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22 June 2022

News and Opportunities for Writers and Writing

CREATIVE WRITING AGAINST COASTAL WASTE
WRITERS WANTED

Surelines and D-Rift: Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste

In 2017 the United Nations declared 2021-2030 a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. But what does this mean for local beaches? How can Creative Writing encourage a deepening awareness of coastal ecologies and encourage a commitment from beach-users towards behaviour change that will help protect coastal creatures and habitats for future generations?

ArtfulScribe is recruiting a team of writers to co-author and develop approaches aimed at inspiring behavioural change through arts interventions supported by university research. We’d like to encourage environmental responsibility in line with both international ambitions and local policy aims, and measure the efficacy of Creative Writing as a change-maker, capable of conveying and challenging perspectives of the natural world.

This team of writers will attend two online preparatory workshops, creating links between arts and sciences, to help shape the design of new creative writing workshops and evaluation frameworks for people of different ages, to be delivered in person in late summer/autumn 2022. Writers will be paired with volunteers from local writing groups and courses as part of ArtfulScribe’s commitment towards developing sustainable regional writing ecologies, encouraging skills transfer, networking, and collaboration while developing evaluation data with university researchers to support future environmentally-based literature projects. Workshop outcomes will include material for a Surelines and D-Rift anthology and exhibition.

A fee inclusive of travel and other costs of £1000 is available for each writer, based on an estimated 32 hour commitment (spread over the course of the project). Priority will be given to applicants living in the Dorset and wider Solent region.

For application details and a project summary, please email matt@artfulscribe.co.uk. Application deadline: Friday 22nd July 1200hrs.

Surelines and D-Rift: Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste is designed in partnership with the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities (SIAH).

ARTFULSCRIBE SURVEY
We'd like to hear from you...

ArtfulScribe supports grassroots and mid-career writers to create, develop skills, and find new audiences for their work. We’d like to learn more about the people in our community to tailor future programmes and activities towards their needs. Please help us by completing the following survey, and help shape the future for writers in the Solent region:

Jotform Link - ArtfulScribe Audience Survey

There is an option at the end of the survey to enter a prize draw for 2 free tickets to an ArtfulScribe-supported show. We look forward to hearing from you.

SASKIA BLACK'S 'OF WESSEX' | BBC RADIO 4

'Of Wessex’, a radio drama by Saskia Black, commissioned by Calling the Shots & BBC Arts, produced by ArtfulScribe, was broadcast last week on BBC Radio 4.

You can listen on catch-up here.

WRITE A NOTE
Monday 20 July

The next Write a Note open mic is scheduled for Monday 20 July.

It's an ideal platform to trial new work or perfect delivery of existing material, in a warm and supportive enviroment at MAST Mayflower Studios.

Attendance is free, but please book in advance to let us know you're coming.

OPPORTUNITIES

RE/MEDITATIONS POETRY READING

A series of poetry talks and workshops is concluding with a poetry reading from Mira Mattar & Kandace Siobhan-Walker, on Thursday 23rd June: Re/Mediations at John Hansard Gallery, 6.30-8.30pm.

Sign up details are available here.

The events have been co-organised with Southampton's English Department and the Winchester School of Art, and will be co-hosted by John Hansard Gallery and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.

WILD WRITING WALKS

This July, join writer and embodiment practitioner Alice Flynn and Lowland Hike Leader Lisa Phaure for two nature-based creating writing walks in the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty:

2nd July - Women’s Wild Writing Walk, Lulworth Cove - with Grace The Space
30th July - Wild Writing for All, Cerne Abbas

On these mini-adventures for wellbeing, we'll create new writing in response to the natural landscape, our movement in the wild and our connection to the ancient lands we walk on.

These sessions are brought to you in partnership with Grace The Space, a Dorset-based community project encouraging diverse groups of women to grace outdoor spaces, ArtfulScribe, and the Nature Art & Wellbeing Fund.

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