April 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Anthology selling well

Inkerman Writers' first anthology is selling well.
Featuring work by 26 of our writers, A Strawberry in Winter can be bought by going to www.blurb.com and keying the name of the book into the search box at the top.

Added by John Dean on April 29, 2010 at 9:56am — No Comments

Guess who got the sack from work experience?



Nursing wasn't my first choice for a career. Initially, I wanted to be a nun (not sure why), but then changed my mind when mum told me that I wouldn't be able to live at home. I wanted to play hockey for England, but when I got no further than the trials to play for Yorkshire, I was devastated and thought my life was at an end. After I got over that, I decided that I wanted to join the police force (at the time, I saw myself as Emma Peel meets Dixon of Dock Green), but alas, I didn't…

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Added by Kath Radford on April 22, 2010 at 8:01pm — No Comments

Inkerman Writer has crime novel published



Inkerman writer Richard Nicholson has had his first crime novel published as part of the Internet revolution that is sweeping the publishing industry.

The Poisoned Well, set in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire National Park, is being sold as a downloadable e-book on the fiction4all.com website. Visitors to the site are able to download the book for…

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Added by John Dean on April 15, 2010 at 4:35pm — No Comments

Writers’ group goes into print



Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have launched their first anthology.

The group, who attend writing classes at Darlington Arts Centre, have produced A Strawberry in Winter, a collection of short stories on a range of subjects, featuring work by 26 writers.

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Added by John Dean on April 15, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Lifetime's experience inspires first published crime novel



Darlington author Kath Radford has had her first crime novel published.

Beyond Belief, a crime story in which a killer strikes in a busy general hospital, is published by Legend Press.

Born and raised in Yorkshire, Kath Radford initially trained as a nurse in Darlington before joining the Armed…

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Added by John Dean on April 15, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

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DfC

The Inkerman Writers are members of Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up  in 2010 to help save Darlington Arts Centre from closure.

Its members include representatives of arts and community groups.

DfC was established after the centre’s owner, Darlington Borough Council, announced that budget cuts meant that it would have to withdraw its subsidy from the Arts Centre.

Although the centre closed, the organisation remains active - more at www.darlingtonforculture.org

 

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Welcome to the site created by the Inkerman Writers to showcase our work.

Based in Darlington, North East England, and having celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2013, members have enjoyed success in a variety of arenas, including winning, and being shortlisted and highly commended, in short story competitions, having novels published and publishing the short story anthology A Strawberry in Winter, which can be obtained by visiting the website www.blurb.com

The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, from

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/2173759/4a79a32f5cf205f6bfd37b6f1df30e33900a5ab0?utm_source=TellAFriend&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2692827

The Inkerman Writers latest book, Out of the Shadows, which was launched as part of the 2013 Darlington Arts Festival, is on sale. The book can be ordered direct from

http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4204019-out-of-the-shadows

The group also produced The Last Waltz, a double CD of short stories, available by contacting deangriss@btinternet.com, cost £5 plus p and p.

Several of our writers wrote original one-act plays in a collaboration with the Green Theatre company, which were performed at Darlington Arts Centre early in February, 2012.

 

Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have produced their latest anthology of short stories, Inkerman  Street, based on the demolition of a fictional northern street and the stories of the people who lived in it.

The book, which features a variety of stories ranging from horror to comedy, was launched to a large audience at the Darlington Arts Festival Literary Day on Saturday May 26 and begins like this:

Inkerman Street is still and graveyard-hushed tonight, the terraced houses cold behind boarded-up windows, silent sentinels among a sea of wasteland. No one lives here now and tomorrow the bulldozers will move in to flatten the houses to make way for the Council’s Grand Plan.

“Although the people are long gone, the houses still have life. Peek into one of the bedrooms and see on the wall a painting of a seaside scene, brightly-coloured boats bobbing in the harbour, fishermen pipe-smoking in the noonday sun and seagulls wheeling high above the choppy waters. In the roaring silence of the night, you can hear the screeching of the birds and taste the salt air, acrid and herring-sharp at the back of your throat. It is an illusion; the bedroom is empty and the blooms on the faded wallpaper have long since wilted.

“The air in the houses is musty with neglect yet but a few months before, these were bustling homes filled with frying bacon and steaming irons, whistling kettles and playing children. The houses witnessed all these scenes for more than 150 years. Behind their curtains were enacted a thousand stories but tomorrow they will be destroyed because Inkerman Street is the last of its ilk.

“Now, on the eve of the street’s death, the people who once lived here have returned, gathering solemn and silent in the mist, the ghosts of the past come to pay final tribute….”

The anthology can be purchased at http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/7524452/bae89c993c98ec8c8b37b12d6b9b37ecced5dec3

 

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