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Inkerman Writers in print

Inscribe Media has published a number of ebooks, including by Inkerman Writers Mike Beck, a crime writer, and thriller writer Roger Barnes. You can find out more about how to buy them as well as the writers'

thoughts on the writing process at www.inscribemedia.co.uk…

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Added by John Dean on October 12, 2016 at 10:00am — No Comments

Inkerman - where does the name comes from?

Inkerman, formerly Kalamita, is a cave town in the Eastern part of Crimea.  Inkerman is Turkish for a cave town.  The town started life as a cave monastery in the 8th century, later to be taken over by the Greeks as a fortress, then taken back by the Turks in the 15th century who named it Inkerman.  It received world wide attention in the Crimean war (1854) with the battle of Inkerman.  In more recent times the Soviets used it as an underground ammunitions store.  They abandoned it after a…

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Added by Alwyn Foden on October 2, 2016 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Bud's trilogy is published

The first three crime novels by writer Bud Craig, from the Darlington area, have been brought together and published as an e-trilogy. Salford Murders features three gripping private eye detective stories set in the industrial North. With the atmosphere of urban decline and inner-city violence, these three murder mysteries are set in the metropolitan area of Salford, Manchester - one of the most deprived areas in…

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Added by John Dean on October 2, 2016 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Give Them Wings is published

Darlington authors Paul Hodgson and Inkerman Writer Mike Jarvie have brought out their new e-book  Give Them Wings.

Disabled as a result of childhood meningitis, Paul has written this hard-hitting autobiography…

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Added by John Dean on September 22, 2016 at 9:00am — No Comments

Festival masterclasses announced

John Dean has announced that he will run two masterclasses during the 2017 Darlington Arts Festival:

Saturday May 6

A Touch of Villainy–   Crime Fiction Masterclass

Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate, Darlington 10am-4pm

Run by crime novelist John Dean, the creator of the DCI John Blizzard and DCI Jack Harris series of books, this masterclass…

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Added by John Dean on September 20, 2016 at 3:54pm — No Comments

Fred makes it into film

A year or so ago, the Inkerman Writers linked up with Darlington Videomakers Club. Club members read a number of stories/scripts by the writers and chose one by Fred Johnson. The result is Family Matters, which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0NRhK7nVo

Added by John Dean on August 21, 2016 at 9:23am — No Comments

Beyond the first story ...

I recently amended the title of my top-selling book, Beyond The Law.

Following queries by several readers about a sequel, I wrote Beyond The Law: Retribution, which has been selling steadily. I left the second part of the story open, so I've been working on the third in the series.

I…

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Added by Tom Benson on March 5, 2016 at 4:34pm — No Comments

A Taste of Honey ... for free

Hello fellow members of the Inkerman Writers. It's great to see more titles emerging from our talented authors, so in tune with new ideas, my new sales strategy for 2016 is to give away a title every month.

Instead of heading to Amazon via various clicks and searches I'm using the new 'preview before…

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Added by Tom Benson on January 23, 2016 at 10:00am — No Comments

Bud's third crime novel is published

The third crime novel by Darlington-based Bud Craig, Falling Foul, has been published as a e-book by The Book Folks.

With his…

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Added by John Dean on December 12, 2015 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Success for Pam

Twenty writers from the North of England, including Pam Plumb from Darlington, have been  announced as winners of the Northern Crime Competition.

Leeds-based writer Kathleen McKay has won £1000 and the publication of her contemporary crime novel, Hard Wired, by Moth Publishing in summer 2016.

A further 19 northern writers have won the Northern Crime…

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Added by John Dean on December 10, 2015 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Author's third thriller is published

The latest thriller by North East England author Roger Barnes has been published. Snow Birds, published as an ebook through Inscribe Media, is the third novel by the Darlington taxi driver following on from White Gold and Lost Souls.

After a number of high profile drug related deaths from pure cocaine supplied through London clubs to their patrons from the Financial…

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Added by John Dean on October 8, 2015 at 2:59pm — No Comments

And now ... for something completely different ...

A couple of years ago I tried writing erotica and failed miserably, mainly because I tried to stick to the rules. Which rules? Oh nothing much, just a load of tosh about decency, subtlety, and avoiding going too far with imagery. I read some of the modern erotica and found that a lot of authors are writing about something they know little or nothing about.

Inspired by the handful of books I downloaded, and the successful, though nonetheless rubbish '50 Shades ...' I…

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Added by Tom Benson on September 9, 2015 at 9:00am — No Comments

Pam's new book is published

The new book by Inkerman Writer Pam Plumb, ‘Akos Novus’, is now available from Amazon (at …

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Added by John Dean on August 19, 2015 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Writers talk writing

You can read the thoughts on their work of Darlington novelists, and Inkerman Writers, Mike Beck and Roger Barnes on a special feature at at…

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Added by John Dean on August 7, 2015 at 11:19am — No Comments

Opportunity for children's writers and illustrators

This opportunity may interest the children’s writers among you, more on the page link here…

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Added by John Dean on August 7, 2015 at 11:17am — No Comments

Earthstrider - a real treat for young readers

Earthstrider by Mike Watson is a lyrical story for children about a magical stranger who makes a river flow again.

Earthstrider can be obtained on Amazon or directly from Thynks Publication Limited…

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Added by John Dean on June 4, 2015 at 9:08am — No Comments

Open mic night to be held

The Open Mic night for authors season continues on Thursday June 25, the last before the summer break.

The nights, supported by Darlington for Culture and which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, Darlington, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door.

More information is available from Inscribe Media Limited at…

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Added by John Dean on February 27, 2015 at 8:00am — No Comments

A Life of Crime

Advance notice of a Darlington Arts Festival event featuring three Inkerman Writers

Saturday May 23

2.30--4pm

A Life of Crime

Darlington Art Gallery, Crown Street Library, Darlington

Darlington-based crime writers Bud Craig, whose recently published second novel is Dead Certainty, Mike Beck, author of Harrys Torment, and John Dean, whose latest novel is A Breach of Trust, talk about…

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Added by John Dean on January 12, 2015 at 11:35am — No Comments

A Breach of Trust to be published

John Dean’s latest novel, A Breach of Trust (Hale), is out on January 30 2015. A crooked businessman suffers a fall at home and there is no reason to think it is anything other than an accident until after he dies when information comes to hand which points towards murder.

Detective Chief Inspector Blizzard and his team are brought in to investigate and attention…

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Added by John Dean on January 12, 2015 at 11:30am — No Comments

Open mic night

The Open Mic night for authors season continues on February 26.

The nights, supported by Darlington for Culture and which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, Darlington, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door.

More information is available from…

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Added by John Dean on January 12, 2015 at 11:30am — No Comments

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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

 

Publications

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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