoems/feed/ 0