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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 application to the County Durham Community Foundation. Although able to be enjoyed by everyone, the double-CD has its roots in the belief that there is a need for original fiction for those who are partially-sighted. Discs are being given away to North East groups who represent the partially-sighted and their members have also been invited to attend the launch of the disc at the arts centre at 11am on Tuesday August 30. Copies will also be on sale on the day, price £5.
The launch will be part of Darlington for Culture’s week-long Summer Fling.
The books and writing day includes:
10-5 Book fair featuring several local booksellers
10.4 Day-long children’s workshop with arts centre tutor Lynn Miller
For children aged 9-14. They will write and perform a story - and all in a day. Cost £20 Booking on (01325) 486555.
11am Launch of The Last Waltz, the Inkerman Writers‘ CD for the partially-sighted
2-4 Creating the perfect villain - An afternoon crime writing workshop taken by John Dean - two hours. Cost £13 Booking on (01325) 486555.
9.30am-3.30pm Origami drop-in Arts and Crafts session. Artist Lip Lee will demonstrate the Chinese art of paper folding.
Throughout the day: Readings and workshops featuring local authors and writing groups, the RASC writing group and Inkerman Writers among them. 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
Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up late last year to help save Darlington Arts Centre, has organised a week of arts events to suit all tastes at the Vane Terrace complex, starting with the books and writing day on August 30 and culminating with a day of activities, the DfC Arts Fair, on Saturday September 3.More information about the rest of the week’s programme can be obtained at www.darlingtonforculture.org
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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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