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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
The writing of The Secrets Man
Added by John Dean on October 10, 2011 at 1:06pm — No Comments
Reviving a 'dying' art
Added by John Dean on October 10, 2011 at 12:43pm — No Comments
Open mic nights announced
Darlington for Culture has…
Added by John Dean on August 29, 2011 at 10:27am — No Comments
Haghir rides again
He's back! It's ages since I read anything featuring my children's book creation Haghir the Dragon Finder (published 1994) but if I can find a slot during Darlington for Culture's books and writing day at the Arts Centre on Aug 30, I'll give him an airing. Currently talking to the Inkerman Writers about doing some readings throughout the day and we fancy slotting in some children's pieces. Looking forward to it - as is Haghir. He does love being centre…
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Talking Book to be launched
Darlington writing group the Inkerman Writers has chosen the forthcoming Summer Fling at Darlington Arts Centre to launch its new talking book. The Last Waltz features stories written by members of the Inkerman Writers, whose authors are, or have been, creative writing students at Darlington Arts Centre, County Durham. The talking book was made possible following a successful…
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Meet the publisher
During the event on Aug 30, Billingham publisher Sixth Element will be staging a meet-the-publisher day and actively seeking to meet new authors. The day will work on a drop-in basis but if anyone wishes to make an appointment they can do so through John Dean at deangriss@btinternet.com
Added by John Dean on August 17, 2011 at 12:38pm — No Comments
Summer Fling programme
Darlington arts organisation arranges the great Summer Fling - and looks ahead to Autumn
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, is to stage a week of arts events to suit all tastes at the Vane Terrace complex, under the name The Summer Fling.
The Community Benefit Society, a type of co-operative, will take over the Centre for five days starting on Tuesday August 30 and culminating…
Added by John Dean on August 6, 2011 at 2:03pm — No Comments
Writing courses organised
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, has organised two writing workshops, one for adults, one for young people, to be held on Tuesday August 30.
The books and writing day will launch the week-long Summer Fling organised at the Vane Terrace centre by DfC, a Community Benefit Society, a type of co-operative. There will be a range of events, including a book fair and appearances by local authors.
The…
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Crime writing workshop
As part of the Crime Writers’ Association National Crime Writing Week, I am holding a crime writing workshop at Darlington Library in Crown Street on Monday 13th June 2-4pm. Tickets £2.00. Contact Carol Houghton 01325 349633…
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The next step forward
Darlington for Culture
News Release: 15 April 2011
Arts programme starts to take shape
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, has started work on planning a programme of events at the Vane Terrace building.
Darlington Borough Council, which owns the centre, has agreed that DfC, whose supporters come from community and arts groups across the borough, can stage some of the…
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The next step
Darlington for Culture
News Release: 21 March 2011
Darlington arts organisation to take important next step
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, will mark a significant step forward when it unveils its decision to become a Community Benefit Society.
The group will reveal details of the new Society at a public meeting being held at 7pm on Thursday March 31 at the Arts…
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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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