Featured Writer - Mike Duff
Mike Duff was born and raised in some of Manchester’s less salubrious neighbourhoods. He is: the winner of the Poem for Manchester competition in 2004; a die-hard Man-United supporter; a writer of short stories, poems and...
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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2010
If you are 11-17 years of age, the Poetry Society’s Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award opens up exciting opportunities for your writing to be recognized and given the chance to flourish. Comma Film, in association with Manchester's Version Festival, are now calling for participants in this year's POEM-FILM CHALLENGE. This challenge has previously run for several years, but only for... July-August, 2010 First prize: £10,000* Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy will judge a new international poetry competition celebrating the life of master lyricist and published poet John Lennon. Are you afraid of dark spaces? Is there a clear boundary between pet and pest? Do animals encroach on our spaces, or is it we who encroach on theirs? Could we ever celebrate a sense of shared space... Creative Tourist and Rainy City Stories have teamed up to launch a new short story competition, Rain Never Stops Play. For two weeks from 3rd – 17th July Manchester will be taking part in BookFest, Oxfam’s very own literature festival. Literary prize-winners and big-hitters will be taking part in... The line-up for the ever-popular Manchester Book Market has been announced. Flax, the publishing imprint of Lancaster's Litfest, is accepting striking new poetry for its 022 anthology throughout June 2010. Calling all Film Makers and Animators!
Shadowtrain 34 - out now.
POETRY:
Noel Williams runs for anywhere the fire is not; Libby Hart touches the bulk of ache; Mohsen Jabbari watches shapeless feathers falling; Claire Crowther is...The Manchester Poetry Prize 2010
Deadline for entries: 6th August 2010
Entry fee: £15
Judges: Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw and Daljit...John Lennon Poetry Competition to be judged by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
The final stages of an international hunt...Writing from Art: Uncertainty in the City with Ian Seed
Rainy City Short Story Competition
We’re looking for great tales...Poet Laureate Carol-Ann Duffy helps Oxfam bring out Manchester’s literary side
Manchester Book Market Line-up Announced!
The market will be open on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June, 10am-5pm, St Ann’s Square, Manchester.Call for Poetry Submissions from NW Writers
If you want your writing to be included in a beautifully...
Events
- Creative Writing Workshop - Historical Fiction
- Wythenshawe Forum Library (Manchester)
- 1:00pm
- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP PAPER PLANES: SECOND SATURDAYS
- Fuel Cafe Bar (Manchester)
- 12:00pm
- Writing Poetry for Performance course
- Friend's Meeting House (Manchester)
- 7:00pm
- The Varieties of Voice - poetry workshop
- Bluecoat Arts Centre (Liverpool)
- 10:00pm
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