NEW WRITING SOUTH WRITERS’ PROGRAMME AUTUMN 2012/ SPRING 2013
CONTENTS New Writing South is the new writing development agency for the south east region. Our community embraces professional and emerging writers, and those just starting out. It includes authors, playwrights, poets, radio writers, scriptwriters and more. We seek out talent, encourage ambition and provide creative and career development for emerging and early career writers, and work in innovative and creative ways with established professional writers. We support emerging writers with workshops, feedback, mentoring, networking, bursaries and advice, and work with professional writers offering networking, promotion and employment. New Writing South is committed to excellence and works in partnership with other arts organisations, universities, libraries, local authorities, schools and community groups in helping to develop the new writers of tomorrow. www.newwritingsouth.com
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- New courses with the Centre for Creative Writing at New Writing South - Developing writing skills 2012-2013 - Creative writing programme 2012-2014 - Creative writing programme 2012-2014 (year 2) - Advanced writing workshop 2012-2013 - Dramatic writing programme 2012-2013 - Writing poetry 2012-2013 - Faber Academy - Writing for TV with Jenny Lecoat - Writing Successful Sitcom - Writing Television Drama - Writing Television Drama Extension Course - Playwrighting Masterclasses - Making A Soup: A Course Of Life Writing - Writer’s Retreat And Refuelling Pit Stop - Finding Creative Work In New Settings - Arts Awards Workshop - Writer Industry Days - Experiments With Live Literature - Tell Me A Story - Meet The Makers - Come Rhyme With Me - New Writing South Presents...An Evening With Naomi Wolf - New Writing South Presents...Jon Ronson - How Creative Learning Can Work With You - Young Writers Squad - Writer Guide And Mentoring Services - Writer Hubs / Script Reading Service - Join Us - The Writers’ Place www.newwritingsouth.com
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New courses with the Centre for Creative Writing at New Writing South The highly successful Creative Writing Programme has moved from the University of Sussex to The Writers’ Place in Brighton, with New Writing South. The courses are run by a team of writers, with years of experience teaching creative writing, an extensive knowledge of the publishing world and a professional commitment to you – the developing writer – to help realise your potential. Writers who have come through the programme have gone on to be published, to win or be shortlisted for regional or national awards and competitions - including the Booker Prize - and to establish themselves as successful writers. Some go on to pursue writing as a career, others are satisfied with the intrinsic pleasure that writing well and appreciating good literature can offer them. Whether you want to write for pleasure or profit, the Centre for Creative Education’s writing programmes offers the opportunity to take your writing to the highest levels.
DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS 2012-2013
Tutor: John McCullough
This course is for people who want to improve their confidence and skills in creative writing. Explore a variety of approaches to writing, spark the imagination, develop a sense of style, and discover your individual writing voice. The course will encourage you to experiment with autobiography as well as poetry and prose writing. The work of published authors will be read and discussed to provide inspiration and examples of good technique. The group will look at ways of developing their skills in particular areas such as the creation and development of fictional characters, writing dialogue and structuring poetry and prose pieces. You will be encouraged to exchange feedback and will learn to edit your work for a wider readership. Suitable both for beginners and for those with some experience of writing fiction and poetry.
Length: 20 sessions Time: Thursdays, 10.30am to 12.30pm Date: 4 October 2012 Fee: £350 Location: The Writers’ Place 4
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Creative Writing Programme 2012/14
Tutor: Mark Slater, Susannah Waters and Catherine Smith This in-depth two year course will take you through the entire process of creative writing from idea to a completed project. The programme has been carefully designed to develop your understanding of the craft of writing, to provide you with the support and structure you need to push your skills to another level and to complete a planned writing project. Whether it is a novel or collection of short stories, autobiography or family history, your course tutors will teach writing techniques, offer focused written feedback and help you set realistic deadlines. This course will develop your confidence and ability as a writer. Through discussion and experimentation, in practical work guided by your tutor, you will learn how to improve the quality of your writing; develop your creative and critical skills; organise and manage your work and develop a strong individual style. The programme is supported by an internet learning site where you will have access to notes and summaries of seminars and a Writer’s Forum in which you can post your work, read the work of other writers in your group, share information and contact your tutor.
Length: 2 years Time: Wednesday mornings 10am to 12.30pm (1st Year) Dates: Course starts 3 October 2012 Fee: £950 per annum (£850 concessions) Location: The Writers’ Place 6
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Mark Slater
Susannah Waters
Catherine Smith
In the second year of the creative writing programme you will learn from the work of writers that inspire you. You will study characterisation, theme, plot and the development of dramatic tension, and how to structure and manage longer writing projects. At the end there will be an Agents Day, for which you will prepare a synopsis and an extract of your work to discuss with a visiting literary agent. By the end of the year you will have significantly increased your understanding of how to write good fiction and have developed a substantial body of work.
creative writing programme (year 2) There are limited places available on the second year of the Creative Writing Programme in 2012-13. If you have experience of working in writing groups or have studied writing at university level these courses will help you manage and develop your work in progress. For further information call Mark Slater on: 07774564685 or email, markslater@caburn.wanadoo.co.uk
Length: 1 year Time: Tuesdays 10am - 12.30pm or Tuesday evenings 6.30pm - 9pm. Date: Course starts 2 October 2012 Location: The Writers’ Place www.newwritingsouth.com
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Advanced Writing Workshops 2012-2013
Dramatic Writing Programme 2012-2013
Catherine Smith
Tutor: Catherine Smith or Susannah Waters
Tutor: Mark Wheatley and Julie Everton
Designed for former students from undergraduate and masters creative writing programmes who want to continue exploring their professional practice, writing technique and style in practical sessions.
Learn how to write scripts for stage, radio, film and television with this prestigious course on dramatic writing. By the end of the year you will have
Every month the groups will explore and discuss aspects of writing technique. These sessions will be run by the writing tutor, though there will be opportunities for writers to present work, ideas and practical exercises.
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The emphasis will be on practical writing in the class as well as opportunities to review and discuss work in progress. You will be given further writing exercises after each session to develop your understanding of the key areas of technique studied. The format is designed to be flexible and to allow writers in the group to suggest potential topics as the course progresses.
Mark Wheatley
a strong working knowledge of scriptwriting technique written a script for TV, stage or film had your work critically reviewed a deeper insight into professional practice worked with professional writers.
In the autumn, you will be taught how to format scripts, and work creatively within them. In the spring, we will focus on screenwriting and the art of storytelling in filmic and episodic forms. By summer, you will take a piece of work from the first two terms and, through reading and discussion in script workshops, develop into a second draft. At the end of the summer term there will be a showcase of readings of students’ work.
Length: 1 year Time: Monday evenings 6pm - 9pm or Saturday mornings 10am - 1pm or Saturday afternoons 1pm - 4pm Date: From 1 October 2012 Fee: £285 per annum Location: The Writers’ Place 8
Length: 1 year Time: 1pm to 3.30pm Date: Starts 2 October 2012 Fee: £500 Location: The Writers’ Place 01273 735353
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Writing Poetry 2012-2013
Faber Academy
Writing a Novel with Tim Lott and Louise Wener - at The Writers’ Place
Tutor: John McCullough
Enjoy the beauty of words as you develop your skills as a poet with this intensive course on the art of writing poetry. This course, run by published poet John McCullough, will look at a range of poetic techniques such as compression, imagery, texture, line breaks, traditional forms, rhyme and metre. As well as considering practical aspects of writing technique, you will be encouraged to bring in your own poetry for constructive feedback from your tutor and fellow writers. In addition, each week you will study and learn writing strategies by looking at both twentieth century and contemporary poets. Writers on this course will be assumed to be writing with a mind to eventual publication and the importance of analysing and catering to different markets will be discussed.
The aim is simple - to give you the tools and support you need to write the first draft of your novel. Benefit from the structure of weekly evening workshops and monthly full-day sessions covering everything from the first conception of an idea through to getting words on a page, narrative structure and style and re-writing. Learn from our experienced Course Directors, acclaimed authors Tim Lott and Louise Wener, as well as guest novelists, editors and agents. This is a flexible alternative to a creative writing MA. It is for people who might be considering a career and who are prepared to engage fully in the hard work involved to get it done. Apart from the workshops, you will be devoting as much time as possible between classes to writing, presenting that work to your class of 15 committed novelists and getting their feedback. To find out if ‘Writing a Novel’ is right for you, call Ian on 0207 927 3827 or email iane@faber.co.uk, www.faberacademy.co.uk 10% discount for NWS members. Quote offer when booking.
Length: 6 months Time: Wednesday 7pm - 9pm and 6 full day Saturday sessions. Date: Starts 10 October 2012 Fee: £3500 Location: The Writers’ Place
Length: 20 sessions Time: Monday mornings 10.30am to 12.30pm Date: Starts 1 October 2012 Location: The Writers’ Place, 9 Jew Street, Brighton Fee: £350 10
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Writing FOR TV with Jenny Lecoat
Writing Television Drama Get to grips with the tools you need to write a successful television drama series.
Jenny is an ex-stand up comic with 18 years experience as a professional TV and screenwriter. She has written for EastEnders, Holby City, Birds of a Feather, Dangerfield, Tracy Beaker and The Catherine Tate Show. “Her knowledge of the industry and expertise in putting together published scripts provides a solid backdrop to an excellent course” Tamsin, Spring 2012 student.
Writing successful sitcom Want to write your own TV sitcom but don’t know where to begin? Ever started one but got stuck halfway? Do you feel you have the potential to ‘write funny’ but can’t get a handle on the format? Then this is the course for you. Taking you from initial concept to first draft, this course reveals the secrets of this tricky small screen format, from character building and story structure to dialogue and presentation. Built-in writing breaks between sessions provide the opportunity to complete the course with a calling-card script of your own.
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This exciting 8-week course is designed to help you find and develop your own story and explore the art of screenwriting – creating a world, building great characters, developing a story structure and writing your own script - supported by professional comedy and drama writer, Jenny Lecoat. There will also be opportunities to see professional actors improvise with your ideas and perform a reading of the finished product – along with tips on how to pitch and sell it.
Length: 8 weeks Time: Thursday evenings Dates: January 7 - April 18 2013 Fee: £160 Location: The Writers’ Place
Writing Television Drama Extension course Do you have a television drama script which is half finished, stuck at a first draft stage, or a new idea which you want to develop with a whole new approach? For writers who have already taken Jenny’s TV drama course, this is an opportunity for more advanced and intensive script development within a smaller group. By application only.
Length: 6 monthly sessions Time: 10am - 12.30pm Dates: Starts 13 October 2012 - 2013 Fee: £240 Location: The Writers’ Place
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Playwrighting masterclasses with Ola Animashawun
Making Soup: Course of Life Writing
Explore the disciplines of structure, dialogue, character and re-drafting with these essential workshops for dramatists.
Following the metaphor of making a pan of soup, this is an emotionally nurturing and creatively nutritional, six-week menu of therapeutic life writing, for beginners and experts alike.
Life story giving you (creative) indigestion?
Ola has 25 years experience of working in theatre, with 15 years specialist experience in the field of playwriting workshops and script development. Ola was the founder of the Royal Court’s famous Young Writers Programme. Further to directing it for 10 years, he currently leads two of the three introductory writing courses offered by the Royal Court Studio, alongside programmes in Brighton, Birmingham and Coventry.
Each week we will graze, guzzle and relish the banquet of your life story, memoir or autobiography, straining out the gristle… well, you get the picture. Sandy Hutchinson Nunns BA MA ATAP FIfL MBACP (accred.) is a psychotherapist, therapeutic life writer and teacher living and working in Brighton, where she has a psychotherapy practice. As well as facilitating therapeutic writing courses and general psychology workshops she grows great garlic and reads and writes fantasy instead of doing housework.
Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm Dates: 17 September 2012- Structure 12 November 2012- Dialogue 18 Feb 2013- Character 18 March 2013- Re-Drafting Fee: £25 per Masterclass Special offer – Book all four workshops for the price of three. “Ola Animashawun is blessed of a wisdom that arrives like happiness itself ... He has been the Royal Court’s secret weapon for years.” Jeanie O’Hare, Literary Manager, Royal Shakespeare Company
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Length: 6 sessions Time: 1.30pm - 3.30pm Date: Starts Wednesday 10 October 2012 Fee: £100 Location: The Writers’ Place www.newwritingsouth.com
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Writers’ Retreat and Refuelling Pit Stop
Finding creative work in new settings
Treat yourself. Join us in the historic village of Alfriston, at Dean’s Place, a fourteenth century country house hotel, for an inspirational writing break in the glorious Sussex countryside.
Inroads Productions and NWS have a series of workshops aimed at helping artists develop their skills in working community settings such as education, health, criminal justice, business, youth work, museums and galleries.
Led by Sarah Clifford
Led by experienced writing tutor Vanessa Gebbie, the programme includes a series of optional writing workshops to challenge and inspire, a visit from a top literary agent and a dinner in the company of a special guest who will give us an insight into the publishing world. There will be literary walks though glorious meadows and woods, time for reflection and much more. There will also be time for your own writing, browsing or exploring. At the heart of your creative weekend are workshops with Vanessa Gebbie, an experienced teacher and writer of short fiction, that will stimulate and help you on your writing journey.
Half-day sessions 10am – 1pm Dates: 26 October 2012 - Working with prisoners and ex-offenders 23 November 2012 - Working in health settings: hospitals, hospices, and mental health groups 25 January 2013 - Working with Intergenerational groups: children and young people working with groups of elders 1 March 2013 - Working with heritage and cultural organisations Full day 10am – 4pm How to manage your career and still have money to feed the cat.
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Dates: 26 – 28 October 2012 Fee: from £245 to £435 dependent on accommodation booked. A 30% deposit will secure your place. Location: Dean’s Place, Alfriston, East Sussex. 16
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Saturday 22 March £45 for one session, £80 for two sessions and/or the full project management day
Fee: £40 per session or £120 for all four Location: The Writers’ Place, 9 Jew Street, Brighton In partnership with: inroads productions Inroads participatory arts and professional development. www.newwritingsouth.com
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Arts Award Adviser Training
Writer Industry Days
Arts Award aspires to support any young person to enjoy the arts and develop creative leadership skills whilst providing them with a nationally recognised qualification.
These highly popular all-day events offer writers the chance to meet an exciting array of literary managers, directors, literary agents, publishers, producers and professional development guides. The aim is to help you understand more about the industry, develop your craft, and to help get your work out into the world.
If you work with children and young people and the arts/culture, find out how to qualify as an Arts Award Adviser, enabling you to offer effective support while working towards their Award at one of five levels. One day workshop Fee: Bronze/Silver, £145 - supporting young people (11+) to achieve at Bronze or Silver level. Date: 16 August 2012
Our first event this year will be the Playwrights Industry Day, a fantastic opportunity for screen and stage writers to meet professionals from the West End, local theatres and drama producers. We will be announcing more industry days in the future. Follow us on Facebook or visit our website www.newwritingsouth.com
Half-day workshops Fee: Discover and Explore, £110 - for those wishing to support children 7+ at the two new levels. Dates: 25 September 2012, 14 November 2012, 7 December 2012 Gold Top-up Fee: £95 - for trained Bronze & Silver Arts Award advisers who want to extend their knowledge and skills to run Gold. Dates: 11 October 2012, 4 April 2013 To book or for more information visit www.artsaward.org.uk and visit the book a training page. Run by Culture Shift www.cultureshift.org.uk with support from New Writing South.
Dates: 3 November 2012 Fee: £40 Location: Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UG.
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Experiments with Live Literature
Tell me a story
Create your own distinctive live literature piece, beginning with a text and developing it to be presented in front of an audience.
Get involved with the exciting spoken-word world by learning how to perform your work on stage.
There has been an explosion of shows by writers, and ‘live literature’ events. This course explores possibilities for presenting and evolving your work to appear in a fresh content.
This practical course is aimed at all writers who want their work performed at a major event.
Two day workshop let by White Rabbit
How to make work - Led by Mark Hewitt
This is not a writing course, although texts can be developed as part of the working process. Most forms of writing will work, from poetry to fiction to non-fiction to memoir — even a collection of correspondence or found text.
Run by White Rabbit, who host highly successful story-telling nights, they will help participants create a short story for performance exploring techniques adapted from devised theatre for creative writers. The stories will be given an informal performance on the second Sunday.
The sessions will culminate in a day of workshops and showing of work in progress at The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
White Rabbit has presented storytelling variety night Are You Sitting Comfortably? since 2008, showcasing over 200 new writers.
In partnership with Lewes Live Lit and The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
Length: 7 weeks plus 1 day session Time: Thursday evenings 7 week course plus 1 day session 6.30pm to 9pm Dates: Starts 27 September 2012 Location: The Writers’ Place and The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton.
Length: 2 one-day workshops plus performance Time: 11am - 4pm Informal performance at 4pm on 30 September Date: Sunday 23 September 2012 Sunday 30 September 2012 Fee: £120 Location: The Writers’ Place
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Meet the makers
Come Rhyme with Me Tim Crouch
We introduce a series of monthly salons encouraging writers to challenge themselves and their ideas of what contemporary drama can be.
Enjoy a night of rhyming and rice and peas with a set menu of performers chosen for their wit, wisdom and ability to move you.
The line between stage play and performance art has become ever blurrier, while dramatic events increasingly escape theatre spaces – with venues, companies, festivals and audiences open to every imaginable kind of experience.
Dean Atta and Deanna Rodgers bring their popular Come Rhyme With Me poetry and supper evenings to New Writing South.
We present acclaimed theatre-makers from both the leading edge and the deeper overlap to talk over their own work, experiences and feelings for the future. Rather than a lecture, we’re looking to host conversations – so consider yourself invited for peer-to-peer exchanges in an intimate setting.
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18 October 2012: Andy Field, co-director of Edinburgh-based Forest Fringe who find imaginative ways to connect the innovative performance artists and theatre-makers with new audiences, new supporters and new contexts for their work. 15 November 2012: Tim Crouch, actor, writer and producer, has recently adapted King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew for the RSC and worked for The National Theatre and the Royal Court.
Dean Atta became a surprise YouTube star when his poem, I’m Nobody’s N****r, dedicated to murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, went viral with over 30,000 hits. He has been running the highly successful spoken word Come Rhyme With Me in London and is now bringing the monthly event to Brighton at the Writers’ Place. Each evening will have a distinctly relaxed Caribbean feel with a delicious supper served up by tasty caterers Cummin Up, a bar and special guest poets hand-picked by Dean. There will also be an open mic at the start of each evening.
Fee: £5 ticket Location: The Writers’ Place, 9-10 Jew Street, Brighton, BN1 1UT
Dates: 7 Sept, 5 Oct, 2 Nov, 7 Dec 2012, 4 Jan, 1 Feb 2013 Time: Doors open at 7.30pm Fee: Tickets cost £12.50 /£10 concessions to include the food. Tickets with food must be purchased in advance. £7.50/£5 without food. Location: The Writers’ Place, 9-10 Jew Street, Brighton, BN1 1UT
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New Writing South presents... An Evening with
Naomi Wolf
Jon Ronson
New Writing South are thrilled to present feminist icon and author Naomi Wolf discussing her new biography, the controversial Vagina.
Jon Ronson talks about his latest collection of mini-adventure stories, Lost At Sea.
A provocative, deeply engaging book, it elucidates the ties between a woman’s experience of her vagina and her sense of self, her impulses, dreams, and courage, and her roles in love and in society, in completely new and revelatory ways, sure to provoke impassioned conversation.
Fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind, he has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected from various sources including the Guardian and GQ America are the best of his adventures.
In one of her few appearances in the UK, the author of the Beauty Myth will talk about writing Vagina and the ensuing controversy, her feminist journey and her writing ethic.
Frequently hilarious, sometimes disturbing, always entertaining, these compelling encounters with people on the edge of madness, Jon will discuss his articles, the people he has met and his unique style of interviewing. Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of three bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness.
Date: Friday 7 September 2012 Time: 7:30pm Location: Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome Fee: £12 Book through Pavilion Theatre Box Office at www.brightondome.org
Date: Sunday 7 October 2012 Time: 2.30pm Location: Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome Fee: £12
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How Creative Learning can work with you
Young Writers Squads
Our work in schools, places of work and in all kinds of communities sparks imaginations, encourages creative thinking and gets both young people and adults writing with vigour and enthusiasm.
Writers Squads are New Writing South’s flagship project to support the development of young writers across the south east.
New Writing South’s Creative Learning Team is unique, consisting of an unrivalled selection of writers across all genres. The team includes authors, playwrights, performance poets, rappers, comedians, storytellers, and scriptwriters working in film, television and radio. All of our team members have an enhanced CRB, many are qualified Arts Award advisors and everyone is highly trained and has extensive experience of working with young people. The team works regularly in schools, youth centres, libraries, arts festivals and specially created projects. If you require further information about our Creative Learning Team, please contact Anna Jefferson, Creative Learning Manager at Creative Learning at anna@newwritingsouth.com
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Supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the squads are run by professional writers from New Writing South’s Creative Learning Team. Open to enthusiastic young writers aged 13-17, Writers Squads take place at partnership venues in four locations; New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth, The Berry Theatre, Hedge End, Turner Contemporary, Margate and The School Creative Centre, Rye. By exploring a range of creative writing, from poetry to playwriting and lyrics to flash fiction, the squads introduce young writers to a wide variety of writing styles whilst supporting the development of young writers in the region. If you require further information about our Writers Squads then please contact Anna Jefferson, Creative Learning Manager at Creative Learning at anna@newwritingsouth.com
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Writer Hubs
Writer Guide and Mentoring Services Writer Guide is a professional development one-off service that enables you to invest in yourself. It helps you to look at where you are, define your goals and ambitions and plan a route to fulfilling them. It’s like a one-to-one satnav for writers. Writer Guide aims to: reflect on what you have achieved so far examine your goals, interests and choices discuss what you want to achieve, and when identify obstacles and achieve clarity to work through them regain and maintain self-confidence create a plan of action to achieve your goals
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Writer Mentors offer expertise and experience in order to support and guide emerging or established writers, often during a crucial time of their professional career or on a specific project. Our mentoring service will help you locate and find exactly the right mentor for you. The service is designed to broker your contract, advise you on fundraising, monitor the process and support the relationship throughout. Mentoring can last up to nine months, during which time you meet your mentor five or six times. For more information on our WriterGuide and mentoring services, visit our website or call us.
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Writer Hubs is a network of regular meetings for members and other creative writers in venues throughout the region. Working with partner venues, Writer Hubs offer the chance to informally meet other writers, including guest speakers. Each hub plans and curate its own events supported by New Writing South and hub partners. All writers are welcome to attend.
Writer Hub locations: Hampshire Hub – The Berry Theatre, Hedge End Rye Hub – The School Creative Centre, Rye Portsmouth Hub – New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth For more information on Writer Hubs and meeting dates, visit our website.
Script Reading Service Writers normally only get one shot at attracting the attention of a company or producer, so it’s essential that your script is as good as it can possibly be. Our competitive script reading service provides an opportunity to get professional and objective feedback on your script prior to sending it out into the world. Our script readers are independent, recommended by agencies including: The BBC, New Writing Initiative, Soho and Bush Theatres, and have read for Paines Plough, The Royal Court, Channel 4, UK Film Council and Arvon, amongst others. Reports usually take around four to six weeks. Your script may be recommended for further development such as mentoring or a rehearsed reading. For more information on this service, visit our website. www.newwritingsouth.com
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JOIN US
THE WRITERS’ PLACE
New Writing South’s membership scheme is for everyone involved in creative writing in the south east, whether you’re a professional, emerging or aspiring writer. We exist for our members and your membership helps us with everything that we do.
The Writers’ Place is our workshop and meeting space, conveniently located at New Writing South’s offices in the heart of Brighton’s cultural quarter, within walking distance of shops, bars, restaurants and main transport links.
Membership provides access to a wide range of writer services including: 1:1 advice, script and manuscript assessment, career advice and mentoring. Members also receive advance notice of our programme of professional workshops, creative events and writing opportunities. Each member has an online writer profile page in our directory of south east writers, free entry to our Writer Hub professional network, and a fortnightly enews bulletin that keeps you up-to-date with relevant news and writing opportunities.
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Whether you are looking to plan a creative workshop or informal training sessions, or hold a meeting, you will benefit from a flexible, private space to suit your requirements. The room holds up to 23 people theatre style, or up to 16 people workshop style and is available for individuals, groups and organisations to hire. Call 01273 735353 or email us at admin@newwritingsouth.com The Writers’ Place, 9 Jew Street, Brighton, BN1 1UT
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