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Writing and Publishing at the Centre for Creative Practices
offers a number of evening courses for six and ten weeks duration and a series of one-day seminars focused on developing writing style and artistic imagination. See website for detailed information.
Centre for Creative Practices, Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin, Ireland.
www.cfcp.ie
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Competitions
The Hippocrates Prize
is for poems of up to 50 lines on a medical subject. Judges: Dr Dannie Abse, Professor Sir Bruse Keogh, James Naughtie. Prizes: £5,000, £1,000, £500, 20@£50.
Entry fee: £6 per poem.
The Hippocrates Prize, c/o The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, 12 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DR.
www.hippocrates-poetry.org
CLOSING DATE: *Extended* 15 February
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Submissions
Bust
is a US women's magazine with an attitude that is fierce, funny and proud to be female. It offers an uncensored view on the female experience and has been published since 1993.
Send stories or story ideas, and other work in these categories: The Pop Culture (250-350 wds); Real Life (cooking, crafts, cars, career etc., 250-350 wds); Around the World in 80 Girls (1,000-1,500 wds). Features (2,500 wds) are themed, but writers can sign up for deadline notification. Erotic fiction with the female reader in mind (1,500 wds) also welcome.
Don't send poetry.
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Festivals
Travellers' Tales Festival
is a unique festival of travel photography and writing offers an exciting weekend of talks, workshops, films and fun, at the historic headquarters of the Royal Geographical Society, who will be showing items from the Collection of famous explorers' possessions.
The festival line-up includes the greatest living photojournalist Don McCullin, top wilderness and wildlife photographers Steve Bloom, Colin Prior and Frans Lanting, acclaimed travel writers Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy and Chris Stewart, famous explorers Benedict Allen and Robin Hanbury-Tenison, and many more…
25% off ticket prices for Mslexia readers! Click the link below and quote the code: TTF10MS
Royal Geographical Society, London
19-21 February
www.travellerstalesfestival.com/TTF10MS
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Courses & Retreats
Peralta
offers creative inspiration in a rustic setting in the Tuscan foothills, overlooking the Mediterranean. The week-long creative writing course in May is suitable for complete beginners as well as for more experienced scribes wishing to hone their craft or take a change in direction. The programme is led by Open University tutor and experienced author Kathleen Jones and best-selling novelist Mary-Rose Hayes.
Peralta, Tuscany
15-22 May
Book via the website or call Kate, +39 584 951 230, or Dinah, +39 349 359 7900.
www.peraltatuscany.com
Mslexia LATEST
MSLEXIA WOMEN'S SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2010
Judge: Tracy Chevalier. First prize: £2,000 plus a week's writing retreat at Chawton House Library and a day with a Virago editor. COMPETITION NOW CLOSED. Winners will be notified mid-March.
Short story workshops
devised by Laura Fish to help kick-start your entry for the 2010 Short Story Competition ◊ Click here
Mslexia Writer's Diary
The Mslexia Writer's Diary 2010 is still available to order. Make 2010 your most creative year yet – hurry, while stocks last!
MSLEXIA ROADSHOW
There is an exciting upcoming event on the Mslexia Roadshow at Bishop Auckland Town Hall (5 Mar) ◊ Click here
MSLEXIA AND SHORTSTORYRADIO.COM
The winning short story from the 2009 Women's Short Story Competition, 'Wiggy' by Beda Higgins, is now available as an audio recording ◊ Click here
POETRY COMPETITION WINNErS ANNOUNCED!
Congratulations go to Sarah Roby, winner of the 2009 Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition ◊ Click here
POETRY WRITING WORKSHOPS
designed especially by Elizabeth Whyman to inspire prize-winning poems ◊ Click here
