http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:19:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-latest/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-latest/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:52:35 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=1210 All the competitions with August closing dates. If you're quick (6 August deadline), you might be in with a chance in the massive £10,000 Manchester Poetry Prize or the prestigious Arvon International Poetry Competition, which this year offers its largest ever first prize, £7,500. If you miss these, spend the rest of the summer fine-tuning your entries for Aesthetica Magazine's Creative Works competition and take a punt on a £500 prize plus trimmings. Find all these and more prizes here ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/competitions-latest/feed/ 1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/events-latest-your-guide-to-whats-on/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/events-latest-your-guide-to-whats-on/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:28:57 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=817 Tickets for this year's festival in England's Book Town are now on sale. The Write Idea starts up on 17 September, with programme highlights ranging from award-winning Cumbrian novelist Sarah Hall to aristocratic wild man Sir John Lister-Kaye. To find out more, and get the low-down on all this month's events around the county, click here ... Got an event you want to tell us about? Send details to enquiries@newwritingcumbria.org.uk. ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/events-latest-your-guide-to-whats-on/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/download-flax021-from-litfest/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/download-flax021-from-litfest/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:40:49 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=1315 The latest online anthology from Lancaster Litfest's Flax imprint features short fiction by five North West writers, and one of them is Whitehaven's Emma Bragg (pictured). Entitled This Road We're On, this is the first Flax anthology with a connecting theme – relationships, specifically the pot-holed journey that is our search for companionship, love and acceptance. Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/download-flax021-from-litfest/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/fiction-weekends-start-booking-up/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/fiction-weekends-start-booking-up/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:33:26 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=1304 John Murray’s Farmhouse Fiction Weekends have attracted a recent surge of interest. The writers who have been booking seem as keen to sample John’s gourmet vegetarian cooking and explore little-known rural north Cumbria as they are to hone their literary skills in his eighteenth-century farmhouse. There has been especial interest in the October weekends, so if that’s when you’d like to attend one of the fiction courses, it’s advisable to book as soon as you can. Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/fiction-weekends-start-booking-up/feed/ 0