http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 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 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/naming-dusk-in-dead-languages/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/naming-dusk-in-dead-languages/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:23:38 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=711 ... is the title of Ulverston-based poet Gill Nicholson's first poetry collection, deservedly praised by fellow Cumbrian poet M R Peacocke, who writes: "Gill Nicholson writes about in-between states: she is 'a woman who embraces dusk.' The poems slip between light and dark, youth and age, past and present, what's felt and what's seen, without needing to urge the reader to take the point. At its best, there is an effortlessness in the writing which is rare. When you read that 'silence condenses over the tarn', or that snow is 'enough to smother currant bushes', you are there at once in the place and the moment, listening." ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/naming-dusk-in-dead-languages/feed/ 0