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Under Milk Wood to be performed
I can definitely recommend this performance of my favourite piece of writing if you are in Darlington, Northern England (it’s part of the Darlington Arts Festival co-ordinated by Darlington for Culture (www.darlingtonforculture.org)
Sunday May 18 and Monday May 19 Darlington Green Theatre presents a Reading of Under…
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A Night with the Inkerman Writers
Thursday May 22 7pm Voodoo Café, Skinnergate. A Night with the Inkerman Writers. Readings of poetry and prose, part of Darlington Arts Festival.
Free entry. More information from…
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Children's fiction masterclass May 24
Saturday May 24 Children’s Writing Masterclass (part of the Darlington Arts Festival)
John Dean presents a day-long workshop at the Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate. Time…
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Literature at the Festival
There’s lots of literary event the Darlington Arts Festival, including a Night with the Inkerman Writers. The full programme is at http://www.darlingtonforculture.org but here's something to whet your appetite.
Thursday 1st May, 7pm: Café Create, 95…
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Next open mic
The next Open Mic night for authors on Thursday May 29.
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, 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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Are you the next big thing in crime fiction?
Moth Publishing is looking for the next big thing in crime fiction
Northern Crime is a unique competition that aims to unearth and publish exciting new crime writing from writers who live and work in the north of England.
It is a collaboration between the writing development agency New Writing North and publisher BEPL, who have come together to create the Moth imprint.
Last year, Moth published the four winning books from the inaugural Northern Crime competition: Rebecca…
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Inkermans to perform at Festival
The Inkerman Writers will be performing at the Darlington Arts Festival in May.
The details are:
Thursday May 22 7pm Voodoo Café, Skinnergate. A Night with the Inkerman Writers. Poetry and prose. Free entry.
More information from deangriss@btinternet.com…
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Festival events
I am delivering two master classes and a weekend residential creative writing course as part of the Darlington Arts Festival, which takes place in Darlington, County Durham, UK.
They are:
Saturday May 3 Crime Writing Masterclass,
Crime novelist John Dean presents a day-long workshop at the Friends’ Meeting House, Skinnergate. Time 10am-4pm
Want to create the perfect villain? Being driven to murder? Then this masterclass from the creator of the John Blizzard and…
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Another Inkerman writer goes into print
Author Mike Watson, from Darlington in County Durham, has had his first book published.
Earthstrider, a lyrical tale of magic for young children, has been produced by Thynks Publications.
Mike, a retired teacher, is a prize-winning short story writer and has had work published in magazines and anthologies but Earthstrider is his first book.
Mike said: “I am delighted that it has been published. Consulting with an illustrator and an editor about layout and covers has been…
ContinueA couple of opportunities
Here’s a couple of opportunities for writers.
Stand & Deliver is a new magazine for alternative comedy, based in Newcastle upon Tyne and founded by a graduate of Northumbria University. The magazine, which celebrates the subject of comedy, is looking for like-minded writers to contribute who have an interest and passion for the subject. Stand & Deliver, which will contain a mix of articles, features, storytelling, poetry, photography, illustration and design, will focus on…
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Northern Writers’ Awards
New Writing North has announced that the Northern Writers’ Awards are now open for submissions.
The Awards were established in 2000 as a pioneering programme that aimed to support both new and established writers in the pursuit of their creative ambitions. Since then, they have supported more than 150 writers, many of whom have gone on to achieve publication of their work in the UK and internationally.
Originally open only to writers in the North East, the awards,…
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Writers keep it in the family
Novelists Claire Moss and Bud Craig will remember November 2013 for a very long time. It’s unusual enough for a father and daughter to have novels published; even more so when it’s in the same month.
“I’m sure this has never happened before,” says Bud.
Married with two children, Claire Moss lives in Thirsk. She was brought up and went to school in the village of Hurworth near Darlington, where her parents still live.
Bud’s crime thriller, Tackling Death, was…
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Tackling Death
Author Bud Craig, a member of Darlington-based Inkerman Writers, has had his first book published by No So Noble Books.
Tackling Death, available as an ebook, is about Salford-based ex-rugby league player turned social worker Gus Keane, who is closing up his case files in preparation for retirement, but a bruising encounter with a client sets off a chain of events in which he finds his boss murdered. Now turning private eye to uncover the truth, as more murders occur Keane himself…
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A message from Bud Craig about the upcoming publication of his novel
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Open mic nights continue new season
The Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, will continue their 2013/14 season on Thursday November 28.
The nights, which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door.
John Dean, of Darlington business Inscribe Media, which runs the sessions, said: “The open mic…
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Inkerman writers go into print
Two authors from the North East of England have gone into print with ebooks, the sixth and seventh published through the Inscribe Media imprint.
The thriller Lost Souls is Roger Barnes’ second ebook, following White Gold, and crime novel Harry’s Torment is Michael Beck’s first. Both authors are from Darlington, County Durham.
Book details:
Lost Souls by Roger Barnes
When young women start to go missing in Africa, the kidnappers warn not to investigate but the…
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Success for Pam
Inkerman Writer Pam Plumb has had one of her stories featured on the Reader’s Digest website after she entered the magazine’s latest competition. You can read it at…
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Inkerman Writers’ anthology on sale
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows, which was launched as part of the 2013 Darlington Arts Festival, is on sale.
The Inkerman Writers, for whom 2013 marks the tenth anniversary, attend creative writing evening classes at the Friends’ Meeting House in Skinnergate, Darlington. The groups were asked to imagine walking…
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Open mic nights finish season
The Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, concluded their 2012/13 season on Thursday June 27.
The nights, which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, run at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, on the last Thursday of the month. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry is £3 paid on the door. They will resume on September 26.
More information is available …
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Inkerman Writers anthology on sale
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows, is on sale
The Inkerman Writers, for whom 2013 marks the tenth anniversary, attend creative writing evening classes at the Friends’ Meeting House in Skinnergate, Darlington. The groups were asked to imagine walking through a darkened house. …
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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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