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The Poetry School
runs courses, workshops and seminars for writers of varying levels throughout the UK – including Manchester, Liverpool, Exeter, Bath, Newcastle, Durham and Cambridge – that provide outstanding teaching and mentoring opportunities. This year’s tutors include Bernardine Evaristo, Peter Sansom and Kathleen Jamie.
From £35 for a seminar/workshop to between £76 - £100 for a ten-week course.
www.poetryschool.com
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Competitions
Bench Theatre Playwriting Competition
is for full-length plays in English with a minimum running time of 80 minutes and using a maximum of eight actors. Prizes: £500 and a performance of the play; £250. Entry fee: £5.
Bench Theatre Playwriting Competition, PO Box 144, Havant PO9 1XB .
www.benchtheatre.org.uk
CLOSING DATE: 5 JANUARY
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Submissions
Bad Idea
is the new-ish kid on the block of hip young journalism. With its roots in 'modern storytelling', the bi-monthly (six per year) magazine mixes news, features, articles, short graphic tales and stunning photography. Presented as a neat, tightly bound, full colour treasure – in the size made fashionable by Glamour Magazine – it is brim full of adventurous writing demonstrating the far-reaching, often international, endeavours of its contributors.
Submissions are encouraged for all areas of the magazine including Out of the Ordinary (personal experience and reported opinion), Tell it Like a Story (literary journalism), Cultural Revelations and Photojournalism. See the website for the full and detailed Contributors' Brief.
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Festivals
Winter Words Festival
presents a cracking line-up of wordsmiths, authors and presenters, including: Brian Blessed, Janice Galloway, Julia Donaldson, Paul Murton, Esther Woolfson and Nell Nelson.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry.
22-25 January.
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Courses & Retreats
La Muse Writers' and Artists' Retreat
offers everything you need to get your work done and provides a space where artists and writers can work in a peaceful, inspired and structured setting in the company of creative peers.
Located in an ancient village perche called Labastide Esparbairenque, in the historic Aude department of Languedoc, Southern France.
€550-950 for four weeks.
Contact Kerry and John Fanning.
Mslexia LATEST
New! Mslexia Cover Competition
Design a cover for issue 41, and win £500 plus publication. Closing date: 27 February 2009 ◊ More details
New! WRITING WORKSHOPS
devised by Margaret Wilkinson to kickstart those entries for the short story competition ◊ Click here
Mslexia Women's Short Story Competition
Enter the inaugural Mslexia Short Story Competition. Judged by Helen Simpson. 1st Prize £2,000, a one-week writing retreat at Chawton House Library and an afternoon with a Virago editor. Closing date 23 January 2009 ◊ More details
Mslexia Writer's Diary
The Mslexia Writer's Diary 2009 is now available. Make 2009 your most creative year yet!
Mslexia Roadshow
Keep an eye out here for details of the next Mslexia workshops and roadshow events. You may also book the Mslexia Roadshow for your festival or event.
