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01.  05.  2008

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02.  05.  2008

Internship Opportunities at Black Dog Publishing,

Black Dog Publishing is an innovative and exciting publishing company that produces titles on art, architecture, design, fashion, film, music and photography.

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02.  05.  2008

Editorial/Publishing Intern, Cultureshock Media

Cultureshock Media, a London-based arts publishing and online development company require an editorial/publishing intern.

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02.  05.  2008

NALD Professional Development Workshop

Evaluating One-to-One Continuing Professional Development for Writers and Literature Professionals. Tuesday 24 June 2008 1.30-4.30pm (with coffee/tea available from 1pm). Conference Room 4, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3HQ. This workshop is presented in association with literaturetraining.

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02.  05.  2008

Playwriting Competiton for 14-19 year olds

University of Hertfordshire is inviting young writers from the East of England to submit 15-minute plays for its new Writing Award. The submission deadline is 18th July 2008.

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02.  05.  2008

National Poetry Competition 2008

The Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition allows anyone who enters the opportunity to discover their own potential. Whether you are an established poet or someone new to writing, winning often provides the essential spur to take your writing further.

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12.  05.  2008

Africa Beyond presents Word from Africa

A celebration of African literature and languages in collaboration with SABLE LitMag.Saturday, 31 May 2008, 13.00-20.15. British Museum, London. Free admission

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12.  05.  2008

Photography and Writing Exhibition,

Huddersfield Literature Festival Creative Writing Competition and Exhibition 2008

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12.  05.  2008

Reaching Readers: Online Book Promotion Event

Writers!  Come to Dublin for Saturday June 7th 2008 to attend Font Literary Agency & Writing Centre’s day of lectures, workshops, demonstrations and case histories on the topic of online author and book promotion. 

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12.  05.  2008

Young Writers Festival '09

Submissions sought, Royal Court Theatre

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12.  05.  2008

THE SOUTH SEEKS FREELANCE SPONSORSHIP

Are you highly successful in sponsorship, event or advertising sales but looking for a new challenge? With our new Director-Designate in place and exciting plans for 2008 and beyond, THE SOUTH is seeking a very special person to be our Sponsorship, Advertising and Sales Activist.Closes Fri 23 May 2008 Paid Part time

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12.  05.  2008

A night of Finnish poetry in the Brighton Festival Fringe, THE SOUTH

POETRY SOUTH is delighted to welcome three leading, prize-winning poets from Finland to read as part of its Spring Series in the Brighton Festival Fringe.

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12.  05.  2008

The Greatest! Brendan Cleary with Rosy Carrick,

Launch of Brendan's new collection from tall-lighthouse and The Poets' Notebook from Pighog Press. Music from Katarina Holmberg. Joogleberry Playhouse, Brighton, Manchester Street. Thursday 5th June 8pm. Donation of £3 recommended

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12.  05.  2008

THE ROD HALL MEMORIAL AWARD 2008

The Rod Hall Memorial Award is presented every two years to an outstanding new playwright.

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12.  05.  2008

Islay Book Festival 2008

Will take place on the weekend of 6th/7th September 2008. Situated on the picturesque Scottish island of Islay, visiting writers include Iain Banks, Ali Smith and Linda Strachan.

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12.  05.  2008

Award winning Finnish poets read in Brighton.

The Quadrant, Air Street, Brighton (near the clock tower in the centre of Brighton).Monday 12th May 8pm. Donation of £3 recommended

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14.  05.  2008

MA Managing Creative Enterprise

Norwich School of Art and Design. The MA provides a flexible programme for full or part-time study, supported by tutors and practitioners with experience in a wide range of creative contexts and is a superb career development opportunity for those involved in Arts Management.Open Day between 3pm and 6.30 on Thursday 22nd May

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14.  05.  2008

A Poetry South Workshop with Brendan Cleary,

Mondays from 19th May (6 weeks), 7 – 9 pm at Brighton Writers’ Centre. £66/£60 concs, Friends of THE SOUTH £60/£54 concs

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15.  05.  2008

Ssshh littlest birds is a secret.

May 26th from 8 til 10.30 with the bar open to 11pm.
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden.
Entrance is £3.50 or £2.50 concessions

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15.  05.  2008

All Lady line up at NEW BLOOD

On May 21st, at 7.30pm
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden, London £5/3

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15.  05.  2008

APPLECART – Poets in a Pool

Over the next five weeks Apples and Snakes poets Aoife Mannix and Joseph Coelho will be creatively engaging in the rehearsal process of Oily Cart's new show Pool Piece.

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15.  05.  2008

SoundBlast Launch date: Tuesday 13 May 2008

The Poetry Book Society and Apples & Snakes are delighted to announce that SoundBlast goes live today. This lively new section on the Poetry Bookshop Online is dedicated to CDs from some of the UK’s best performance poets.

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15.  05.  2008

The Asian Writers Project. The May Update is now live.

This month we spoke to Sathnam Sanghera about his memoir If You Don't Know Me By Now.

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16.  05.  2008

Afrikan / Caribean storytellers network, Chi Creation Griots

Calling all Afrikan and Caribean storytellers from far and wide to the launch a new network.

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16.  05.  2008

From Me To You

Africa Beyond and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre are coming together to hold an event as part of Word from Africa.

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19.  05.  2008

Artful Ecologies 2

Art, Nature & Environment Conference 2008 ,9 - 12 July, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

 The second Art, Nature & Environment conference organised and hosted by the RANE research cluster at University College Falmouth, will take place over four days in July of this year.

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19.  05.  2008

PASTON WORKSHOPS FOR WRITERS

Part of a Project exploring the history of Paston, using the Paston letters  

As part of the Paston project, writing and printmaking workshops (11 May, 31 May, 29 June, 23 July) will explore the world of the Paston letters and the landscape and buildings of Paston today. 

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20.  05.  2008

New MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London is delighted to announce the launch of its new MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship.

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20.  05.  2008

New opportunity for emerging writers!

Jura Malt Whisky New Writer Retreat October 2008

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20.  05.  2008

Phrased and Confused

As part of our third Phrased & Confused outing, the hub is looking to commission four spoken word artists

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20.  05.  2008

Comma Press present

the launch of The Book of Liverpoola city in short fiction Ed. by Maria Crossan & Eleanor Rees

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20.  05.  2008

AFRICAN WRITERS' EVENING feat. Robyn Scott

Thursday 22 May 2008, 7.30pm (doors) Poetry Studio, 22 Betterton Street, London (Covent Garden tube)
4.00 / 3.00 (conc)

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20.  05.  2008

Literature Education Officer, Children's Discovery Centre

Closes Fri 30 May 2008 Paid Part time.
Contact Peter Jenkins peter.jenkins@childrensdiscovery.org.uk

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21.  05.  2008

Celebrating Sanctuary 2008

Free festival celebrating the work of refugee artists and launching Refugee Week, Sunday, 15 June 2008, 2 - 7pm. Bernie Spain Gardens, Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1 (adjacent to Oxo Tower Wharf), nearest train/tube:� Blackfriars, Southwark, Waterloo.FREE ADMISSION

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21.  05.  2008

Special Introductory Offer to Inside Out magazine, Inside Out

Part literary publication, part therapeutic expression, Inside Out is a new breed of literary arts magazine. Our mission is to promote the use of creativity for personal development through the publication of work with a focus on self-awareness and self-help

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21.  05.  2008

Poetry London seeks Reviews Editor, Poetry London

Poetry London is one of the UK's best selling poetry magazines

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22.  05.  2008

WRITERS..., zeitgeist theatre

Seeking short, sharp and witty theatre plays for a popular and unique event in South London.

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22.  05.  2008

Reproof Reading

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for May 2008: a review of 'Le Reprobateur/The Reprover' by Francois Coulon.

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22.  05.  2008

Write for the BCSA 2008 prize

Fact or fiction – both are welcome in the writing competition run in 2008 by the British Czech and Slovak Association.

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22.  05.  2008

Calling all Writers!!

New young, dynamic theatre company looking to stage rehearsed readings.

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22.  05.  2008

writer/editor, romanesque

Writers/editors required for new London Guide. Part-Time / Freelance.

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23.  05.  2008

NALD Scotland Co-ordinator

NALD wishes to appoint a Scotland Co-ordinator to further extend and develop its activities in Scotland following a successful pilot phase.

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27.  05.  2008

Writers' Rendezvous- networking event

Join Spread the Word, and writers from all over London at this busy, writers' networking evening.

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27.  05.  2008

Getting to where you want to be: A Script Yorkshire workshop

 A professional development workshop for dramatists in association with literaturetraining.

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27.  05.  2008

Write in Ink (WInk)

is a professional development programme for writers provided by Ink, established by Beccy Stirrup.

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27.  05.  2008

New Commission,

Flax is looking to commission a short fiction and a poem for a pair of limited edition posters to be launched at this year’s litfest in Lancaster.

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27.  05.  2008

Fest – celebrating 7 years of Flipped Eye

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12:00pm - 11:00pm, Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
FREE. To mark our 7th anniversary we are putting on a marathon 11 hours of FREE readings, discussions and book signings at the Poetry Cafe.

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27.  05.  2008

Memory Maps: Image, Place and Story

An interdisciplinary conference at CRASSH, University of Cambridge convened by Amanda Hopkinson (Director, British Centre for Literary Translation) and Marina Warner.Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 July 2008

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27.  05.  2008

British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School

Sunday 20 - Saturday 26 July 2008, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK.with Giles Foden, José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn, Shaun Whiteside,

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27.  05.  2008

Writing Workshop Poole,

Writing workshop with Mark Leahy at the 2nd geekfest biennale.27th May 11am-1pm FREE (booking essential as limited to 5 places)

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27.  05.  2008

Writers needed: Tether / All Smoke and No Fire,

Tether are in London from Thursday 29th May for All Smoke and No Fire. The exhibition focuses on the process of artistic compromise and reflects upon the reality of post-graduate life.

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27.  05.  2008

East Anglian Book Awards

The EDP, Jarrold's and the library service are pleased to present the inaugural East Anglian Book Awards. Open to works of fiction as well as non-fiction published between August 1 2007 and July 31 2008, the award is for books which have strong content relating to Norfolk, Suffolk or Fenland. Authors do not have to be resident in the East of England.

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27.  05.  2008

Queer Writers' Anthology Launch in Brighton,

Launch of a new anthology of emerging queer writers from the South East

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