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HighTide calls for submissions from playwrights

Posted by Judy Darley
at July 2, 2009

If you are an emerging playwright eager to get your work performed, the HighTide festival 2010 could be the ideal showcase. Each year HighTide premiere new work at the annual HighTide Festival in Suffolk, providing fantastic opportunities for new creative writing talent. The deadline for submissions is July 31st 2009.

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Cengage Learning seeks Development Editors and Editorial Assistants

Posted by Kathleen Inglis
at July 2, 2009

Cengage Learning is a company dedicated to delivering highly-customised learning solutions for colleges, universities, instructors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. Their office in Andover, UK, has three vacancies in its editorial department: two Development Editor jobs and a temporary Editorial Assistant job.

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Brad Pitt’s baseball film strikes out before first inning due to scriptwriting rows

Posted by Karen Krizanovich
at July 1, 2009

Brad Pitt was days away from filming Steven Soderbergh’s $50m baseball epic Moneyball when Columbia Studio head Amy Pascal pulled the plug. Citing that the script, by Steven Zallian and recently rewritten by Soderbergh, wasn’t what Pascal originally agreed to, Soderbergh has permission to find another studio with which to play ball.

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Screenwriters offered training opportunities in the Midlands

Posted by Judy Darley
at July 1, 2009

Script, the regional development agency for dramatic writers in the West Midlands, aims to help emerging writers to overcome the challenges they face with a new targeted workshop programme, Tenacity. The workshops will give writers the chance to learn new skills and ways of working in a practical, dynamic environment.

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Award-winning short story writer Deborah Kay Davies talks about her passion for procrastination

Posted by Judy Darley
at June 30, 2009

Deborah Kay Davies is a poet and short story writer. Her first short story collection, entitled Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, was published by Parthian Books in 2008. The stories capture the volatile relationship between two sisters, Grace and Tamar, growing up in South Wales. The collection won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2009.

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The Raconteur review

Posted by Judy Darley
at June 30, 2009

This brand new quarterly magazine has a very definite remit: to examine how we live, think and behave in the context of literature, culture and society. The first issue of The Raconteur explores the theme of landscape, offering a wealth of viewpoints from a broad range of writers who seem to have been allowed to interpret the topic however they choose.

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Stuart Wheatman describes about his role as the co-founder of Tonto Books

Posted by Judy Darley
at June 29, 2009

As the second part of our series of interviews with publishers, EssentialWriters.com chats to Stuart Wheatman, the co-founder and managing director of independent publishing house, Tonto Books. Tonto have four books coming out in autumn 2009, including Sheila Quigley’s The Road to Hell.

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Hostelbookers.com have an opening for someone seeking a journalism or editorial job

Posted by Gina Dyer
at June 29, 2009

Are you a graduate in English Literature, Creative Writing or Journalism? Are you actively looking to find a journalism job or an editorial job? If so, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to join a successful, fast paced and award winning on-line travel company Hostelbookers.com as a Junior Content Assistant.

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Frome Festival invites us to see what writers in residence actually do

Posted by Judy Darley
at June 28, 2009

The annual Frome Festival runs from July 3rd to 12th 2009, welcoming a literary, musical and artistic events to the town in Somerset. One of the highlights will be the Writers in Residence event, to be held on Saturday, 4th July. Participating writers have been given a theme or first line to work from, before taking up residence in shops around Frome’s town centre.

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Tonto Books seeks exceptional short stories

Posted by Judy Darley
at June 27, 2009

Tonto Books is seeking submissions of short stories by up and coming writers for a new anthology entitled Even More Tonto Short Stories. This is the company’s third anthology since it launched in 2005 with its first call for submissions, for the book Tonto Short Stories, followed in 2007 by More Tonto Short Stories.

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