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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