Pomegranate New Playwriting Competition and Festival

Pomegranate Theatre is currently seeking submissions for their New Playwriting Competition. Shortlisted pieces will be performed as rehearsed readings in front of an audience and invited judges during the New Playwriting Festival in March 2011. The audience will then decide which pieces will go through to the final at the end of the week.

The prize for the winning piece will be £500 and a possible commission for a new full-length piece of work. Scripts can be in any style, be fact-based or fictional, and should be between 30 and 45 minutes in length. All pieces should be designed to be performed at The Pomegranate Theatre in a studio-style setting. Scripts should be for no more than 4 professional actors.

Closing date 30th September 2010.
There is a £5 fee for entering. Successful entrants will be notified by 30th October 2010.

For further information and an application form please contact Carole Copeland at the theatre on 01246 345215 or email carole.copeland@chesterfield.gov.uk

Lecturer in Creative & Professional Writing

Closing Date Tuesday, 10th August 2010
Department School of Education

Salary £32620 to £43840 per annum, depending on qualifications and experience (salary can progress to £50,822 per annum, subject to performance)
Applications are invited for the above post in the School of Education, based at the University’s Jubilee Campus. The person appointed will provide leadership, curriculum development and quality assurance for the School’s BA creative and professional writing course. They will also write, research and publish in an area relevant to one of the School’s research centres.

Candidates should hold a good honours degree in English Language/Literature, creative writing or a related subject, a postgraduate qualification and a PhD (completed or near to completion). They should also have proven competence in teaching of creative writing.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr S Speight, Email: sarah.speight@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this Email address will not be accepted.

For full details and how to apply please see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/SM00465E

Dylan Thomas Sony Reader Award

Sony UK has announced that it will sponsor a newly created category in this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize – the Sony Reader Award for Unpublished Writers.

Sony UK has announced that it will sponsor a newly created category in this year’s Dylan Thomas Prize – the Sony Reader Award for Unpublished Writers.

The Dylan Thomas Prize is the world’s largest literary award for young writers. The prize was established to recognise the international work of Dylan Thomas, whose first book of poetry was published when he was just 21, and it supports the work of newly published authors.

The new Sony Reader Award category has been created specifically to support unpublished British novel writers under the age of 30 using electronic book formats for the entire process, from submission of the entries through to judging and then publication. The winner will receive a cash prize of £5,000, and their book will be published in eBook format and made available for download from the Sony UK website in time for the Christmas season.

eBook entries will need to be submitted in PDF, Word or EPUB format via the Reader website at www.sony.co.uk/reader between Thursday 1 July and Tuesday 31 August, and the shortlisted writers will be notified in September. The winner of the award will be announced at the Dylan Thomas Prize Award Ceremony on Wednesday 1 December 2010.

International Playwriting Festival 2010

The 25th Year International Playwriting Festival 2010 competition accepts entries from all over the world, and is judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practitioners.

The 25th Year International Playwriting Festival 2010 competition accepts entries from all over the world, and is judged by a panel of distinguished theatre practioners. The best selected plays will be showcased at the Festival weekend, held in March 2010, with a view to further production.

For further information, visit www.warehousetheatre.co.uk/ipf10.html or email Ted Craig at ted@warehousetheatre.co.uk

Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2010

Details of the Mslexia women’s poetry competition 2010 have now been announced.

First prize £1,000, second £500, third £250 and 22 other finalists will receive £25 each.

All winning poems will be published in Mslexia. Judge: Vicki Feaver.

Entry fee: £5 for up to three poems.

Online entry now available. For full details visit:

www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_rules.php

Closing date: 26 July 2010

Writer in Residence for Our Corby

Our Corby is an exciting project that will use an extensive collection of photographs to create new artistic work. Arts and heritage organisations, and local communities, will be brought together to celebrate Corby’s history of absorbing new cultures as it grew from stone-built village of fifteen hundred souls, to steel boomtown with a population of more than fifty thousand, in less than fifty years.

As Corby adapts to a new post-industrial identity, we are looking for a professional writer, with strong history of publication or performance and skilled in working in community settings, to be our Writer in Residence.

To find out more about this exciting opportunity and to download the full brief, go to http://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/professional/residencies/our_corby/writers_in_residence_advert/

Can you help get Everybody Reading?

The Literature Network are proud to be a partner in the Everybody’s Reading festival which will run from 2nd-10th October 2010, and we want to know if you can help get Everybody Reading in Leicester?

We are looking for people and organisations who love reading to join in with the Everybody’s Reading festival between 2nd – 10th October 2010. Special reading events will be taking place all over the city in schools, libraries, community centres, theatres, shops and restaurants. If you are someone who loves reading and would like to help, or a venue that would like to host a reading event, we want to hear from you.

The deadline for small grants and to get details of your event listed in the Everybody’s Reading newspaper is Friday 23rd July 2010.

Everybody’s Reading is part of Whatever It Takes, a pioneering scheme to get every primary school child in Leicester reading, and is organised in partnership with Leicester City Council, the Literature Network and Leicester Libraries.

Small grants of around £200 will be available to help support events by voluntary and community groups and elsewhere if neccesary.

Look at the the Everybody’s Reading blog for updates about the festival: http://everybodysreading.wordpress.com

Get in touch with the festival organisers to discuss your ideas and get help planning an event: Damien Walter – damien@charnwood-arts.org.uk or Ellie Lee ellen.lee@sdsa.net

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Submissions for Popshot Magazine

The Poetry & Illustration magazine, Popshot, is now looking for submissions for its fourth issue.

The theme is ‘This Is Modern Living’.

We look for poems with originality, not carbon copies of poetry classics.

Poems with a linguistic focus on rhythm, repetition and pattern are preferred but this definitely doesn’t mean obscure free verse is overlooked.

Poems must be no longer than 25 lines, previously unpublished and written to the theme.

Please also include a paragraph or two about yourself and a short explanation of the poem – why you came to write it and what it means to you.

Submit poems by email to submit@popshotpopshot.com by the 31st July 2010 at the very latest.

H.E. Bates Short Story Competition 2010

The ever-popular H.E. Bates Short Story Competition is back but with a few changes. From this year, the competition will be run independently by Northampton Writers’ Group (NWG), with the support of Northamptonshire County Council (NCC). NCC wish to give their sincere thanks to NWG for their great work on the competition over that last few years.

For more information, rules and details on how to enter, see http://www.hebatescompetition.org.uk/.

National Poetry Competition

Now in its 33rd year, the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious poetry competitions. Winners include both established and emerging poets and for many the prize has proved an important milestone in their professional careers. Add your name to a roll-call of winners that includes Carol Ann Duffy, Ian Duhig, Philip Gross, and Jo Shapcott – and have your work published in the Poetry Society’s leading international journal, Poetry Review. The judges this year are poets George Szirtes, Deryn Rees-Jones and Sinéad Morrissey. The prizes are: £5,000 for the overall winner, £2,000 for the second, £1,000 for the third and seven commendations of £100. The deadline is 31 October. Enter online or download an entry form at www.poetrysociety.org.uk

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