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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, theatre and radio.
Each course is different and deals with everything from characterisation to plotting, creating strong sense of place to how to edit.
There will be three courses over the next year (all beginning at 7pm), starting with:
Autumn term 2012 (10 weeks)
Tuesday
Price: £46 (Concession £37)
First session September 18
Half term - No class October 30
Final session November 27
Wednesday
Price £46 (Concession £37)
First session September 19
Half term - No class October 31
Final session November 28
Bookings
Bookings are now being taken for the Autumn term course. Booking in advance is to be recommended as these courses are very popular. Cheques made out to Inscribe Media Limited should be sent to 18 Milbank Court, Darlington, Co Durham DL3 9PF, making clear which course you wish to book using the slip below. More information is available from John on 01325 463813 or email deangriss@btinternet.com
I ………………………… of (address)…………………………….......... Would like to book on the Autumn creative writing term (Tue/Wed, delete where applicable)
I enclose a £ payment
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Concession rates applies to pensioners or those on unemployment benefit
* Supported by Darlington for Culture (logo attached)
The 2013 courses will be:
Spring Term 2013 (10 weeks)
Tuesday
Price: £46 (Concession £37)
First session Jan 15
Half term no class Feb 19
Final session March 26
Wednesday
Price: £46 (Concession £37)
First session Jan 16
Half term no class Feb 20
Final session March 27
Booking from November 27, 2012
Summer term 2013 (8 weeks)
Tuesday
Price: £32 (Concessions £26)
First session April 30
Half term No class May 28
Final session June 25
Wednesday
Price: £32 (Concession £26)
First session May 1
Half term No class May 29
Final session June 26
Booking from March 26, 2013
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About
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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