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Open mic night to take place
The Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, continue on Thursday May 30.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.
More information is available at…
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Writing competition launched as part of festival
Cafe Create in Darlington has launched a short story writing competition for all ages, sponsored by the Richmond-based Mad Hatter Tea Company as part of Darlington’s forthcoming Arts Festival.
The theme for the competition, part of the Literary element of the month-long arts festival in May, is The Riddle, inspired by the riddle ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ from Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, who lived in Croft near Darlington.
The maximum word…
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Masterclasses
John Dean is running crime writing and children’s fiction masterclasses at Darlington Arts Festival in May. More at…
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Summer term creative writing dates announced
Creative writing tutor John Dean has announced the summer term dates for his popular courses at the Friends’ Meeting House in Skinnergate, Darlington.
The adult learning courses 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, theatre and radio.
Each course is…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on February 22, 2013 at 9:47am — 1 Comment
Open mic night to take place
The Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, continue on Thursday (March 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.
More information is available at…
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Inkerman Writers to launch anthology
The Inkerman Writers are playing their part in the Darlington Arts Festival:
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows charts an idea. The Inkerman Writers, for whom 2013 marks the tenth anniversary, attend creative writing evening classes at the Friends’ Meeting House in Skinnergate,…
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Site change
Inscribe Media is now running the Global Short Story Competition from its website at
www.inscribemedia.co.uk. Cash prizes every month. Follow us on Facebook (search Inscribe Media) or Twitter…
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Sandra's play hits the stage again
Sweet FA by Darlington-based Inkerman Writers member Sandra Spears has been selected for performance by Darlington’s Green Theatre for the preliminary rounds of the All England Theatre Festival one act play competition. The play, a comedy-who-done it is about the power struggles in the tanning salon business – a Dallas meets Darlington.
Sandra, a member of Inkerman Writers for the last three years, said: “ I am delighted my play has been chosen by Green Theatre and thanks must go to…
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Open Mic nights 2013 resume
The Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, resume on Thursday January 31. he 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. More information is available at…
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Places still available on course
Creative writing tutor John Dean still has places for the Tuesday night of the Spring term for 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, theatre and radio.
Each course is different and deals…
Added by John Dean on January 2, 2013 at 10:00am — No Comments
Tenth anniversary
Inkerman Writers celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2013. We'll be announcing details of our new book in the next few weeks
Added by John Dean on January 2, 2013 at 9:59am — No Comments
Honour for Millie
The Inkerman Writers salute member Millie Scaife, who was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List for services to Sadberge village. Well done, Millie.
Added by John Dean on December 31, 2012 at 9:17am — No Comments
Good review for To Honour the Dead
Click the link here to find a review of To Honour the Dead by John Dean (Hale), which came out on November 30
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/book_reviews_view.aspx?BOOK_REVIEW_ID=668
Added by John Dean on December 11, 2012 at 7:05pm — No Comments
Open mic nights 2013 programme announced
Organisers of the monthly Open Mic nights for authors, which are supported by Darlington for Culture, have announced that they will continue into 2013.
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.
The final event of 2012 was staged on Thursday November 29 and now the organisers have confirmed that the events will run in…
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Another Inkerman Writer goes into print
Another of the Inkerman Writers has gone into print. You can find out more about the ebook Hide and Seek by P S Brown (and read the opening chapters free) through Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A9HAQJY
Added by John Dean on November 27, 2012 at 8:28am — No Comments
Tom goes into print
Worth checking out this to find out about a book written by Inkerman Writer Tom Benson. Click here to out the free online sample of "Ten Days" on Smashwords and select either "Javascript Reader" or "HTML Reader" to view the sample.
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Ten Days's…
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Spring term evening class dates announced
Creative writing tutor John Dean has announced the Spring term 2013 dates for 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, theatre and radio.
Each course is different and deals with…
ContinueAdded by John Dean on November 5, 2012 at 2:12pm — No Comments
November open mic night
The Open Mic Nights for authors, which are held monthly, offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy everything from prose and poetry to theatre and film scripts. They are held at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate, Darlington (01325 467555). The next Autumn Open Mic night takes place on:
• Thursday November 29, open theme.
Each session will start at 7pm and the cost of entry will be £3 paid on the door. More information…
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A work in progress
Inkerman Writers are working on our latest, and most ambitious, project, an anthology linked by the thoughts inspired by a single image. We hope to launch the short story anthology during the Darlington Arts Festival in May 2013.
Added by John Dean on October 23, 2012 at 8:24am — No Comments
Open mic nights are back
Darlington for Culture’s monthly Open Mic nights, which offer a forum for writers to read their material and audiences to enjoy it, have restarted at Voodoo Café/Cantina, 84 Skinnergate. The next night is Thursday October 25 with an open theme. Each session starts at 7pm and the cost of entry will be £3 paid on the door. More information is available in Upcoming Events in the programme section at …
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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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