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East 15 Acting School are looking for a new play to stage as part of their BA Acting final-year showcases . The series will include a new play written and directed by Anthony Clark, former Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre, and a new play from The Royal Court writers group, directed by Lucy Skilbeck.
More information on their website.
Closing date 30 January 2013.
Theatre Royal Stratford East in association with Team Angelica are looking for script submissions for the third season of Angelic Tales.
http://www.stratfordeast.com/angelic-tales-submissions
Closing date 21 December 2012.
The Poetry School has announced the launch of a brand new pamphlet competition, in association with Pighog Press.
Judged by Brendan Cleary and Julia Bird.
Closing date 31 January 2013.
Digital-only publisher Dead Ink (supported by the Arts Council of England) is looking submissions for a new Quarterly periodical of new writing to be distributed as an app.
A first English adaptation by MSt in Creative Writing student Henry Little.
9.30 pm Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th November at the Burton Taylor Studio.
Tickets £6/£5 concessions
Tickets through: http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/btsstudent/#bts3335
Or call: 01865 305305
Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing
Michaelmas Term Week 7:
Tuesday 20 November 2012
4.45pm (refreshments) for 5.15pm
Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
Sam Thompson:
“Writing a Mosaic Novel: Linked Stories, Shifting Genres and Multiple Viewpoints in Fiction”
Sam Thompson is a fiction writer, reviewer and tutor. His novel, Communion Town (Fourth Estate, 2012), was longlisted for the Booker Prize. He has written for publications including the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the Guardian. He is a Lecturer in English at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and tutor on the Master of Studies in Creative Writing.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
Howard Jacobson in conversation with MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams
Mosaic presents
Howard Jacobson
in conversation with Rebecca Abrams
at
Oxford Jewish Centre
21 Richmond Rd
Oxford OX1 2JL
on
Sat November 10th 2012 at 19.30
tickets paid in advance: £5 for OJC members, £7 non-members
tickets on the door £7
enquiries: mosaic@ojc-online.org
OJC mobile 07525 785 200
Open for submissions from October to December annually.The Munster Literature Centre is a not-for-profit organisation; all moneys raised from the competition benefits writers and writing.
1st Prize €1000, publication in Southword and a trip to Cork, Ireland*.
2nd Prize €500 & publication in Southword
3rd Prize €250 & publication in Southword
See website for more information.
“Friday 9 November, The North Wall, St Edwards School, Oxford
7.30pm Sam Willetts and Robin Robertson (£8)
Saturday 10 November, Woodstock Methodist Church
4pm David Harsent (£8)
6.30pm Gillian Clarke (£8)
8.30pm New Libertines (£4)
These are the performing poets:
Sian S Rathore, editor in chief of Sadcore Dadwave
Paul Askew, editor of Ferment Magazine
Anna Hobson, poetry MC for Oxford Pride and Oxford International Women’s Festival
Anna McCrory, President of Oxford University Poetry Society
Kate Walton, Warwick Words slam champiom
Anna Percy, host of Stirred Poetry
James Purcell Webster, the king of text poetry
Laila Sumpton, Keats house
Tina Sederholm, 2010 Oxford Hammer and Tongue slam champion
Fay Roberts, host of Hammer and Tongue Cambridge and Allographic
Claire Trevien, Salt Modern Voices and editor-in-chief of Sabotage Reviews
Pat Winslow, published by Templar Poetry
Sunday 11 November, Woodstock Methodist Church
4 pm Kirtlington Poetry Group, (£4)
6.30pm Jamie McKendrick, Jane Draycott and Bernard O’Donoghue, (£8)
Rachel Phipps
The Woodstock Bookshop
23 Oxford Street
Woodstock OX20 1TH
01993 812760
Tickets for all events, including November 9 at St Edward’s North Wall, must be booked from The Woodstock Bookshop (01992 812760 or info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk<mailto:info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk>) . Most events are £8 each – we are also doing a festival ticket covering Saturday and Sunday for only £20 (all events are free to students). Details below, and on our website (www.woodstockbookshop.co.uk).”
Come To Where I’m From
1st November. Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham. 7.30
The leading new writing company Paines Plough is asking playwrights from across the UK to write plays about the places they grew up. In villages and towns and cities, these plays will be performed by the writers themselves.
In this special one-off performance at Parabola Arts Centre, playwrights from Gloucestershire come home to tell their tale. Come To Where I’m From will result in a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home really is where the heart is.
BOX OFFICE: 01242 707 338 / WWW.PARABOLAARTSCENTRE.CO.UK
The writers from Gloucestershire are:
Alice Jolly
Lucy Tyler
Katherine Mitchell
Steven Deproost
For tickets, contact the box office:
01242 707 338 / www.parabolaartscentre.co.uk