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  Join us at Durham Book Festival 2024 For one long buzzing autumn weekend, Durham invites you to celebrate the transformative power of words. Get ready to be challenged, inspired, entertained, and swept away as some of the hottest names in fiction descend on the city, including Helen Fielding , Rebecca F. Kuang , Jodi Picoult , Alan Hollinghurst , Tracy Chevalier , and David Peace . With over 35 events across three days, delve into history, humour, poetry, and philosophy. Highlights include an exclusive dramatic reading from the latest novel of the acclaimed Durham author, Pat Barker CBE, and the Sunderland-born author Terry Deary – of Horrible Histories fame – discusses his first history book for adults. Take part in creative writing workshops, join a children’s story time, explore the mysteries of the cosmos, uncover history’s hidden women, or hear about the challenges of writing in conflict zones. What’s more, you can experience the most celebrated poets of 2024,

 Full details  The After the End poetry competition 2024 is open! Enter your poetry portfolios (up to 5 pieces per portfolio) by email to admin@ethox.ox.ac.uk by 3rd October, 2024 – National Poetry Day . This poetry competition invites creative responses from poets that critically engage with ideas of time and temporality and the question of who gets to say that something has ended. Work from poets at every stage of their writing careers is welcome. Judges will read all the entries, which will be anonymised. The competition will recognise previously unpublished newcomers, established names, and emerging talents.  Poems can be on any issue related to themes of time, temporality and endings and in any style. Individual poems should be no longer than forty lines and can include previously published poems as long as they fit the brief. The After the End Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £750, second and third place winners will b

  Full details  The theme for our 2024 Travel Writing Competiton is: My Greatest Journey . It could be about an epic train trip, bus ride, hike or horse ride. It could be about you and how a travel experience touched and changed you. It could be when something went very wrong or very right, break-downs or meeting like-minded fellow passengers. To enter, send your article of 500+ words, to competition@puretravel.com with your name and email address. Please put your title at the Subject and paste your text in to the email body. Do not send attachments. You could be our 2024 winner and take away US$500. You will also be published on our website. Full details in the T&C’s below. Remember, we support the work of the leading UK conservation charity Explorers Against Extinction , so by entering, you are supporting their work (don’t worry, its still free.) The Judge: Jeremy Lazell Jeremy Lazell worked for eight years as a trekking guide before turning to w

  Full details  For full-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry by a British or Irish author aged 18-35 The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award is an annual award, made possible by the Charlotte Aitken Trust and the Sunday Times. The prize of £10,000 is awarded for a full-length published or self-published (in book or ebook formats) work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, by a British or Irish author aged 18-35 years. There are prizes of £1,000 for each shortlistee. The winning book will be the work of the most outstanding literary merit.  Deadline to enter the prize: Friday 13 September 2024 The 2023 Charlotte Aitken Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award Winner Debut novelist and journalist Tom Crewe has been named winner of the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award for The New Life . The announcement was made at a live ceremony at Brixton’s Canova Hall by Joh

  Full details  Ignite Fellowship An annual award supporting the talents and ambitions of professional writers. Applications for The Ignite Fellowship are now open. Send us your application by noon on Wednesday 18 September 2024. Apply now in English Apply now in Gaelic How to apply  The Ignite Fellowship supports established writers who are embarking on or working through a significant project. You can apply whether the project is in its very earliest stages or already a work in progress. Find out more about this year's Ignite Fellows. The Fellowship was developed in consultation with our Writers Advisory Panel. There are three awards available in total. We are working in partnership with the Gaelic Books Council to provide one award specifically for a writer working in Gaelic. We also strongly encourage applications from writers working in Scots. The Fellowship is free to apply to and all travel expenses for programme commitments are covered. Awardees

 Full details  Book Submissions Arkbound is open to considering new submissions that fit with our criteria. Bear in mind, due to the quantity of submissions we receive, we may not be able to respond to each one. If we respond to your submission then you will be required to send a Synopsis, Sample Chapter (of at least 5000 words for an adult book or 10 pages for an illustrated children’s book) and Book Proposal that covers:- Your details (brief biography); Brief description of book and chapters; Market comparison; How the book can be promoted; How you will help promote and sell the book; Whether and how you will crowdfund for the book; Any other relevant information. Submissions should take into account the general Arkbound criteria, which focuses on supporting authors from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds, together wi

  Full details  To submit, please read our FAQs and submission requirements, complete the online submission form, and upload a copy of your script. Closing date: Sun 25 Aug, 5pm All entrants will receive an acknowledgement from the Northcott that we have received your script. If you do not receive this acknowledgement, experience technical issues with the online form, or have further questions, please email us on artists@exeternorthcott.co.uk . Name * First Last

  Full details  About A Play, A Pie and A Pint Founded in 2004 by David MacLennan, A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) produces the most new writing of any theatre in the UK. After running for twenty years, the core principles remain steadfast: to present a new play every week at lunchtime which lasts for under an hour with a pie and a pint included in the price of every ticket.  PPP produces more than 30 new plays a year across two seasons at Òran Mór in the West End of Glasgow. We regularly work in association with other theatres including the Traverse Theatre , Aberdeen Performing Arts , and Ayr Gaiety as well as new partners such as Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival , Mull Theatre , Macrobert in Stirling, and Pitlochry Festival Theatre to present our works to a variety of audiences across the country. We work with a large number of writers, actors, and directors each season, all with different levels of experience, from well-known actors to first time playwri