http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:46:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-at-least-10-rules-of-writing/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-at-least-10-rules-of-writing/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:43:48 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=754 Elmore Leonard's famous 10 rules have just been published in book form (with brilliantly sinuous, hard-boiled drawings by Joseph Ciardiello) in the UK, but you can read them for nowt here on The Guardian's website, along with more 10 rulers from Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy and many others ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/the-at-least-10-rules-of-writing/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-compendium/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-compendium/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:55:50 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=742 We can't find a better competitions listing than that provided by The Poetry Kit. It covers short story and other creative writing competitions as well as poetry, so we suggest you bookmark it and visit frequently or - better still -sign up for their competitions newsletter (emailed on the first of every month).]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-compendium/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/wordsworths-dead-read-our-latest-newsletter/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/wordsworths-dead-read-our-latest-newsletter/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:11:57 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=726 If you don't subscribe to our e-newsletter, read the March issue here - Wordsworth's Dead No.1 Mar 2010 To subscribe, email us at enquiries@newwritingcumbria.org.uk]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/wordsworths-dead-read-our-latest-newsletter/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/cheap-thrills-in-orton/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/cheap-thrills-in-orton/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:53:09 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=719 Writers and readers are warmly invited to the Orton Scribblers Open Evening on Monday 8 March (7.30pm-9.30pm), discussing "Fiction and Non-Fiction" with thriller writer Zoe Sharp and Funny Farm resident Jackie Moffat. Bring your questions and join in the crack at Orton Market Hall. Lake District-based Zoe Sharp is the author of the Charlie Fox crime thrillers Killer Instinct, Riot Act, Hard Knocks, First Drop, Third Strike, Second Shot and Road Kill. Ainstable's Jackie Moffat is a columnist for Cumbria Life and author of The Funny Farm and Sheepwrecked.]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/cheap-thrills-in-orton/feed/ 0