Category: Writing
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Call for Poetry & Short Fiction Entries:Aesthetica Creative Writing Award
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is one of the main awards in the UK for new writing talent. It is an outlet for expression and a platform for poets and authors across the world to showcase their work through £5,000 prize money, publication and wide exposure through the Aesthetica networks. They are looking for pieces…
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Writer in Residence Opportunity
In partnership with Sittingbourne’s Steam Railway, Ideas Test is seeking a dynamic and engaging writer to become their Writer in Residence for a year-long commission celebrating the rich history and vibrant present of this beloved heritage railway. This exciting opportunity coincides with significant milestones: the 200th anniversary of the railway’s…
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The People’s Poem for Peace
Medway libraries are curating the People’s Poem for Peace. The poem is being created to commemorate VE day, which marked the end of World War 2 in Europe on 8th May 1945. They are asking the people who live, work, or study in Medway to participate in creating this poem…
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Unspeakable: Poetry Launch at the Medway Women’s History Month Finale
“In the beginning is the hearing”, Mary Daly The Rochester Literature Festival and Medway Women’s History Month team are proud to announce the long-awaited launch of Unspeakable, the poetry collaboration between Chatham born SM Jenkin, and International writer and multi-disciplinary artist Rosemary McLeish. SM Jenkin says: “This pamphlet arose from…
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A Mini Murderous Medway
March 2025 is going to be busy, so brace yourselves! We’re holding a series of events to mark Women’s History Month, and one of them is a Murderous Medway Production. ‘Her Majesty The Queen Investigates’ author S J Bennett: In Conversation will take place at the Salvation Army Hall in…
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Murderous Medway Panel 1 – Location, Location, Location
21st September 2019 Elly Griffiths, William Shaw and Lesley Thomson discuss the settings of their novels and how a place can become just as much a character as the heroes.
Rochester Literature Festival 