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Apples and Snakes
http://www.applesandsnakes.org/
Apples & Snakes focuses on working with emerging artists, producing new work and putting poets in education. They work extensively with schools, prisons and libraries to develop literacy, communication skills, motivation and self-esteem through high quality performance poetry workshops and events. They run regular events across England alongside pioneering artist development programmes.
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ArtReach
ArtReach comprises two companies: ArtReach (Consultants) Limited and ArtReach (Events) Limited, with offices in Maidenhead and Leicester. More recently ArtReach has established ArtReach Trust, a not-for-profit company to lead on development of specific creative projects and programmes. ArtReach has a twelve year track record of providing a unique range of specialist support to help drive successful arts projects and activity. The agency delivers capital arts projects, vision and strategies, events, education and research programmes, development and business plans, funding strategies and bids, and organisational review. They work with theatres, galleries, festivals, dance companies, music organisations, carnival groups, local authorities and funding agencies (including Arts Council England and Sport England). Key areas of ArtReach expertise are:Festivals and Event Management & Direction, Vision and Programming, Organisational and Strategic Development, Funding Strategy and Fundraising, Business Planning, Carnival, Cultural Diversity, Public Art
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Arts Council England
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. As the national development agency for the arts, they support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, carnival to crafts. Great art inspires, brings together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2008 and 2011 Arts Council England will invest in excess of £1.6 billion of public money from the government and the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.
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Bookfutures Blog
http://www.bookfutures.blogspot.com/
Bookfutures is written by Chris Meade, Director of if:book london, a think and do tank exploring the future of the book as our culture moves from printed page to networked screen, and the potential of new media for creative readers and writers.
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Broadway
Broadway is a Media Centre born out of a consortium of local media organisations (Nottingham Media Consortium) who grouped together in the mid 1980’s with the support of the British Film Institute, East Midlands Arts, Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council. Broadway has developed many links with private, public, educational and voluntary sector partners to become a vital part of the city’s arts, media and creative community. They also provide a focus for people and communities to make, show and see a wide range of world cinema, video and new digital media. Broadway is a vibrant cultural, business and social centre that nurtures, supports and celebrates the arts and media within Nottingham, enabling countless new talents to arise from the local community and gain the skills and experience to achieve their personal goals and potential. More than 400,000 people visit the Centre each year, people of all ages, interests and backgrounds, representing the diversity of the community in which it serves. Broadway provides a cultural focus and meeting ground for the public within a City that is striving to improve its image and celebrate its creative talent. Broadway has supported the development of creative industry businesses and launched the careers of a growing number of talented film directors and producers. At the same time it remains accessible, open to all members of the public, responsive to fresh ideas, always willing to explore new opportunities and partnerships, and, like the consortia of public projects from which it emerged, has its roots firmly planted within Nottingham’s diverse and creative communities.
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CANT BOOKS
Cant Books is an independent publisher based in Norwich, established in the summer of 2009.
Seeking to publish adventurous bold new fiction. Creating a space for marginal texts as extreme caution grips the mainstream houses, pressing its thick moneyed thumbs on the neck of literary experiment and invention.
And as even the charity shops fill up with hysterical romances, slappable wizards and shiny cookery books… Cant says Basta! Genug! Enough!
Cant is opposed to vacuum-packed and editorially airbrushed fiction. Cant is a corrective to airport fiction. Cant will give the writers control – not the sales and marketing teams that are transforming fiction into a homogenous microwave pie. Cant wants ragged adventure and bold experimentation. Cant wants creative writing courses to instruct: “write about what you don’t know”. Cant wants madness, mess and surprise AND GOOD WRITING!!! -
Cathy Grindrod
http://www.cathygrindrod.co.uk/
Cathy Grindrod is a freelance writer and literature worker, based in Derbyshire. She has five published poetry collections including a forthcoming collection from Shoestring Press and was Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2005 to 2007. She provides services for writers including mentoring, professional development planning and poetry critiquing and is also an experienced leader of writing workshops and courses. Cathy currently manages www.contemporarywriters.com for the British Council and works on a variety of literature projects, specialising in those related to well being. She was also Literature Development Officer for Nottingham City Council from 2000 to 2008.
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Charnwood Arts
Charnwood Arts is an independent community arts and media organisation based in the Borough of Charnwood. They are committed to developing participation and aim to creatively engage in arts and media to create collective outcomes which give expression to the unique voices of the individual, the group or community. Opportunities include visual and performance work, workshops and residencies, competitions and project invitations as well as exhibitions and performances taking place with partners in other parts of the world, live and on the Net. They also offer a opportunities for artist and student placements on exchange or work programmes from around the world.
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Creative Leicestershire
http://www.creativeleicestershire.org.uk/
Creative Leicestershire works to develop creative businesses in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. The programme is focussed on potential and existing freelancers and small businesses working in the arts, design and media. They provide business services such as email bulletins, advice and counselling, funding, informal training sessions and network events as well as run projects to help sell work and services. Other activities include workspace development, support for Higher and Further Education and Advocacy.
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Creative Partnerships
http://www.creative-partnerships.com/
Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creative learning programme, designed to develop the skills of young people across England, raising their aspirations and equipping them for their futures. They foster innovative, long-term partnerships between schools and creative professionals, including architects, scientists, multimedia developers and artists. These partnerships inspire young people, teachers and creative professionals to challenge how they work and experiment with new ideas.Young people develop the skills they need to perform well not only in exams and extra-curricular activities, but also in the workplace and wider society. Creative Partnerships works with maintained schools from Key Stages 1 to 4 across England. A school can apply to one of three Creative Partnerships Schools programmes according to its needs and its commitment to creative learning. Schools will always receive the support of a creative professional as well as financial support.Visit the website to find out more about these exciting creative learning programmes. Creative Partnerships also delivers extensive Professional Learning initiatives, as well as the Find Your Talent scheme and the Shine National Youth Festival.
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Cultivate
http://www.cultivate-em.org.uk/
Cultivate is an innovative new company launched to work with cultural organisations of all scales to maximise potential, stimulate growth and enable them to become more successful, so that people in the East Midlands can enjoy a vibrant and thriving cultural sector. Cultivate focuses on support for not-for-profit organisations but will also act as a bridge within the commercial and public sectors to network, share experiences and allow different organisations to learn from one another.
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Derby City Council
Derby City Council website lists a wide range of cultural venues and services including media centres and libraries.
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Derbyshire Writer's Guild
The Derbyshire Writers’ Guild is an active community of writers and readers of Jane Austen fan fiction.
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Derwent Writers
http://www.derwentwriters.co.uk/
Formed in May 2004, we are a small, friendly, creative writing group who wish to improve their craft through discussion and critique. We meet monthly at the Community Room, Chaddesden Fire Station, Wiltshire Road, Chaddesden, Derby, from 7 – 9 pm on the last Wednesday of each month. Some write poetry, others short stories or articles. Members enter competitions and we hold workshops where a visiting author will give advice and help. We contribute to the Derwent Together Magazine which is distributed to every household within the Derwent Community. We are members of and attend the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Writing Groups (NAWG). We also produce an Anthology, which is sold locally in support of Charities. As a Group, we hold fund raising activities and social events during the year.If you would like more information or would like to join us, please contact our Secretary on 01332 600553.
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EM Media
EM Media is the Screen Agency for the East Midlands region of England. EM Media secures finance, nurtures talent, invests in success and stimulates growth and innovation ensuring East Midlands’ digital content industries lead and compete globally. In addition to supporting writers based in the East Midlands through investment in script development, EM Media runs an annual talent development scheme (DV Shorts) aimed at regionally based writers and writer/directors. The scheme launches each Autumn and successful applicants receive tailored training in addition to regular script development meetings. Commissioned projects through DV Shorts have gone on to secure festival screenings across the world and have won numerous awards, including the McLaren Award for New British Animation at Edinburgh International Film Festival and Best Short under 15 minutes at Palm Springs International Film Festival, in addition films produced through DV Shorts have been sold for UK and international distribution and broadcast.
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Film City
Film City is a digital arts and media resource with news, information and a comprehensive list of links to development and training, resources, opportunities and more. The site offers careers advice and a message board.
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Five Leaves Publications
Five Leaves is a small publisher based in Nottingham, publishing 15 or so books a year. Their roots are radical and literary. Their main areas of interest are fiction and poetry, social history, Jewish secular culture, with side orders of Romani, young adult, Catalan and crime fiction titles. Their website boasts a comprehensive list of readings and events as well as a full catalogue of titles available to purchase.
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INDIGO DREAMS PRESS and INDIGO DREAMS PUBLISHING
http://www.indigodreamspress.co.uk
Indigo Dreams Press and Publishing is a small press publisher who has recently located to Stoney Stanton in Leicestershire. They publish three magazines: Reach Poetry monthly, which offers cash prizes each issue and is now into its 10th year. It has its own website at www.reachpoetry.com ; Sarasvati, a bi-monthly publication showcasing poetry and prose with a minimum of 3 pages dedicated to each selected contributor; and The Dawntreader, a quarterly magazine of poetry and prose with themes of the mystic, landscape, myth, nature, legend, spirituality and love / concern for the environment. They run competitions for publication, publish anthologies and individual collections. They encourage established and new poets, have a broad view on style with quality being the watchword and have a world-wide readership. Their current collection “And again last night” attracted contributors from 16 countries. It is run by Ronnie Goodyer and his partner Dawn Bauling.
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Iota Magazine
The new Iota magazine is now published by the Templar arts organisation and enjoys an international literary reach along with strong East Midlands roots; it was founded in Matlock over twenty years ago. As a quarterly poetry magazine it is fast approaching its centenary edition. Each issue features the very best in exciting new poetry alongside reviews of new collections and features on the best new and established contemporary poets.
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Jane Weir
Jane Weir is Anglo-Italian, grew up in Manchester and lived in Belfast for several years before moving back to England. She was joint winner of the first Jackson Dawson Award for Poetry (2003) and her first collection, The Way I Dressed During the Revolution (Templar Poetry, 2005) was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award (2006). She has published a pamphlet, Alice, (2006) based partially on the life of the early twentieth century Derby political activist, Alice Wheeldon and a short monograph on the poet Charlotte Mew. She is currently completing a monograph on Katherine Mansfield, the modernist short story writer. Jane Weir’s second collection, Before Playing Romeo, was launched at the Wordsworth Trust Summer Poetry Readings at Grasmere in October 2007. Jane has recently been appointed the Fiction Editor of IOTA Magazine.
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Jon Mcgregor
Jon McGregor is the author of the critically acclaimed “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things” and “So Many Ways To Begin”. He is the winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Bermuda in 1976. He grew up in Norfolk and now lives in Nottingham. “Even the Dogs” is his third novel.
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Jon Vagg wordpress blog
Musings on the process of writing, along with occasional humour.
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Lakeside
http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/
Lakeside is the University of Nottingham’s unique public arts centre presenting an eclectic programme of music, dance, theatre, visual art and family events all year round. Based in the family-friendly surroundings of Highfields Park, with two excellent cafés as well as craft cabinets selling original works by leading craftmakers, Lakeside Arts Centre is the ideal place to take time out, unwind and experience the best in visual and performing arts. Since adding the Civic Trust Award Winning D.H. Lawrence Pavilion to their existing portfolio of the Djanogly Art Gallery and Djanogly Recital Hall in autumn 2001, Lakeside has rapidly established itself as a hugely successful new multi-arts centre in the East Midlands attracting almost half a million visitors in the first 3 years. They offer easy access to a year-round programme of high quality, diverse exhibitions, music, theatre, dance, comedy and literature performances, as well as the chance to participate in out-of-school workshop activities for children and young people.
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Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council have a comprehensive directory of cultural events and facilities.
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Leicester Poetry Society
http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk/
Leicester Poetry Society exists to promote and encourage all aspects of poetry, including workshops for local writers, publication of members’ poems and readings by both visiting and member poets, social occasions and other poetry events. Leicester Poetry Society is a self-governing body, managed by a Committee elected at the AGM.
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Leicestershire's Open Museum
http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/open_museum.htm
Leicestershire’s Open Museum is an exciting and unique museum without walls. Through the Resource Box, Artworks and Moving Objects loans collections, thousands of museum objects, art works and museum displays are brought to the communities of Leicestershire and Leicester every year. The collections are fantastic resources for inspiring creative writing and the Open Museum manages Write:Muse, an initiative to improve literacy through creative word-play. It has published, Words & Things: writing creatively from objects and art’, a guide for learning providers both in formal and informal education settings. The Open Museum also runs the Behind the Scenes Poetry Workshops series.
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Leicester Writers Club
http://www.leicesterwriters.org.uk/
Leicester Writers Club is an association of writers based in and around Leicester. Many club members are published and all are dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in their writing. The club was founded over 50 years ago, and its many members now span a wide range of writing forms, including poetry, novels, short stories, children’s fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and more. As well as providing advice and friendly, mutual support for each other’s writing, the club has wide access to information on writing competitions, writing courses, events and possible markets. From time to time Leicester Writers Club hosts public talks by writers or people working in the publishing industry. They also organise occasional residential weekend events for its members and have a very active e-mail forum.
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Literature Network
Literature Network gives comprehensive listings of the region’s distinctive festivals and live literature events, news and information, an A-Z of published writers resident in the region, useful directories and signposts, listings for writing groups and networks, plus details of opportunities to get involved with literature projects and professional development available near you. Visit regularly to find out what’s new!
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Lyric Lounge
http://www.lyriclounge.co.uk/main/#programme_saturday
July 2009 will see The Y Theatre transformed into The Lyric Lounge – a unique performance space celebrating the power of live literature. For seven days, the Lounge will bring laughter, lyrics, music and visual magic to one of Leicester’s finest live venues. As part of the cultural programme for the Special Olympics, Lounge events are expected to attract hundreds of artists, athletes, local families and literature fans alike. In the daytime, there will be a chill out space in the bar area, where visitors will be treated to coffee, books and films. This area will also feature ‘Lyrical Lunchtimes,’ open surgeries with The Book Doctor and a fantastic poetry-writing competition. Fans of quick-witted John Hegley will be pleased to hear that the Godfather of performance poetry himself has been confirmed as one of the Lounge’s evening headliners. Other events include a mighty Urban Slam, a multi-media feast inspired by museum objects and a side-splitting Comedy Cabaret.
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Maia Press
The Maia Press is a small independent publishing house. They are dedicated to bringing out high-quality original fiction by both new and established authors. Based in multi-cultural Hackney, East London, they plan to publish works by writers from diverse backgrounds, works in translation, and a limited number of titles which are out of print.Four of their novels published so far have been longlisted, shortlisted, or been the winner of major literary prizes, and most of their thirty titles have received favourable reviews in the broadsheet newspapers and literary magazines.
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Mainstream Partnership
http://www.mainstreampartnership.co.uk/
Mainstream Partnership re-launched in March 2007 as an organisation to help artists from black and minority ethnic communities in the East Midlands increase income and employment opportunities as professionals in the mainstream arts sector. They assist individuals and organisations to connect, engage and develop opportunities for black and minority ethnic arts practitioners and organisations. The organisation plays a key role in promoting and celebrating Cultural Diversity in the arts within the East Midlands region.
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New Art Exchange
http://www.thenewartexchange.org.uk/
New Art Exchange is the largest visual arts space outside London dedicated to African, African Caribbean and South Asian arts. NAE presents an annual programme of contemporary visual arts of national and regional standing. As a landmark building they host landmark exhibitions changing the local arts landscape. NAE curates a rich and dynamic mix of artist talks, symposiums, workshops, spoken word events and live performances triggered by the artistic programme. The purpose-built studio hosts residencies, encouraging creativity within the space.
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Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle was born in Manchester in 1963. He is the author of five novels – Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director’s Cut and Antwerp – and one short story collection, Mortality. He has edited twelve anthologies including A Book of Two Halves (Phoenix), The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams (Serpent’s Tail), The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories (Penguin), and Dreams Never End (Tindal Street Press). He lives in Manchester with his wife and two children, and teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Nightjar Press
http://nightjarpress.wordpress.com/
Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising – for the time being – in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. It is brought to you by the people behind early 1990s British Fantasy Award-winning publisher Egerton Press, responsible for Darklands, Darklands 2 and Joel Lane’s short-story collection The Earth Wire. The publisher is Nicholas Royle, the designer John Oakey.
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Nottingham Arts Theatre
http://www.nottingham-theatre.co.uk/
The Nottingham Arts Theatre is a charity, which operates a community theatre run by a dedicated group of volunteers and a professional management team. It also runs as an in-house theatre company and a Youth Theatre group, which presents a full programme of plays and musicals. The charity is keen to support the cultural development of the city and as a result, stages joint productions, supports community theatre groups and provides performance space for dance schools, operatic companies and a growing range of music events. Other facilities in the theatre include rehearsal spaces, a cafe bar and theatre workshops, which are currently undergoing complete renovation. During the last 60 years, the theatre company has firmly established itself in the community and built an excellent reputation on the quality of its productions and contribution to the amateur theatre community.
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Nottingham City Council
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/
Nottingham City Council website has listings of cultural events and facilities such as media centres and libraries.
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Nottingham Comedy Festival
Nottingham Comedy Festival – 30th October – 7th November 2009
Nottingham Comedy Festival is a week full of comedy events around the City of Nottingham. Involving many forms of comedy including Stand-up, Improvisation, Plays and Poetry, it will also include workshops in Stand-up, Improv and Script Writing. Featuring some established comedians as well as up and coming comedians the festival intends to bring together the community and explore the world of comedy.
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Nottingham Contemporary
http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/
Nottingham Contemporary will open to the public in 2009. It will be an international art centre with a strong local sense of purpose. It will act as a dynamic intellectual catalyst for all sorts of people, through its exhibitions, its partnerships and its educational programme. Nottingham Contemporary is an open, inclusive organisation that will share its physical, virtual and philosophical spaces with as many people as possible. It will be a social and cultural centre, welcoming local, regional, national and international visitors.
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Nottingham Playhouse
http://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/
Nottingham Playhouse Trust is a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity. As a regional producing theatre they create over ten productions per year. The company’s mission statement is to produce bold and thrilling theatre that is world-class, made in Nottingham and as diverse as the community. They also present a range of visiting dance, comedy and music at the Playhouse’s listed 1963 building and home of Anish Kapoor’s striking Sky Mirror. Nottingham Playhouse employs a 90-strong workforce and run the world famous Theatre-in-Education company, Roundabout, which takes smaller plays and educational workshops into schools and colleges throughout Nottinghamshire. As well as creating dynamic work they offer many ways to participate from workshops, meetings, youth theatre groups, placements and a range of schemes which encourage access to the work of the theatre. Every year more than 100,000 people visit Nottingham Playhouse. Their Outreach and Education work reaches a further 25,000 people from all over the UK. Nottingham Playhouse attracts internationally renowned artists. In the past these have included Dame Judi Dench, Emmanuelle Béart, John Neville, Hugh Grant, James Bolam, Alistair McGowan, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rosamund Pike and many more.
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Nottingham Writers Studio
http://www.nottinghamwriters.wordpress.com/
Set up in June 2006 this work and resource centre is located in the heart of the ‘artistic quarter’ of The Lacemarket in Nottingham. Nottingham Writers Studio is dedicated to the support and development of all forms of creative writing in the city. Novelists, poets, songwriters, screenwriters, playwrights, critics, copywriters, indeed authors of all descriptions are welcome to join. As well as offering a resource room with wi-fi access, magazines and books and comfortable chairs and coffee, the Studio also offers a meeting space, hot desking and dedicated writers’ workspaces. Members have access to a comprehensive programme of events, professional support and opportunities.
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Phoenix
The Phoenix is an independent arts cinema in the heart of Leicester. The cinema is being expanded to include Leicester’s flagship new Digital Media Centre, the Phoenix Square. The £21 million building in the heart of the city’s Cultural Quarter is set to open in autumn 2009 and will include cinema screens, business spaces, digital arts facilities and new apartments. There will be a huge range of state-of-the art facilities, including three cinema screens, a digital exhibition space and digital production facilities. Phoenix Square will also house 37 new creative businesses, continuing the success of Leicester Creative Business Depot, along with seven two-storey studio-office units and a public cafe/bar. There will be strong links with De Montfort University’s world-class research in new media and the digital arts.
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QUAD
QUAD is a Cinema, Gallery, Café Bar and Workshop on the Market Place in Derby’s Cathedral Quarter.
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Rhyme & Flow
http://www.rhymeandflow.blogspot.com/
Rhyme & Flow provide’s workshops and events to communities within Northamptonshire & Leicestershire. The Rhyme & Flow Arts Team consists of artists who work in the community and perform in the UK and abroad. All artists have had experience and training in the arts, leading workshops & working in the community. The Rhyme & Flow Arts Team provide a range of opportunities in oral cultural arts, for the community.
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Short Fuse
http://www.shortfuseleicester.wordpress.com
Short Fuse is Leicester’s only short fiction showspace. Championing both the short story form and its writers, we place unpublished writers of quality fiction on an equal footing with more established writers. The evenings are often themed, featuring six readings sometimes with a spontaneous flash-fiction slot. Each month there is a headlining act. The atmosphere is cabaret-style – warm, vibrant, supportive of first-time readers, with breaks between readings, music and a bar. Interested newcomers and short fiction fans alike can expect an evening’s great entertainment.
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Templar Poetry
http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk
Templar Poetry, based in the heart of Derbyshire, is an independent publisher of excellent contemporary poetry in pamphlets, collections and anthologies. They are committed to developing wider audiences and readers to poetry through their published poetry as well as live poetry events ranging from the annual Derwent Poetry Festival to author events in a wide variety of settings.
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The Arvon Foundation
http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p1.html
The Arvon Foundation is about creativity through writing. Open to all, Arvon’s residential courses – in four natural settings – challenge, inspire and transform people’s creative lives. They work with writers of every age and at every stage of their writing lives. They run week-long residential creative writing courses in Devon, Shropshire, Yorkshire and Inverness-shire. Arvon’s unique grants scheme means they’re completely open access.
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The Asian Writer
http://www.theasianwriter.co.uk/
The Asian Writer aims to inspire the next generation of British Asian writers; it hopes to promote published writers whilst offering new writers a platform to showcase their work. The Asian Writer is keen to hear from individuals and organisations who share their vision. Whether you are in need of an Asian writer to speak at your next event, would like help to run a workshop or would like to promote a book or writer, visit their website to find out more.
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Theatre Writing Partnership
http://www.theatrewritingpartnership.org.uk/
Theatre Writing Partnership is a pioneering writing organisation set up to enable creative collaboration on the development of new theatre writing across its producing theatres. Their core activities are involve supporting, encouraging and creating opportunities for writers based in the East Midlands. They work closely with partner theatres on new plays, and throughout the year provide dramaturgical support on a number of commissions. Theatre Writing Partnership is committed to discovering and nurturing writing talent from across the East Midlands and welcome submissions of scripts from writers based in the region. They run a number of young writers’ groups across the region and also design bespoke workshops for schools, colleges and community centres. They also occasionally run workshops to tie in with specific projects.
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The Literary Consultancy
http://www.literaryconsultancy.co.uk/
The Literary Consultancy is a leading manuscript assessment service, providing expert, market-aware editorial advice to writers at all levels writing in English. Founded in 1996, The Literary Consultancy is recommended by The Arts Council England and major publishing houses, and holds a strong track record of helping writers get into print. The Literary Consultancy offers detailed critical assessments of fiction, non fiction, autobiography, children’s books, film/TV/theatre/radio scripts, and poetry at all stages of development. The team of readers and editors are highly skilled, professional and sensitive, with established working connections with leading publishers and agents.
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Tiger Garden Word Press
http://tigergarden.wordpress.com/
Blog by Nicholas Royle
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Time Travel Opportunists
http://timetravelopportunists.blogspot.com
The Time Travel Opportunists are Emma J. Lannie, Richard ‘Biff’ Birkin, and Nathan Good. They all live in Derby , write stories and publish them. In April 2008 they released their first, self-published book entitled ‘Coffee.’ They then went on to publish ‘Time’, ‘ Home’ and collaborated with performance poet, Michael Frearson to publish ‘Being that Person’ and This Side of Poetry’. The Time Travel Opportunists and Michael Frearson are also part of Hello Hubmarine, a Derby based new writing and spoken word collective who put on live literature events the last Saturday of the month at the Big Blue Coffee Co., Sadler Gate in Derby’s Cathedral Quarter.
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Un:Bound
http://www.unboundblogzine.com/
Un:Bound is a book review site largely focussed on genre fiction. The site includes interviews, articles and lots more alongside reviews by a small and varied team.
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Wild Thyme Writers' Groups
http://www.wildthymewriters.co.uk/
Wild Thyme Writers’ Group is a creative writing group, made up of people from all walks of life. They are passionate about inspiring and developing writing techniques in prose and poetry. Based in the city of Derby, the group has been running for several years, and welcomes writers of all levels of experience and of all styles. The group meets on the first Thursday of every month in Derby city centre.
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Writing School Leicester
http://www.writingschoolleicester.co.uk/
Writing School Leicester is a specialist creative writing school taught by practising writers and journalists. They deliver short, part-time writing and journalism courses of quality that lay clear emphasis on meeting the needs of the writing industries. They also facilitate creative writing projects, and welcome requests to tailor-make courses to meet the specific demands of organisations and businesses in the East Midlands and beyond. Backed by over 50 years experience of teaching writing in adult education in Leicester, Writing School Leicester set up in 2006 as a not-for-profit creative business and began trading as a limited company. Writing School Leicester welcomes secret scribblers, developing writers, and emerging professionals.
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Y Theatre
http://www.leicesterymca.co.uk/
The Y is a bustling live performance venue based in Leicester city centre. Their eclectic programme includes music, comedy, theatre, dance and spoken word. The 300 seat theatre also hosts candle-lit cabaret style events and standing gigs. The Y offers a diverse range of courses, classes and workshops that give people an opportunity to learn a new skill, follow a lifelong ambition or just try something fun. The tutors bring creativity to their teaching as well as being effective group facilitators. Built in 1900, The Y is the oldest surviving theatre in Leicester.
