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Everyone at Inscribe would like to offer our congratulations to Degna Stone on her recent appointment as a poet-in-residence at the Northern Poetry Library.

Inscribe supported writer and SI Leeds Literary Prize-winner Mahsuda Snaith recently wrote on the topic of diversity in publishing at The Writers' Workshop.

Diversity in publishing has been a hot topic in industry for some time, not least because we had a good old yell about it over on Agent Hunter. But, despite some much overdue attention, very little has changed. Publishing was and is a very white, middle-class, metropolitan industry. Yes, it’s very welcoming of women – but black voices? Asian voices? Gay and lesbian voices?

Join the Peepal Tree/Inscribe Readers and Writers group for our next meeting. Following on from his first session, where we looked at early Caribbean literature and its precursors,  Peepal Tree's Managing Editor, Jeremy Poynting will be talking about at the huge explosion of Caribbean writing in the 1960s and 1970s, using lots of examples from both fiction and poetry. The session will be informal, is designed to provoke debate and discussion, and will give you lots of ideas for taking your reading and writing further! 

We're happy to see that Arts Council England is supporting Lynne E. Blackwood as she finishes the manuscript for her novel. Lynne, part of our Inscribe cohort, writes,

Sat 20 Feb 2016 11-4pm
Commonword/Cultureword
No. 3 Planetree House
21-31 Oldham Street
Manchester M1 1JG
(entrance via buzzer marked number 3.)
0161 832 3777
Price: £15 or £12 (concessions & Inscribers)
(Book tickets)

Following on from our last great meeting, led by Khadijah Ibrahiim, we're pleased to announce the Peepal Tree/Inscribe Readers and Writers Group workshop will be led by poet and tutor Malika Booker. Saturday 16th Jan 4.00pm - 6.00pm. 

This session will be full of practical techniques for writers - participants will leave the workshop with a map full of ideas for future work as well as a first draft.

Topic: Writing from life experiences.

Great turn out on Sunday for the Peepal Tree/Inscribe Readers and Writers Group workshop! No amount of rain stopped the creative energy in that room! There was a common thread of shared experiences, the urge to write stories and to be heard!! Round the table / Hearts opened, pens were put to paper' written work shared! rekindled emotions through family love, loss n birth, historical narratives, finding ones feet/place/voice, praise poems n elegies...

Thanks to Inscribe and the London Short Story Festival Free Ticket Scheme I was able to attend what was an inspiring and encouraging event with short story writers from all over the world, reading their work, sharing their ideas and skills and debating the role of the short story in literary fiction today.

Cathy Galvin talks about the Closure Anthology

Inscribe Series Editor, Kadija Sesay and internationally renowned and award winning poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes are looking for submissions for a new anthology of contemporary Black British poetry. The theme they have chosen for this exciting new anthology is ‘Filigree’.