Co-op Writers York Workshop

Contact: adriantellwright@gmail.com

Dear Scribblers,
In June we are NOT meeting on the first Sunday, next Sunday, but the second Sunday, 9th, as I am meant to be at a conference in Florence in Italy on 2nd June.
There will be no special guests giving presentations of their work. The whole workshop will be dedicated to any work you want to air and share or work that is causing you problems.
Just bring your scribblings and musical jottings and/or yourself to The Eagle & Chlid pub on High Petergate between 5.30 and 8.30 pm.
As usual please bring 3 or 4 copies of your work or an excerpt of not more than 2,000 words or four sides of A4 and £2 if you're a wage-earner, otherwise £1.
Secondly, I'm posting some information, below, about two competitions with a deadline falling in (1) late June and (2) mid-July.
(1) Queen Mary Wasafiri is for new writing in fiction, poetry and life writing.
(2) Ledbury Poetry Competition is for poetry only.
The workshop offers an opportunity for you to try out and receive feedback on something you may wish to enter for one or both of these competitions. You will have a second opportunity to air and receive feedback on your work if you're interested in entering the Ledbury Poetry Competition.
If nothing else, I hope this is a prompt for us all to get writing, to may be ambitious in our writing and I hope it will be another reason to use the workshop. Please do so, if you don't it's going to wither and die.

(1) Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2019 is open for submissions in the categories of Fiction, Poetry, and Life Writing. The prize was launched ten years ago to support new writers, with no limits on age, gender, nationality or background. In this birthday year we are excited to announce that we are increasing each prize sum from £300 to £1,000. This increased value means that the prize can make a more meaningful difference for the winning writers’ careers.

The winners of each category will be published by Wasafiri in print and online and receive a £1,000 cash prize. They will also be offered the Chapter and Verse or Free Reads mentoring scheme in partnership with The Literary Consultancy (dependent on eligibility). The prize closes on 28 June 2019. Winners will be announced on 9 November 2019.

(2) Ledbury Poetry Competition 2019 For adults, the first prize winner receives £1,000 in cash and a course at Tŷ Newydd, The National Writers’ Centre for Wales. Eligibility: Three categories: Adults (18+) Restrictions: All poems must be the original work of the entrant and should not have been previously published, accepted for publication by a magazine, nor entered in other competitions. The length of each poem must not exceed 40 lines. Deadline: July 18, 2019. Entry fees: adults: £5.75 for first poem, £3.50 for each subsequent poem.

Looking forward to seeing and earing you and your work, maybe with a friend, on Sunday, 9th June.
Till then may you experience the joy of creativity and fruitfulness, insight and realisation, however easy or great the struggle for the right words.
Please check out York Festival of Ideas, 4th-16th June, which contains much to educate, entertain and inspire: yorkfestivalofideas.com/2019/.
A friendly wave,
Adrian

Price: £2.00. (£2 (£1 unwaged))

Time: 5:30pm (Ends at 20.30)