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Writers' awards are launched
The Northern Writers’ Awards are now open for applications. The annual awards discover and nurture writing talent from the North of England and there is more than £46,000 worth of prizes and support up for grabs, for writers working across all forms and genres.
There are also two prizes available for young writers: the Cuckoo Young Writers Award, which you can apply for yourself if you’re aged 14-18, and the Matthew Hale Award, for which young writers are nominated by others.
This year’s judges are poet Daljit Nagra, novelist Louise Welsh, literary agent Caroline Sheldon, and writer and journalist Rachel Cooke. Peter Wilby will judge the Clare Swift Short Story Award.
This year, for the first time, the organisers are also looking for budding new writers for TV, as they have teamed up with Channel 4 and Northumbria University for a special award for two up-and-coming scriptwriters.
The Channel 4/Northumbria University Writing for TV Award will provide one of the winners the chance to work with Hollyoaks producer Lime Pictures in Liverpool. The winning writer will shadow the process of script development, from first draft to broadcast script.
The other winning writer will be given the chance to work with RED Production Company, receiving support from top television professionals to develop their own original ideas for broadcast.
The Northern Writers’ Awards are run by New Writing North, the writing development agency for the North of England, and made possible through funding from Arts Council England, and support from Northumbria University and the North East Chamber of Commerce.
You have until Monday 2 February to get your submission of prose, poetry, children’s writing, or creative non-fiction in.
For more information about the Northern Writers’ Awards and to enter, see www.northernwritersawards.com
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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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