NEW ANGLE PRIZE SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

The judges’ for the 2023 New Angle Prize, for literature associated with or influenced by the region of East Anglia, have selected their shortlist of six, from which the £2,000 winner will be chosen, with £500 for a runner-up.

The themes throughout the shortlist are diverse and varied: social breakdown and isolation, folk songs, persecution, time travel and local legends. The judges have chosen three novels; The Bewitching by Jill Dawson, Wivenhoe by Samuel Fisher and The Other Side of the Whale Road by K.A. Hayton; a volume of poetry with Nicola Warwick’s Naming the Land; and two non-fiction works, The Captain’s Apprentice; Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song, by Caroline Davison and Shorelines: Voices of Southwold Fishermen by Robert Jellicoe. (More details below).

The competition is organised by the Ipswich Institute in partnership with the University of Suffolk and the Suffolk Book League, is kindly sponsored by Scrutton Bland and is an important feature of the region’s literary calendar.

Tickets will soon be available for The Shortlist Showcase, at 6.30pm on Wednesday 24th May, an event at which the shortlisted authors will be asked to read from and discuss their works and regional influences. Prize-winners will be announced at an Awards Dinner on Thursday 21st September to be held at Hintlesham Golf Club, Suffolk.

• Details will be available on the Ipswich Institute website, www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk and you can follow the prize on Twitter @PrizeNewAngle the work schedule whilst this critical part of the ship was replaced before the planking of the hull could begin.

Planking the hull is now underway and will occupy the skilled volunteer workforce for most of 2023 to complete the cleaving, hewing and riveting of approximately 90 planks for the hull.

The rivets being used are accurate replicas of the iron rivets found during the archaeological excavations by Basil Brown in 1939 of Sutton Hoo Mound 1, as retold in the recent film The Dig.

There is now a fantastic replica of the helmet discovered in the ship burial, on display in the Longshed, which is on long-term loan from Gallagher Insurance in Ipswich.

The ship is being built in The Longshed on the Woodbridge Waterfront, near the Tide Mill. It is open to the public so do pop in and see the ship taking shape.

The ship is being built by the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company which is a group of volunteers who rely on donations to cover essential costs.

Please go along to see this local project which is of national and international significance and if you can, please help by sponsoring or donating to the project.

For more information visit the website at www.saxonship.org

Pics: Andy Mills

Hop on down to Felixstowe Museum this Easter!

The hugely popular Easter Egg Hunt is back at the award-winning Felixstowe Museum on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th April 2023. Tickets will sell out for this family event… where children can hunt for the coloured eggs hidden around the Museum, then exchange them