EMIT November 2009

Connecting the literature community
A Literature Network publication
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November brings new publications from Weathervane Press, and new novels and a poetry collection from Sue Moorcroft and Cathy Grindrod respectively. Ross Bradshaw share his diary of a literary holiday, and we discuss what it is we really want from our bookshops. And Derbyshire County Council are looking for a Reading Champion. Are you the one to take up their gauntlet!?

For all this and more, read on!

Damien Walter, Literature Network Coordinator

ARTICLES and NEWS

• The Sky, Head On by Cathy Grindrod

• Weathervane Press

• New books from Sue Moorcroft

Read more News

BLOGGERS

Bookshops are not churches. But.

Earlier this week the Guardian book website unleashed a tumult of anger and frustration against the UK’s largest bookseller, Waterstones. The thrust of Stuart Jeffries article was that with its increasing commercialisation (3-4-2 sales, celebrity biogs etc etc) Waterstones had gone from saviour to destroyer of bookselling in just over a decade.

• What I did on my holidays. Part One.

• What I did on my holidays. Part Two.

• Will you take part with NaNoWriMo?

Read more blogs

EVENTS

• The Entrepreneurial Writer

• Short Fuse presents Beautiful Game

• The Storytelling Cafe

• Flying Goose Readings

Find more events near you.

OPPORTUNITIES

Derbyshire Reading Champion

Derbyshire County Council is looking to appoint a Reading Champion to work with library staff, staff from other Departments and other organisations to encourage a love of books and reading in children and young people.

• Freelance Project Coordinator

• Brightsparks Comedy Workshops

• Submit your poetry to Popshot magazine

Many more opportunities for writers.

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