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08 November 2023

Welcome to The Writer's Compass E-bulletin #590 Our next bulletin will be sent on 22/11/2023. Anything sent to Philippa Johnston by 20/11/2023 will be considered.

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Feature

Notice of the NAWE Annual General Meeting 2023
The NAWE AGM will take place online tomorrow, Thursday 9 November 2023 from 18:30 – 19:00 GMT. This is the formal part of our business where we sign off the annual accounts and share a report about NAWE’s achievements during 2022-23. All members are welcome to attend. Please pre-register by emailing admin@nawe.co.uk by 12 noon today (Wednesday 8th November). The Agenda, draft Accounts & Annual Report for 2022/2023 and minutes of the 2022 AGM are now online. A Zoom link will be sent out to those who have registered this afternoon. If you have any queries, please email admin@nawe.co.uk.

NAWE Member Meet-Up (December 2023) – Save the Date!
The third NAWE Member Meet-Up will take place on Wednesday 6 December 2023, 18:00 – 19:00 GMT on Zoom. It’s free and a great chance to share news of your writing work and hear what others are up to. The last 30 minutes of this Meet-Up will focus on the challenges of working in schools. Registration opens shortly.

NAWE Publications

Writing in Practice Vol 10: Call for submissions
Articles exploring the art of imaginative writing of all kinds from an authorial perspective, highlighting and evolving current academic thinking and practice, are invited. Read the full submission guidelines. Please email publications@nawe.co.uk with any queries. Deadline: 19 January 2024, 23:59. Volume 9 will be published this month.

Writing in Education
The Autumn 2023 (Vol 90) issue is available to download as a pdf.

Submissions for the Winter 2023 (Vol 91) issue are open until 15 January 2024. We are looking for articles covering all aspects of creative writing in education, especially developmental work.

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Jobs

Events Producer, The Forum

Deadline: 28/05/2024 - East England
We are looking for a dynamic and ambitious Events Producer to join The Forum team. The successful candidate will create high-quality, innovative and inspiring events and activities. They will be specifically responsible for the development of a new books festival.

Director, Poetry Translation Centre

Deadline: 03/06/2024 - London
As the Poetry Translation Centre celebrates 20 years since its founding and as Director Erica Hesketh steps down after an incredible 8 years in post, we are seeking a dynamic and creative individual to lead the next chapter in our story and to support the incredible team at the PTC to realise the next phase of our vital work.

Editor (freelance), Poetry Translation Centre

Deadline: 12/06/2024 - UK
The Poetry Translation Centre is seeking a freelance Editor to join our small and dynamic team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of editing poetry and/or literature in translation, an international outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Call out for Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator in Oswestry, North Shropshire, England, Writing West Midlands

Deadline: 03/06/2024 - West Midlands
Do you live near Oswestry, Shropshire? Writing West Midlands is looking for a professional writer to lead a new Spark Young Writers group which will be starting in Oswestry in September 2024.

Marketing & Communications Manager, Push the Boat Out

Deadline: 23/05/2024 - Scotland
We are looking for an exceptional candidate to join our small team to create and implement our marketing strategy on a year-round, freelance basis.

Director and House Manager for Totleigh Barton, Arvon

Deadline: 10/06/2024 - South West England
Arvon is looking for a Director (closing date 17 June 2024) and House Manager (closing date 10 June 2024) to join the team at Totleigh Barton, our Devon writing house. This is an opportunity to become part of an organisation that places literature and creative writing at its heart.

Writer in Residence: The National Trust Brimham Rocks, Word Up North

Deadline: 24/05/2024 - Yorkshire
The National Trust in partnership with Word Up North is seeking a Writer-in-Residence for Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in North Yorkshire. The site's mysterious and awe-inspiring rock formations are a magnet for geologists, naturalists, climbers, walkers and young families.

Co-facilitator for writing workshops - train project, outside it is beautiful

Deadline: 20/05/2024 - North West England
outside it is beautiful is seeking a writing facilitator and editor to work with our writing producer from 1 October 2024 in the Bentham, Settle/Giggleswick area in Yorkshire Dales for a community audio stories project set on the Bentham Train Line.

Lead Creative Schools Scheme Practitioner Callout - Springwood Primary, Cardiff

Deadline: 20/05/2024 - Wales
Springwood Primary School, Cardiff is looking for one or perhaps two practitioners to work on a LCS project. ENQUIRY: How can we introduce creativity into the school to support themes of transition, identity and diversity?

New Writing Sought, Open Book

Deadline: 23/05/2024 - Scotland
Open Book is seeking writing and supporting material from Scottish writers (writers living and working in Scotland) for their Unbound programme.

Freelance / Student Opportunity - Marketing/Website Building

Deadline: 01/06/2024 - International
Freelance / Student opportunity available for a promoter of new Writers' Retreats to be held in the Costa Tropical area. Must have previous marketing and website building experience. Fluency in English/Spanish language is required.

AHRC CDP PhD Studentship: Creative Writing and Atlantic Slavery Through Library Collections, UCLan and the British Library

Deadline: 06/05/2024 - UK
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and the British Library are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative Doctoral Studentship from 1 October 2024 under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

Trustees x 3, First Story

Deadline: 28/05/2024 - UK
First Story is looking for three new trustees to join the board. We recently conducted a skills audit, and we are particularly interested in recruiting trustees with marketing and communications experience and knowledge of secondary education and the English curriculum and philanthropy.

Lead Creative Schools Scheme Practitioner Callout - Goetre Primary, Merthyr Tydfil

Deadline: 06/05/2024 - Wales
Goetre Primary is looking for one or more Practitioners to work on a Year 1 LCS Project. Enquiry: Can simple podcasting and spoken word recording open the way to oracy, literacy and the Creative Habits of Mind? Open to any ideas and approaches. Practitioners need not be particularly GarageBand/podcast savvy.

Become a Trustee of the National Association of Writers in Education

Deadline: 01/06/2024 - UK
The Trustees of NAWE are looking for new people to join the NAWE Board of Trustees. NAWE is a not-for-profit company and a Registered Charity, and its activities are overseen by a group of NAWE Members who are Trustees of the organisation.

Lead Writers (2), Creative Writing for Teachers, New Writing North

Deadline: 17/05/2024 - North East England
New Writing North is looking to contract two writers to lead on our Creative Writing for Teachers courses, starting in Autumn 2024.

Trustees, Commonword

Deadline: 31/05/2024 - North West England
We are seeking to appoint new Trustees who have the skills and interests to support us to reach the next stage of Commonword's development.

Contracted Story Builder - Weekends, Discover Children's Story Centre

Deadline: 10/05/2024 - London
Story Builders bring Discover Children's Story Centre to life by telling stories, supporting play on our Story Worlds, helping visitors engage with crafts, stories and immersing them in our exhibitions.

New Forest Writer in Residence, ArtfulScribe

Deadline: 13/05/2024 - South East England
We are looking to appoint a writer in residence to connect the landscape and forest inhabitants with wider audiences through written and spoken word. The residency will be based at the Countryside Education Trust in Beaulieu for 40 days, spread over a calendar year.

Fellowship Opportunity: Writing and Place, Manchester Metropolitan University

Deadline: 29/05/2024 - North West England
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in literature as a medium for exploring and re-imagining human relationships with place and the environment.

Competitions/Submissions

Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize

Deadline: 30/06/2024 - International
As part of its mission as a global Black publishing house connecting Africa and the African diaspora, Cassava Republic Press is proud to announce the launch of our inaugural $20,000 Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize dedicated to exceptional works by Black women (cis, trans and genderqueer).

Spread the Word: Call for submissions from LGBTQIA+ writers for 1-2-1 feedback from FROG literary agency

Deadline: 03/06/2024 - UK
This Spring, Spread the Word is partnering with FROG Literary Agency for our latest 1-2-1 feedback opportunity offering LGBTQIA+ writers the chance to have an extract from their novel or non-fiction book read and given feedback by a literary agent. Black, Asian or Global Majority writers are particularly invited to submit.

Children's Poetry Competition | Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry

Deadline: 19/07/2024 - International
The Morrab Library in Penzance has partnered with The Dennis Myner Trust to host The Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry 2024. The international children’s competition is free to enter.

The Patricia Eschen Prize for Poetry 2024

Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People: Conference 2024 – Call for Proposals

Deadline: 01/07/2024 - International
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People is a gathering-place for the knowledge and research generated by creative writers for young people. We publish practice-led and practice-based work in the field. Our annual conference returns on 24-25 October 2024.

Call for Submissions - Transformer: Writing the Black Country

Deadline: 31/05/2024 - UK
Are you a writer interested in landscape, place and transformation? This new Zer0 Books project is seeking poetry, fiction and essays inspired by and/or set in the Black Country - the once industrial heartland of the UK - for a new anthology of regional literature and culture. Free to submit.

Call for submissions for the Third Space anthology of South Asian poetry

Deadline: 17/05/2024 - International
Submissions invited for the Third Space anthology of South Asian poetry, scheduled for publication with Renard Press in July 2024. Free to submit.

Arvon Advanced Writing Programme: Apply now

Deadline: 24/05/2024 - London
Writers, you have until 12:00 on 24 May to apply for Arvon's first-ever Advanced Writing Programme! The AWP consists of three Arvon Residential Writing Weeks, three Arvon Online Writing Weeks, eight Arvon online group workshops and eight Arvon online 1-1 sessions.

Call for entries from working-class writers for folk horror anthology

Deadline: 16/06/2024 - UK
Hollie Starling and Chatto & Windus are launching a competition for unpublished working-class writers to have their fiction featured in a folk horror anthology. Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror will be published in autumn 2025 by Chatto. All applicants must identify as working class or from a working-class background.

Apples and Snakes: Word’s A Stage 2024: Development programme for young poets - Apply now

Deadline: 24/05/2024 - UK
Word’s A Stage 2024 is Apples and Snakes’ poetic performance development programme aimed at poets aged 21-30. The aim is to bring together emerging talent from this younger demographic to give them the skills and confidence to move forward in their writing and poetry careers.

Playwrights' Studio, Scotland: Brainstorm Café with Sara Shaarawi - Apply now!

Deadline: 22/05/2024 - Scotland
Brainstorm Cafés are back! If you are grappling with a creative problem linked to your play and would like to chat it through over a cuppa, the Brainstorm Café could help.

The Polari Book Prize 2024

Deadline: 06/05/2024 - Republic of Ireland
The Polari Book Prizes, the UK’s book prizes for emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers, are now open for submissions. This year there are three Polari prizes – for a first book, for the book of the year (excluding debuts), and for a Children’s/YA title.

Win a free place on an Arvon Residential Playwriting Week!

Deadline: 03/05/2024 - UK
We are offering a fully-funded place to a writer to join an Arvon Residential Playwriting Week running from 13-18 May 2024.

Verity Bargate Award 2024

Deadline: 17/06/2024 - Republic of Ireland
Sponsored by Character 7, the Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s flagship new writing award with the winning play produced in a full production on our stages.

Climate Spring | The Hot House 2024 - Stories of the Climate Transition

Deadline: 30/06/2024 - International
The Hot House development lab for scripted long form TV and feature film projects is part of Climate Spring’s writer development offering.

International Welsh Poetry Competition 2024

Deadline: 30/06/2024 - International
The Welsh Poetry Competition offers a chance for budding writers and published authors from all over the world to compete on an equal footing and be recognised for their work.

The Plaza Audio Poetry Prize 2024

Deadline: 30/06/2024 - International
The Plaza Prizes is on the lookout for new talents in new digital forms. Writers worldwide are invited to send in their audio poems of up to 4 minutes long, recorded in your own voice on a phone, or by using a free recording programme, like Audacity. Judge: Paul Farley.

The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2024

Deadline: 31/05/2024 - UK
Poems (max 40 lines) written in English are invited for this year's The Frogmore Poetry Prize sponsored by the Frogmore Press. Adjudicator: Graham Mort

The Bedford Competition 2024

Deadline: 31/10/2024 - International
Entries are invited for this year's Short Story Competition - up to 3000 words and Poetry Competition - up to 40 lines. Short Story judge: Liv Maidment. Poetry Judge: Jessica Mookherjee.

Living With Buildings - People/Poetry/Place: Submissions open

Deadline: 31/07/2024 - UK
Living With Buildings is a festival of short films that explore themes of people, poetry and place to understand how we live within the built environment of cities and urban spaces. Submissions are open now on Filmfreeway.

Events

NAWE Member Meet-Up / June 2024 (Online)

Region: International
Our next online NAWE Members Meet-Up on Wednesday 12th June 2024 will be a chance to share updates on our writing work and to find out what other NAWE Members are up to.

Raw Writing Memoir Bootcamp Five-Day Intensive Course (Online - Zoom)

Region: International
Memoir is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous. We can all write about our life. If you’re keen to write your memoir, join me on this five-day course and learn all you need to get started. I’ll cover memory and truth, how to write about other people, setting, structure and more.

Wise stories with Anna Morvern

Region: International
Grandchild of Jewish Hasidism’s founder, Nahman from Uman wrote creative folktales and parables with life guidance. Over a year, we’ll read around/into these wise stories, letting them inspire writing exercises. Sunday evenings, Zoom & WhatsApp, from 2 June 2024, with Anna Morvern.

Deinstitutionalise your writing

Region: International
A workshop for anyone who feels that their writing & relationship with it has been disciplined/harmed/cowed/constricted by institutional encounters: be these via early school experiences, professional mores, parental judgment or any other kind of structural bad vibes.

SciFi and Horror Workshop Series with Sarah Jackson

Region: International
Three affordable online workshops exploring monsters, aliens, and robots in science fiction and horror. Together we'll read extracts from classic and contemporary authors and then use writing games and prompts to create our own vivid and unique creatures, extraterrestrials, and synthetic beings. Come to all three or choose the ones you're most interested in. Join online to find writing ideas and inspiration, try new techniques, and generate story seeds.

The Writers Bureau’s Poetry Club

Region: International
Led by WB’s poetry tutor, Mandy Pannett, members have the chance to explore and develop their poetry writing skills. It is a place to kick-start and develop your poems with constructive feedback from your poetry peers.

Reflect, Reset, Reconnect for Writers

Region: International
Spark ideas and explore new perspectives in this professional development workshop for writers. You’ll get the chance to play with a range of reflective and creative techniques to help support any aspect of your writing life.

Nottingham Trent University Summer School 2024

Region: East Midlands
The creative writing short courses at NTU will introduce you to the ins and outs and twists and turns of putting pen to paper, whether for personal pleasure or professional development.

Poetry School: Poetic Theft: From Inspiration to Transformation with Louis Glazzard

Region: International
A transformative workshop series about harnessing your inspirations to expand your writing.

Professional Writing Academy: Running Writing Workshops with Anne Taylor and Victoria Field

Region: International
Run effective writing workshops. This professional development course provides you with the skills and confidence required to run successful writing workshops.

City Lit: Writing black out poetry with Sarah Westcott

Region: London
Sometimes a poem is shaped by stripping words away. This fun day workshop explores the emerging form of black out poetry. Learn how to find hidden poems in texts such as newspaper articles, advertisements and letters.

Gladstone's Library Masterclass: Archives as Inspiration: a Day with Novelist Sarah Smith

Region: Wales
Do you feel drawn to historical fiction, but don’t know where to start? Are you drawn to your own family history, but baffled about how to go about the task of putting the information together? Then this day masterclass with novelist Sarah Smith is for you.

WordPath Scotland: Focus: Creative Writing Mentoring Day (Online)

Region: International
Have a novel or short story collection that needs that extra push to get it to the finish line? A creative non-fiction or memoir project that you long to see published? Maybe you simply want the focused attention and feedback a Mentoring course offers in order to gain greater confidence and trust in your own work?

Ty Newydd: Food Writing: Experiencing the Self and World Anew with Angela Hui & Rebecca May Johnson

Region: Wales
Join us for this weekend course where you’ll learn to add spice, flavour, and substance to your writing. During the course, you’ll explore different forms of food writing – from memoir to cookbook, from newsletters to journalism.

Moniack Mhor: Nature and Poetry with Alycia Pirmohamed and Genevieve Carver, Guest Reader Tim Tim Cheng

Region: Scotland
Intersections of Experience and Nature: Inspired by the nature around us including the Highland landscapes of Moniack Mhor, we’ll look at how environment, place and wildlife can inform our poetry.

Arvon and Quay Words Fiction Writing Day in Exeter

Region: South West England
Do you have a fiction writing project that needs attention? Perhaps you need some technical help or are curious about navigating the industry in general? Join bestselling writer Clare Chambers and editor Alexa von Hirschberg at Exeter Custom House for an intensive creative writing workshop focused on writing fiction.

Spread the Word: London Writers Network Event: TikTok for Writers

Region: London
Starting out on TikTok or curious to know what it's like to be a BookToker? Join us for an evening on all things TikTok with prize-winning spoken word poet Priyanka Moorjani and debut author Anam Iqbal. These two established BookTokers will share their insights into how they develop content for the app and how you could make the most of it as a reader and a writer.

More The Poetry Business online workshops this summer

Region: International
The Poetry Business has a whole host of exciting online workshops lined up this summer with Greta Stoddart, Romalyn Ante, Jonathan Edwards , River Wolton, Christopher Wakling, Laurie Bolger and many more.

Free tickets! See Anne Michaels deliver the Wanda Barford Memorial Lecture at the RSA

Region: London
Join the Royal Society of Literature on Monday 20 May at 7pm for an unmissable evening with novelist and poet Anne Michaels whose books are translated into more than fifty languages and have won multiple awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Lannan Award for Fiction. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops

Region: London
Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.

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