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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Arvon 42 Grant

The Arvon 42 scheme will enable 42 writers to attend an Arvon Foundation writing course for free (the standard fee is £595). Arvon 42 is a grant scheme intended to enable writers who cannot afford to make any contribution towards the fees to attend an Arvon course.

Arvon 42 grants will be awarded to writers living in England and Wales who have never been on an Arvon course before. The grants will cover the full cost of a course, including food, accommodation and tuition. Travel costs are not included and must be paid by the grant recipients.

Writers who are awarded a grant will be able to choose to attend any Arvon course until December 2011. To apply, go to: http://arvonfoundation.org/p243.html. DEADLINE: Friday 25th June.

ALT. FICTION BURSARIES FOR NORTHANTS RESIDENTS

Literature Northants is pleased to be able to offer three bursaries for the Alt.Fiction festival of alternative fiction in Derby on Saturday 12th June.

ABOUT THE BURSARIES
Literature Northants will offer bursaries to three successful applicants to cover the price of their ticket (worth £25) plus travel expenses up to the value of £50. See below for details of how to apply.

ABOUT ALT. FICTION
Alt.Fiction, Derby’s international festival for alternative fiction, has been running successfully since 2006 as a one-day event focusing on the genres of science-fiction, fantasy and horror and featuring some of the top authors in the field such as Ramsey Campbell, Iain M Banks, Mike Carey and Harry Harrison. The fourth Alt.Fiction will take place in QUAD; Derby’s state-of-the-art multi-media venue.

The day is made up of a number of different types of sessions, each of which offers something different to the next. These include:

• Readings from authors
• Q&A sessions in which there will be the opportunity to pose questions to panels of authors and publishers. There will also be discussion panels in which a panel debate a particular topic such as ‘What is Alt.Fiction?’
• Workshop sessions. Workshops present the opportunity to get new ideas for writing, or advice about writing and publishing, from established figures in the field.

This year BBC books – publishers of tie-in-novels from the ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Torchwood’ and ‘Being Human’ series – have already confirmed their attendance at Alt. Fiction 2010 along with Rob Shearman, Justin Richards, Mark Morris, Sarah Pinborough, Guy Adams to name but a few.

For full details see http://altfiction.co.uk/.

HOW TO APPLY
To apply, send your CV, three short examples of your work (links to online work preferable) and a covering letter explaining why you should be awarded the bursary to Kate Wilkinson, Literature Development Officer: kwilkinson@northamptonshire.gov.uk.

*** PLEASE NOTE: only applications made by email will be accepted. Applications not containing the required information outlined above will be disregarded. ***

DEADLINE
Your application should be emailed to kwilkinson@northamptonshire.gov.uk by 12 noon on Monday 3rd May 2010. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of the day on Monday 11th May. Unfortunately, we will not be able to notify unsuccessful applicants.

The Authors Foundation

The Authors’ Foundation gives grants to authors whose project is for a British publisher. Grants can be to help with research costs, or to buy time to write.

Please note, the Authors’ Foundation does not cover self-published authors as grants cannot be awarded to help towards the costs of publication.

the link is: http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards/grants/

US-UK Fullbright Commission

US-UK Fulbright Commission is offering its annual £20,000 grant to a UK citizen from an under-represented background to pursue a Master’s degree in film directing, screenplay, production, cinematography, scoring/composition or film business at any accredited US institution.

More details can be found at http://www.fulbright.co.uk/

The K Blundell Trust

The K Blundell Trust gives grants to British authors under the age of 40 whose project is for a British publisher. The project must aim to increase social awareness, and can be fiction or non-fiction.

Please see this link for full application details:

http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes-grants-and-awards/grants/