Featured Writer - Jean Sprackland

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Jean Sprackland is the author of two books of poetry and a collection of short stories. Her book Hard Water was shortlisted for both the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award 2004.
Jean was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1962, and now lives in Southport. Her third...FULL PROFILE

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Texting Obama - an interdisciplinary conference

Texting Obama is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (IHSSR) at Manchester Metropolitan University and The Manchester Writing...

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100 STORIES FOR HAITI

To help the relief effort in Haiti, The Red Telephone's parent company, Bridge House, will publish an anthology of short stories on March 4th 2010.
Over 100 authors and editors helped put this...

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Manchester author and illustrator Oliver East's new book available online.

Oliver East is the artist who did the artwork for Elbow's lastest album.
Ollie writes and illustrates a series of books called Trains Are Mint, which...

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Call for New Fiction from North West England

Flax, the publishing imprint of Lancaster's Literature festival, is looking for unputdownable new fiction for its next digital anthology.
For what, how and when to submit please read the...

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Introduction to Scriptwriting for Screen

Primary Creations have been running very success scriptwriting for screen courses for the past 4 years. Previous participants have said the course 'has given me confidence in my writing', 'I've...

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Writers' Lab @ Bolton

The University of Bolton is developing a writer’s programme in association with a number of production companies in the North West (AbbottVision, Red Productions, Lime Pictures, BBC...

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Writers' Lab @ Bolton

The University of Bolton is developing a writer’s programme in association with a number of production companies in the North West (AbbottVision, Red Productions, Lime Pictures, BBC...

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Writing workshop - Writing from Art, with Elizabeth Burns

Lifest is offering a writing workshop using The Storey Gallery's spring group exhibition Testing Testing stimulus. In the sessions you will explore what the artworks mean to you and where they...

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Version Poem Film Audience Award Winners

If You Were, directed by Tamzin Forster and based on the poem by Julian...

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Final issue of Ballista out now

Ballista 7 presents deliciously fresh and inventive tales of speculative...

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