Featured Writer - John Siddique
John Siddique’s poetry has at its heart the themes of communication, storytelling and what it means to be human at this point in time. He is a British poet who subtly draws on his Irish and Indian heritage to straddle the complications of today’s society. His writing...
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Arvon Grants for Writers
Grants are available for Arvon’s 2012 programme of residential creative writing courses.
Arvon, internationally renowned for its residential creative writing courses, has launched its...
Manchester Children's Book Festival programme
The Manchester Children's Book Festival programme has been announced.
The festival - a biennial celebration of reading - will be eleven days of fun, events and activities to inspire...
Call for Submissions for 'Unique Driven Determined' Charity poetry anthology
The “Unique Driven Determined” anthology will consist of poetry about human differences and qualities, disabilities and impairments and how people deal with these challenges.
For more...
Shadowtrain 38
March-April, 2012
Rupert M Loydell only just catches the train back home; Nikolai Duffy clears recesses with prayer; Marion McCready has a song of her own; Claire Crowther works to the...
Apprenticeships in Fiction 2012
A one-year professional development programme for first-time novelists. Deadline: 31st May 2012
Adventures in Fiction is proud to present five subsidized placements for first-time...
Mslexia 2012 Women's Short Story Competition
JUDGE: Tessa Hadley
1st Prize: £2,000 plus a week's writing retreat at Chawton House Library* and a day with a Virago editor**
2nd Prize: £500,
3rd Prize:...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – COMMONWORD CHILDREN’S DIVERSITY WRITING PRIZE 2012
The Commonword Children’s Diversity Writing Prize welcomes submissions from unpublished children’s authors whose writing embraces ethnic diversity either through their own ethnicity and culture...
FULL STORYBlack & BLUE seeks submissions
Black & BLUE is a new paper whose first issue will be published in September. We are looking for Poetry, Drama, Prose but also pieces of writing that don't really have a genre.
We are...
New issue of Shadowtrain out now
November-December, 2011
Shadowtrain 37
Andy Brown climbs through the face of a postcard; Jeremy Over lies under the trees in a giant spoon; James Davey counts scars and runs...
Re:Tale - a unique literary event in Manchester
Re:Tale is a unique literature event taking place on the 17th November 2011. In the labyrinthine setting of Jigsaw in the Triangle, six writers will perform six brand new stories.
On the 17th...
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