Sunday 17 October 2010

Renegade Writers

If you are unable to make it to a monthly StOW meeting, why not come along to a Renegade Writers' Group meeting? Renegade Writers meets every Wednesday at 7.30pm in the Jolly Potters, Hartshill. Click here for more information.

Saturday 11 September 2010

FaceBook

Not much activity on this blog, I'm afraid -- but if you are on FaceBook, join us there!

Friday 26 February 2010

Rotton Park Theatre Company visits StOW

REMINDER

The Stoke-on-Writing (StOW) writers' group is pleased to announce our first Guest Speakers. On 10th April 2010, from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm, StOW hosts a Q&A session on scriptwriting with the Rotten Park Road Theatre Company’s Lynne Payne (Creative Producer) and Patrick McConnell (Artistic Director and Resident Writer).

The Rotten Park Road Theatre Company is an amalgamation of Staffordshire-based artists who joined forces to create new, challenging and interesting work in a variety of mediums. The Rotten Park Theatre Company will have a permanent base at the Mitchell Memorial Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent when it reopens later in 2010. For more information visit their site.

This talk is free to StOW members; there is a small fee of £2.00 for non-members. Space is limited so please book in advance, and book soon: email here.
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Poetry Competition

FREE TO ENTER
The Poetry Contest
£1,000 first prize.

From the press release: "We are delighted to invite FREE entries for the National Poetry Anthology. The competition aims to encourage more people to write poetry. It's open to all UK residents, young or old. Over 250 winners are selected each year, each one representing a different UK town or area. All winners are published in the anthology and all receive a FREE copy of the book. Send up to three poems (20 lines and 160 words maximum each) by June 30th 2010 to United Press Ltd, Admail 3735, London, EC1B 1JB (www.unitedpress.co.uk). One overall winner will also receive a cheque for £1,000 and the National Poetry Champion Trophy."
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Thursday 18 February 2010

Interviewees required for film project

Stoke-on-Writing has received this message from Malia Pimblott:

I am 3rd year student at Staffordshire University studying Media Production. I am currently embarking on my final project for major and in my research came along your your stoke-on-writing blog. As my final film, I am planning to produce a documentary on imagination. For this I am looking for people to interview in the stoke-on-trent area and ask about what they used to imagine when they were children. This can be anything, from imaginary friends, worlds, games they came up with, anything that can convey imagination.

For this project I want to interview people who are creative and thought that you might be able to point me in the right direction with some of the writers who follower your blog. even just posting a message up on your blog or facebook page would be a great help. If you are interested in any details or more information please don't hesitate to contact me on my e-mail.

Thank you for your time.
Malia Pimblott (Staffordshire University Media Production Student)
maliapimblott@yahoo.co.uk

Saturday 30 January 2010

Alt Fiction 2010

Saturday 12 June 2010 -- We're back! Writing East Midlands presents Derby's hugely popular festival of alternative fiction this summer at QUAD. The day's festivities will include panels, workshops, readings, comedy improv and a late night horror film showing. The full programme will be announced shortly but expect to see Alt.Fiction favourites - Mike Carey & Ramsey Campbell along with new faces to Alt.Fiction - Stephen Jones & Rob Shearman.

For more information go here.
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Rotton Park Theatre Company visits StOW

The Stoke-on-Writing (StOW) writers' group is pleased to announce our first Guest Speakers. On 10th April 2010, from 11.30 am to 1.00 pm, StOW hosts a Q&A session on scriptwriting with the Rotten Park Road Theatre Company’s Lynne Payne (Creative Producer) and Patrick McConnell (Artistic Director and Resident Writer).

The Rotten Park Road Theatre Company is an amalgamation of Staffordshire-based artists who joined forces to create new, challenging and interesting work in a variety of mediums. The Rotten Park Theatre Company will have a permanent base at the Mitchell Memorial Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent when it reopens later in 2010. For more information visit their site.

This talk is free to StOW members; there is a small fee of £2.00 for non-members. Space is limited so please book in advance, and book soon: email here.

Friday 15 January 2010

Vault of Evil

If you enjoy horror stories, particularly older ones, visit the Vault of Evil message boards. Here is a compendium of information, mostly about anthologies and collections.
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Earlyworks Website

The Earlyworks website is geared towards writers and artists. It may be just what you are looking for. Visit here. This site does list some competitions.

Note that website mentions on this blog are not endorsements. Caveat emptor.
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StOW FaceBook Site

Happy 2010. Let's hope it's productive and successful for all.

The Stoke-on-Writing group now has a FaceBook site. To find it just do a search on StOW once you've logged in /registered with FB -- it should work!
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