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Inscribe Weekender 2019: Writing the Unreal with Leone Ross

  • Interested in an inspiring, intensive, creative writing long weekend?
  • Working on your fiction?
  • Developing your critical and editing skills?
  • Do you want support to boost the crafting of your writing?

Attend Inscribe's residential weekend at Debden House, on the edge of Epping Forest! This is a wonderful opportunity to gather with other writers from around the country, who are your creative peers, to spend an intensive two and a half days on your craft. Be prepared to write out of your comfort zone and share! 

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Rommi Smith wins a Northern Writers Award for Poetry 2019!

We are thrilled to report that Rommi Smith is the winner of a Northern Writers Award for Poetry 2019. 

The Northern Writers’ Awards exist to recognise talent and support new work towards publication or broadcast,. This year 27 writers at different stages of their careers, share £55,000 worth of awards, including mentoring, developmental support and cash awards to buy time to write.

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#UKWritersSurvey: Writers struggling, BAME writers face additional challenges

The Royal Society of Literature has just published its report, A Room of My Own: What writers need to work today (PDF). It makes for depressing reading.

Only 5% of writers earned over £30,000 from their writing in 2018 (equivalent to the £500 per year Virginia Woolf recommended for writers).

13% of all respondents identified as being from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, but we represent only 9% of the highest earners from writing.

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The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival announces Peepal Tree authors Breanne Mc Ivor and Barbara Jenkins in 2019 lineup.

The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Fesival have announced Breanne Mc Ivor and Barbara Jenkins as part of an exciting lineup due to perform at the 3-day event this September. We are delighted that two of our writers have been invited to such a presitigous and important celebration. Aided by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and other key stakeholders, Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival is the first ever literary festival dedicated to Caribbean literature in New York City, from 6th - 8th September, 2019.

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Raynor Winn wins the £10,000 RSL Christopher Bland Prize

Sadly, Barbara Jenkins' novel De Rightest Place didn't win the RSL Christopher Bland Prize, but we're thrilled for author Raynod Winn, who won with her memoir, The Salt Path.

Judge Gillian Slovo (who chaired the prize with fellow judges Sanjeev Bhaskar, Archie Bland and Anne Chisholm) wrote of Barbara's book, 'A warm, funny and unexpected book that makes the reader laugh.'

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An interview with Gordon Rohlehr

“For some time – maybe since the late 1990s-2000s – I have been noting that a cycle of time has been closing,” said Rohlehr. “Cycles of time are always closing, and new ones are always beginning, but I’m talking about my own time – the writers, friends and calypsonians of my time.

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