York Writers

Kate Atkinson is a well known author from York who moved up to Scotland many years ago. She became well known in York for her book Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a story which follows a few generations of a family living in the centre of town and touches on how it feels like living in a museum when you live in York, but is more a tale about families and their quircks.

I’ve been to see Kate Atkinson myself a long time ago and she is well worth listening to. This event will be at York St John University De Grey Court Lecture Theatre on March 25th 2010 at 7.00 p.m, where she will be in conversation with Dr. Roger Clark of York St John University’s Literature Department, an old teacher of mine.

Tickets can be bought for £5.00 at York Theatre Royal box office on 01904 623568.

12 Poets - Christopher M. Geeson , Harry Bayman, Carole Bromley, Helen Cadbury, Catherine Crocker, Tony Dew, Jacqueline Everett, Will Kemp, Gill Martin, Sara Murphy, Gordon Murray, Vesuvia - will be reading funny, sad and thoughtful poems at York City Screen cinema in the Basement bar at 7.30PM on Thursday 12th March 2009, in association with York Literature Festival. Tickets cost £3 and proceeds will be donated to York Against Cancer.

More information is available from City Screen - 871 704 2054 -  www.picturehouses.co.uk 

Write Angles is a residential writing course run by The Lakes School of Writing. The course runs from Monday 17th November 2008 at 1.45pm to Wednesday 19th at midday and costs £225, which covers your tuition and board and lodging at a farmhouse. The course is open to all styles of writers and covers a wide range of areas, including getting your work published, writing for young children and tips on what sells and what doesn’t.
For more information take a look at www.lakesschool.com

or if the website is still down contact:

Mark Finnie
t: 01908 364 213

or

Alison Hull
t: 07977 670 868

It’s a bit last minute if you didn’t already know about it, but worth a try nevertheless. You have a week from today to get entries in to the Aesthetica Magazine Annual Competition:

1. The competition will accept entries of creative writing (poetry & fiction) as well as artwork and photography.

2. Each section will have one winner that will receive a prize of £500 and a subscription to Aesthetica Magazine

3. The new Aesthetica Annual will be a book that will present winning entries and runners-up in the genres of artwork, poetry and fiction. It will be distributed through Borders stores nationwide.

4. Entry allows the submission of either five images of artwork, three short stories (up to 2000 words each), or five poems (up to 40 lines each).

5. The entry fee for the Aesthetica Annual Creative Works Competition is £10.

6. Deadline for entries is 31 August 2008.

For further information please go to http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm

Aesthetica Magazine will still continue to be published bi-monthly covering visual arts, literature, film, music and theatre all in one issue.  We will still continue to distribute through WH Smith and Borders. However our literature section is evolving and we will be working with major publishers to bring you exclusive excerpts from newly published novels.