The Jan Michalski Foundation’s residency for writers is designed to provide an environment for literary creation and to support those involved in the written word. The Foundation features a group of seven distinctive residential modules that are available for writers and translators invited for residencies of varying lengths of time. Hanging from the openwork “canopy”...
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2 events,Elizabeth Gaskell’s House marked the 10th anniversary of its restoration and opening to the public with a bold new exhibition called I’ve Never Read Elizabeth Gaskell, as part of a project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Three young writers – Georgia Affonso, Princess Arinola Adegbite and Guruleen Kahlo – were awarded inaugural writers’... |
7 events,From the competition website: The 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open. The seventeenth edition of the prize is now open for original entries and entries in translation across Fiction, Life Writing, and Poetry. Enter here. From the competition website: Top prize- £500 Length of story: max 3,000 words Entries should be as a Word document. All types of stories are welcome (excluding Children’s and Young Adult Fiction). Entry Fee: £7.00 (£13 for 2 stories, £18 for 3 stories) Entry fee plus optional critique: £35.00 Winning stories will be published on this... From the competition website: Got a potential page-turner inside you? Then polish up your prose and send your entry to this year’s Short Story Competition. First prize is £750, while second and third-place winners will receive £300 and £200 respectively. There is also a special prize of £100 in the category for best local... From the competition deadline: Theme: WALLS Word Limit: 2000 words (excluding the title) The Brief: Judges are looking for wise choices of vocabulary, well-structured plotting and description, sparkling dialogue, pace and precision. Although the theme is always selected to represent Norwich you are free to interpret this however you see fit. Your story does... The Tukums UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence Programme will be based at Jaunpils Castle in the Tukums region of Latvia. Traditionally published writers, poets, playwrights and screenwriters connected to UNESCO Cities of Literature are invited to apply. The residency will take place in October 2026 and will run for 2-4 weeks. The application deadline is... |
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Shortly after the pandemic lockdown Sara Baume came across a painting in a pop-up exhibition in a renovated West Cork shed. Fascinated by it, she became determined to make the painter’s acquaintance – although a native of North Dakota the artist Mollie Douthit was now living and working in rural Ireland. Bonded by a common...
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