Stop Press - fame by association!
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Annie Weir's niece Katie Ward has just published her first novel to rave reviews. She says
"It will be featured on TV Book Club on Sunday 4th March on More4.
Time to be confirmed, but probably 7:10pm - 7:20pm ish going by previous episodes.
It will be repeated on Channel 4, I don't know when exactly".
Well done Katie |
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Calling all members, please subscribe to
The
New Writing Cumbria website which is now up and running:
find it at www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk |
Spring and Summer
Term Dates
2012 |
Mungrisdale Writers Group Meetings with Angela Locke will take place on the following Thursdays at Mungrisdale Village Hall from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm. We welcome prospective members to any meeting for a 'taster' session
January 19th,
February 2nd and 16th
March 1st, 15th and 19th
April 12th, 26th
May 10th, 24th
June 7th |
2012 short story competition.
closing date for the competition is 19 March 2012 |
First prize is £2,000 – a stellar prize that also includes two optional extras: a week’s retreat at the home of early women’s writing, Chawton House Library, and a day with a Virago editor. Other winners will receive a share of the remaining £1,050 prize pot, and all winning stories will be published in the June 2012 issue of Mslexia.
The acclaimed novelist and short story author Tessa Hadley will be judging the entries this year (her latest collection, Married Love, is wowing reviewers as we speak…). , so there’s plenty of time to get your entry together. Full details can be found at
www.mslexia.co.uk/shortstory. |
Poetry Workshop
Geraldine Green |
Geraldine is running a poetry weekend at John Ruskin's home, Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria, June 22nd, 23rd and 24th, and wonders if any of us are interested in going along? You can get all the information on Brantwood's website below:
http://www.brantwood.org.uk/CreativewritingwithpoetrycourseatBrantwood.htm
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Open Short Story Writing Competition
Erewash Writers' Group
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Prizes of £60 First, £30 Second, £15 Third, this competition is to be judged by Keith ‘Carrot Nappers’ Large (find Keith's biography and further details of the competition on this website http://erewashwriterscompetition.weebly.com
Closing date midnight on Wednesday June 27th. Entry to the competition is £3.00 for one entry, £5.00 for two, and £2.50 for each additional entry.
Erewash Writers are also holding a 'free to enter' competition later this year which is detailed on their website. |
Chris Davis, winner of the competition with
The Erl King
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Following the success of
Mungrisdale Writers publication
DATING@60 and other TRIBULATIONS,
We are pleased to announce the results of our first
POETRY COMPETITION
LOOKING BACK
The following are the winners:
1st Prize The Erl King by Chris Davis
2nd Prize The Apprentice’s Poker by John Fryer
3rd Prize The Hall by Sue Nelson
Also 10 Highly Commended
(in alphabetical order)
According to Him by Terry Jones
A Cycle by Jenny Harrow
Dave’s Words by Martin Bagness
Isabella by Jo Champney
Lost Radios by James D.Taylor
Put Yer Coal In Missus by Ann Miller
Running With My Father by Chris Davis
The Bicycle by Jenny Harrow
The Garden by Jacqueline Bulman
The Falling Magnolia Petals Speak of An Early Winter by Geoff Smith |
Last few copies available at £7.50
from The Bluebell Bookshop, Waterstones, Amazon and or by emailing our secretary
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After the outstanding success of 'dating@60' Mungrisdale Writers are pleased to announce the publication of a new booklet of poetry in our Reflections Series. The Bliss of Solitude was inspired by the subject for the Mirehouse Poetry Competition in 2010 and was launched at a luncheon party on February 10th at The Mill Inn, Mungrisdale. Watch out for reviews and get your copy now for £2 by emailing our secretary
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INSIGHTS FROM THE PLAYGROUP MOVEMENT
equality and autonomy in a voluntary organisation
Edited by Ann Henderson
Written by Juliet Baxter, Mary Bruce, Meg Burford, Jill Faux, Sue Griffin, Ann Henderson, Linnet McMahon, Sheila Shinman and Charlotte Williamson Published by Trentham Books.
ISBN: 978 1 85856 503 3 216 pages, 244x170mm. Published in: October 2011 rrp £21.99 or £18.50 including p&p from PPA Book 20 Elizabeth Court, Sutton-in-the-Isle,Cambridge CB6 2QW.
This book shows how the playgroup movement flourished (from none to 17,000 groups in 25 years) and the excitement and learning that took place within it. It reaffirms the value of play at a time when outcomes and box ticking may seem to predominate. It also shows the fragility of an ever expanding movement struggling in its understanding of itself.
Written by early members of the movement, two of whom live and are well known in Cumbria – Meg Burford and Jill Faux - a member of Mungrisdale Writers – the lively descriptions of the birth and life changing growth of the movement are combined with strong messages of the need to define the philosophy and ethos of any voluntary organization in order to understand how acceptance of well meaning advice and funding will almost certainly have profound unseen effects.
This is a book for all those involved in self help and mutual aid organizations. It is particularly relevant to parents, trustees, volunteers, professionals, managers, policy makers, and politicians and to anyone who has happy memories of playgroup involvement. |
| New Committee and Officers |
At the AGM on 29th September 2011, the following were elected to the committee
Sue Banister, Chair,
Rosemary Hindle, Secretary,
Madge Leeming, Treasurer,
Annie Weir
Jane Taylor
Mike Dare
Angela Locke is an ex officio member of the committee
Jill Faux looks after the website
Congratulations to all and good luck |
An Invitation |
Contact Publishing (www.contact-publishing.com) is a boutique of independent publishers, with a mission to nurture fresh writing talent; bring fresh ideas and news format of books to the readers. The Page Turner Prize is our annual competition to invite budding authors to submit their work to be considered for publication. We would like to invite your group members to take part in this competition. Further details of the competition are on our web-site www.pageturnerprize.com |
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