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Darlington for Culture links up wiih Inkerman Writers to support Refuge
Darlington for Culture (DfC) is supporting a night of gospel music and poetry to raise funds for Darlington Women’s Refuge.
Family Help, backed by DfC, will present the event in The Theatre at Darlington Arts Centre, Vane Terrace, Darlington, at 8pm on May 22. Tickets: £5 (£2.50 conc.) Tickets from 01325 364486 (office hours) or on the door.
Music will be provided by L. E.C Gospel Choir and poetry readings given by members of the Darlington-based Inkerman…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on May 14, 2012 at 4:21pm — No Comments
John Dean announces course details for 2012/13
Got a story to tell? Keen to be a writer? Then this could be your big chance
Creative writing tutor John Dean has announced that he will be running his popular courses at the Friends’ Meeting House in Skinnergate, Darlington. The adult learning courses, previously staged at Darlington Arts Centre, deal with all aspects of creative writing, focusing primarily on prose, including short stories, novels and other forms of writing as well as occasional forays into the world of stage,…
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Latest authors’ open mic night to be held
Darlington for Culture will stage the next in its series of open mic nights for authors and audiences at Darlington Arts Centre on Monday April 30. The events form part of the programme run at the centre by DfC, which is a Community Benefit Society, a type of co-operative. Six open…
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Say hello to Christophe's Farewell
The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, available from http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/2173759/4a79a32f5cf205f6bfd37b6f1df30e33900a5ab0?
Added by John Dean on April 23, 2012 at 4:44pm — No Comments
Roger goes into print
Certys, the company from North East England which runs the successful Global Short Story Competition, has entered the world of e-books on Amazon with the publication of four titles for Kindle, one of which has been penned by Inkerman Writer Roger Barnes. White Gold, a thriller by first-time author Roger, takes the reader into a world of intrigue and danger set amid the poachers of Africa and those trying to thwart their criminals efforts.…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on March 22, 2012 at 12:17pm — No Comments
A success story
What a success Branching Out was on Monday and Tuesday this week. Performed by Green Theatre and featuring original one-act plays by Inkerman Writers Pat Stewart, Sandra Spears and Bud Craig, Branching Out played to large and appreciative audiences at Darlington Arts Centre. The perfect example of what Darlington for Culture sets out to do, bringing together different groups and art forms in exciting new projects. Well done to all involved.
Added by John Dean on February 29, 2012 at 10:12am — No Comments
One final push to save the Arts Centre
Dear Darlington for Culture supporter
You may well have heard the sad news that the Cabinet has now agreed to close our Arts Centre in July. The final decision will be made by all of Darlington's councillors in a…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on February 23, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments
Inkerman Writers launch new book
Thursday 23rd February 7pm at Cockerton library
An evening of poetry & prose
The Inkerman Writers' are launching their new book entitled 'Christophe's Farewell & other stories' .…
Added by John Dean on February 17, 2012 at 10:37am — No Comments
Good news - now give us some more
The Inkerman Writers are delighted that Cockerton Library has been given a stay of execution. We will be showing our solidarity by staging the launch of our new anthology at the library on the evening of February 23. Now all we need is some similarly enlightened thinking from the council on the arts centre and things will be looking much more optimistic.
Added by John Dean on February 10, 2012 at 4:43pm — No Comments
About time Roger
Congratulations Roger...... glad to see your work in print at last. Good luck with it... xx
Added by Kath Radford on February 4, 2012 at 12:01pm — No Comments
Tickets on sale for Darlington stage premiere
Tickets are on sale for a world premiere in Darlington. The Darlington Green Theatre company has teamed up with three local writers to produce a night of specially-created one-act plays under the title Branching Out.
The authors, all members of Darlington-based Inkerman Writers, had their plays selected for performance at Darlington Arts Centre as part of Darlington for Culture’s Winter programme. The performances will be on Monday and Tuesday, February 27th & 28th at…
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Roger goes into print
Darlington author Roger Barnes, part of Inkerman Writers, has had his first book published. Certys, the company from North East England which runs the successful Global Short Story Competition, has entered the world of e-books on Amazon with the publication of four titles for Kindle, one of which is White Gold by Roger. A thriller by the first-time author, it takes the reader into a world of intrigue and danger set amid…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on February 1, 2012 at 9:19am — No Comments
New Writing North
The annual Northern Writers Awards have been announced. See newwritingnorth.com .
Added by Neil Campling on January 23, 2012 at 12:38pm — No Comments
Anthology to be launched
We are launching our latest anthology, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, at Cockerton Library, in Darlington, which is threatened with closure due to cutbacks. It's our way of saying value this precious place. The event is on Thursday Feb 23 at 7pm.
Added by John Dean on January 22, 2012 at 12:53pm — No Comments
Christophe's Farewell available to buy
The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, available from http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/2173759/4a79a32f5cf205f6bfd37b6f1df30e33900a5ab0?
Added by John Dean on December 30, 2011 at 2:44pm — No Comments
Inkermans take to the stage
The Darlington Green Theatre company has teamed up with three local writers to produce a night of specially-created one-act plays. The authors, all members of Darlington-based Inkerman Writers, had their plays selected for performance at Darlington Arts Centre as part of Darlington for Culture’s Winter programme. The performances will be on Monday and Tuesday, February 27th & 28th at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £5.00 and £4.00 for concessions and can be obtained by calling 01325…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on December 20, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments
Successful open mic nights to continue
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which is campaigning to save Darlington Arts Centre, has announced that its successful open mic nights for authors will continue into 2012. The event form part of the programme run at the centre by DfC, which is a Community Benefit Society, a type of co-operative.
Three open mic nights have already been held this year and now DfC says that they will continue on the last Mondays of each month in early 2012 - January 30, February 27 and March 26.
Open mic…
Added by John Dean on November 30, 2011 at 9:42am — No Comments
Writing from History courses
Creative Writing & Research Workshops: Writing from History
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Added by John Dean on November 28, 2011 at 1:06pm — No Comments
NaNoWriMo - HAWK has arrived ...
After much deliberation I've taken the plunge, registered for the National Novel Writing Month challenge and got on with the writing. My intention is to update the tale on my personal blog as I finish each chapter. The idea is to complete the rough draft in 30 days so 'rough draft' it will be. Chapter One is posted.
Blog: http://tomfoollery.wordpress.com
'HAWK' - synopsis:
Phil McKenzie is an SAS soldier who disenchanted…
ContinueAdded by Tom Benson on November 2, 2011 at 5:12pm — No Comments
A Soldier's Letter Home
This appeared in A Strawberry in Winter. At the moment I am wrestling with the task of converting it into a stage script. It's not any easy task but I'm 'soldiering' on to see how it turns out. You never know until you try
Added by Ross Chisholm on October 11, 2011 at 4:18pm — 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
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
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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