The University of Liverpool Creative Writing Society for Lifelong Learning - the 2nd Annual Ted Walters International Short Story and Poetry Competition. Deadline 31st May 2008.
They don’t seem to have their own website (I got the full details in a Studio-NI email), but the Write Out Loud blog has them here.
Also, the deadline for the [...]
Saturday, 9th February - Write! Down’s second Wild Geese festival in Strangford (Co. Down); includes free writing workshops with renowned writers Ted Deppe, Kate Newmann and Damian Smyth, readings with featured and local writers; and an evening event of poetry and music at the church in Old Court, Strangford.
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With all the articles about the English language that have been in the last days, I felt I had to post you this link to a Yahoo! Answers discussion thread about English words that no other word rhyme with.
Even though I don’t write much poetry (in french like in english), it’s good to know.
All the talk about words lately has got me thinking. I’m a big fan of ‘words’ in general - I love to read about the English language and the ways in which it has evolved. I also just like to collect unusual words and attempt to use them where possible. So I [...]
I promised Laryskun I’d post these - we talked about them when we met earlier today, so at least we talked about writing even if we didn’t get any done!
This list came from one of the NaNoWriMo sessions at the Seamus Heaney Centre (Queen’s University), from Ian Sansom (who was leading the sessions). They are [...]
I got a pamphlet for Listowel Writers Week in the post this morning. I went to this last year and I have to say it was one of the best things I did. There are a number of workshops on with different writers from Popular Fiction (Denise Deegan) to Song Writing (Glen Hansard from The [...]
Following up on my post about misused, overused and useless words the other day, I spotted an article on the BBC just now about the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year list (for 2007, obviously) - they chart words and phrases that become dominant in a particular year.
The word for 2007 is subprime, as [...]
