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WRITER OF THE MONTH
To celebrate this year’s fantastic shortlist, we’ll be featuring the East Midland’s Book Award authors in the countdown to the award ceremony on the 20th June. Our fourth author is Jonathan Taylor who’s Entertaining Strangers was shortlisted for the 2013 award. Read an interview with Jonathan here.
For your chance to be featured on the website, please contact hayley@writingeastmidlands.co.uk
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Would you like to review the East Midlands Book Award 2013 shortlist with the opportunity to have your review published on the Writing East Midlands website? Find out how here.
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Listen to an interview with EMBA judge Mel Read and Shortlisted author Will Buckingham talking about the East Midlands Book Award, a writing career and tips to getting into writing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015lf8z (listen in around 1h:37m:30s)
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Projects
JUDGES ANNOUNCE SHORTLIST FOR EAST MIDLANDS BOOK AWARD 2013
Posted 18th March 2013
The Trustees of the East Midlands Book Award are delighted to announce the shortlist…
Editing and Writer Development Day
Posted 1st March 2013
Are you an emerging writer, looking to hone your work for publication? Perhaps…
Events
New Town Readings
24th May 2013
Two readings from either side of the pond examine our consciousness as society…
Nottingham Poetry Society Slam
25th May 2013
Judged this year by Derby poet Les Baynton who is MC of the Quad Poetry Night open…
Opportunities
COMMONWORD CHILDREN’S DIVERSITY WRITING PRIZE 2013
Posted today
The Commonword Children’s Diversity Writing Prize welcomes submissions from…
New Playwriting Festival 2014
Posted yesterday
The Thirteenth New Playwriting Festival is to be held in March 2014. Four pieces…
Blogs
Follow the participants in this year's Mentoring Scheme:
Richard: And the winner is...
Posted on 20th May 2013 at 14:28
Following on from last week’s discussion on how to decide what novel to write next, I have to confess that I’ve managed to break my own rule. I was filled with good intentions...
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Nottingham Festival of Words
Nottingham's first Festival of Words comes to the city 9 - 24 February 2013. Events will be taking place at Newstead Abbey, Nottingham Trent University's Newton Building, The...
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Pippa Hennessy - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Read about Pippa's experiences working with Mark Gwynne Jones and a group of inspiring Year 8 students from Springwell College, as part of Writing East Midlands' Write Here and...
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Mouthy Poets
The Mouthy Poets are a group of young people that don't just 'do poetry' they write, perform, market, coordinate and facilitate their own community events. Based at the...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva
Documenting an artistic journey in creating a work for performance by a black woman multi -artist in England - poetry/spoken word, physical theatre music, digital still and moving...
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