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Young Writer of the Year
Tyne & Esk’s Young Writer of the Year Competition is open to entrants live in or attend school in East Lothian or Midlothian, and must be in P4-P7 (primary) or S1-S4 (secondary). Entries can be prose or poetry. Entry is free. A completed entry form must be attached to the entry. The entry form and rules can [...]
Teenage writers
An email from a friend – Dorothy Baird
Hi folks,
Sorry it’s not a personal email, but just wanted to let you know about the teenagers’ poetry installation that I’ve been working with in case you’d like to go and have a look at it..
It’s on in the Edinburgh Central Libray (Mezzanine) for five weeks from now [...]
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Review of Publication Support Scheme
The Committee, at its recent meeting, accepted the following review of the Publication Support Scheme.
In reviewing the overall progress of the scheme it was decided that we should attempt to provide increased support to authors who have been given approval to be published by Tyne & Esk. Hitherto the applicant’s work has been read and [...]
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Success for David Purdie
Success for David Purdie, A Tyne and Esk Writer.
David Purdie, a member of the Penicuik group of Tyne and Esk Writers, who contributed enormously to the formation of the Organisation and who was its first Convenor, has won the John Law Tassie for his translation into Scots of Coleridge’s, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’
John [...]
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Thanks to Paul Duffney
At their regular meeting in the Library on the 18th January, the Dalkeith Writers’ Group presented Paul Duffney with tokens of their gratitude for his acting as leader of the group for many years. His provision of a ‘catering service’ is sadly missed.
His recent marriage and move to North Berwick may affect his attendance, but [...]
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Scrivens deadline
Message from Karen Duncan:
Hi Everyone
Happy New Year! Hope you all had a lovely festive period.
The next issue of Scrivens is due out in February and it would be great to get submissions of writing or information on events, readings, publications etc from all the Tyne and Esk groups. Could you please mention this at your [...]
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Best wishes for 2012
A Happy New Year and best wishes from all at Tyne & Esk Writers.
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Celebrating Donald McKinney
Dunbar group co-founder Donald McKinney died on 31st October as a result of a brain tumour. He was a young man in otherwise good health. Although he had moved from Dunbar to Thurso a few years back, he still kept in touch with his friends in Dunbar. He was a fine writer, publishing novels and [...]
Lennoxlove 2011
I’m delighted that Rita Bradd (Dunbar Group) sent me a note on her experiences at the Festival this year. It’s now up on the Recent Events page.
My own posting on the Festival is now on my blog page.
Colin
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Writer of the Year 2011
The awards ceremony for the Tyne & Esk Writers Writer of the Year 2011 was held on October 31st in the Brunton Hall Theatre, Musselburgh. The judges were A C Clarke (poetry) and Tom Bryan (prose), and the event was MC-ed by Creative Writing Fellow Tom Murray. The results were:
Midlothian Prose
Runner-up: Andrew Broadfoot, Winner Mary [...]
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