If you're struggling with your writing and you're in the East Midlands, this site may provide what you need.
http://www.writingschoolleicester.co.uk/
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Saturday, 30 October 2010
Broxtowe Business Womens Network
Next event
9th November 5.30-8.30pm
Eastwood Hall, NG16 3SS
Cost to attend: £10
Stand Opportunity: £15
For more information call: Stephanie Wilkinson
Economic Development Officer 0115 917 7777 x 3989
9th November 5.30-8.30pm
Eastwood Hall, NG16 3SS
Cost to attend: £10
Stand Opportunity: £15
For more information call: Stephanie Wilkinson
Economic Development Officer 0115 917 7777 x 3989
Friday, 29 October 2010
Nottingham Trent University ART Future Factory seminars
Have you come across Future Factory seminars? These are free for businesses in the East Midlands. I've been to a couple and found the mix of attendees interesting and topics relevant to me as a writer trying to understand the current marketplace.
Forever Together? – Why customers throw away your products given by Professor Tim Cooper
Wednesday 17 November 2010, 12:00noon to 5pm
Nottingham Trent University City Campus
To secure your place please contact Angela Scott in the Future Factory office on 0115 848 8675, or email: FutureFactory@NTU.ac.uk
Forever Together? – Why customers throw away your products given by Professor Tim Cooper
Wednesday 17 November 2010, 12:00noon to 5pm
Nottingham Trent University City Campus
To secure your place please contact Angela Scott in the Future Factory office on 0115 848 8675, or email: FutureFactory@NTU.ac.uk
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Writing and muscle strain
How well do you take care of yourself as a writer?
I ask the question only because I'm prompted by a morning spent paying attention to my body.
Here I have to declare an interest. For 14 years I worked for part of my time at least as a complementary therapist and dealt with a string of people presenting various aches and pains, physical and emotional.
None of them were writers. Or at least I don't think so, though they may have been keeping it quiet....
just like I was at that time.
But many of them were computer users which led to all kinds of knots in the muscles.
Do you use a computer for your writing? Or are you a pen and paper lover?
Doesn't matter whichever you favour. You'll still have shoulder and neck problems... though use of the mouse can outbid the pencil every time.
I'm confident in knowing you're likely to suffer these problems, simply because of my experience. And your age has nothing to do with it. Use of large rucksacks for schoolbooks is resulting in a generation of young people already at risk of muscle strain.
Now I'm not here to nag you - well I'd like to but again from experience it's probably a waste of time. So I'll hold up my hand to say I'm as guilty as anyone about abusing my hardworking muscles but can I at least enter a plea on your muscles' behalf.
Give them some TLC from time to time. We know about the dangers of eyestrain and all those tiny muscles around the eyes get their own back by producing you a 5* headache when you least need it.
All your muscles ask is an occasional stretch, a bit of a rub down and some rest. Learn a bit about how you can help them and they'll carry on performing wonders for you... as they do everyday without you realising it.
I ask the question only because I'm prompted by a morning spent paying attention to my body.
Here I have to declare an interest. For 14 years I worked for part of my time at least as a complementary therapist and dealt with a string of people presenting various aches and pains, physical and emotional.
None of them were writers. Or at least I don't think so, though they may have been keeping it quiet....
just like I was at that time.
But many of them were computer users which led to all kinds of knots in the muscles.
Do you use a computer for your writing? Or are you a pen and paper lover?
Doesn't matter whichever you favour. You'll still have shoulder and neck problems... though use of the mouse can outbid the pencil every time.
I'm confident in knowing you're likely to suffer these problems, simply because of my experience. And your age has nothing to do with it. Use of large rucksacks for schoolbooks is resulting in a generation of young people already at risk of muscle strain.
Now I'm not here to nag you - well I'd like to but again from experience it's probably a waste of time. So I'll hold up my hand to say I'm as guilty as anyone about abusing my hardworking muscles but can I at least enter a plea on your muscles' behalf.
Give them some TLC from time to time. We know about the dangers of eyestrain and all those tiny muscles around the eyes get their own back by producing you a 5* headache when you least need it.
All your muscles ask is an occasional stretch, a bit of a rub down and some rest. Learn a bit about how you can help them and they'll carry on performing wonders for you... as they do everyday without you realising it.
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Nottingham Folk Industry Day 2010
19 November, Nottingham
Join an action-packed and thought-provoking day of keynote speeches, workshops, presentations, discussion, showcase performance and debate across three strands. For more information and to book:
http://www.festivalorganisers.org/ConferencesAndTraining/Folk_Industry_Conference.html
Join an action-packed and thought-provoking day of keynote speeches, workshops, presentations, discussion, showcase performance and debate across three strands. For more information and to book:
http://www.festivalorganisers.org/ConferencesAndTraining/Folk_Industry_Conference.html
Monday, 18 October 2010
Jenny Swann talks about how she came to start Candlestick Press
Jenny where did the idea come from for the press?
I set up Candlestick Press in 2008 with the aim of broadening out the readership of poetry – I love (good) poetry, and I couldn’t believe that I was in such a small minority. So the idea was to find a way to bring poetry back into the swing of everyday life.
How did you come up with your concept of 'Instead of a Card'?
Lots of different factors conspired to bring together the ‘Instead of a Card’ poetry pamphlet. I had been working as poetry editor for another Nottingham publisher, Five Leaves Publications, and had seen a couple of poetry pamphlets through the presses… and fallen in love with them. There is something about poetry pamphlets, as opposed to full collections, that is so gorgeous – they feel nice, they make a great introduction to a poet you don’t know, without hitting you over the head with more than you really wanted at a first sitting.
And you can wander around with them tucked neatly into a pocket or a bag – for whatever reasons, I feel a great attachment to them as a vehicle for conveying poetry along with pleasure, delight, curiosity.
How do you use the idea to encourage people to have a go at poetry?
By packaging up our pamphlets with an envelope and bookmark, we found a way of encouraging people to buy poetry pamphlets – namely, as an alternative to the more mainstream greetings cards. Hence, for instance, we published ‘Ten Poems about Love’, knowing that most of our friends and acquaintances would much prefer to be given that for Valentine’s Day than another schmaltzy, over-priced card.
What developments have taken place this year for Candlestick Press?
So – that is the background to the Press. The foreground is that earlier this year, I teamed up with Di Slaney and we are now jointly running the Press. She is a woman after my own heart – someone who can add up, knows one end of a spreadsheet from the other, and keeps hens. Really, I couldn’t have asked for more in a business partner.
What are you currently working on?
As we approach Christmas, we are sending out frightening numbers (but nicely so! I love a little frisson of fear, myself) of our second Christmas poetry pamphlet, published in collaboration with the generous-spirited Carol Ann Duffy. She has agreed to select and introduce a Christmas poetry pamphlet with us for each of the ten Christmases that she is Poet Laureate.
(this is how I first met Candlestick Press, buying their 2009 Christmas collection Eileen)
And what's your next collection about?
Next February sees the publication of ‘Ten Poems about Tea’ with an introduction by Sophie Dahl (this was the brainchild of the Picador poet, Lorraine Mariner, who had been quietly collecting poems about tea for a couple of years).
So there’s never a dull day. And even if there were, it would be punctuated by cups of tea and poems!
Eileen's recommendation:
If you know someone who'd appreciate a Christmas card with a difference or you want to start a new tradition in your family, then head over to http://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/poetry-pamphlets/ and do your Christmas shopping away from the scrum of the high street.
Thanks Jenny.
I set up Candlestick Press in 2008 with the aim of broadening out the readership of poetry – I love (good) poetry, and I couldn’t believe that I was in such a small minority. So the idea was to find a way to bring poetry back into the swing of everyday life.
How did you come up with your concept of 'Instead of a Card'?
Lots of different factors conspired to bring together the ‘Instead of a Card’ poetry pamphlet. I had been working as poetry editor for another Nottingham publisher, Five Leaves Publications, and had seen a couple of poetry pamphlets through the presses… and fallen in love with them. There is something about poetry pamphlets, as opposed to full collections, that is so gorgeous – they feel nice, they make a great introduction to a poet you don’t know, without hitting you over the head with more than you really wanted at a first sitting.
And you can wander around with them tucked neatly into a pocket or a bag – for whatever reasons, I feel a great attachment to them as a vehicle for conveying poetry along with pleasure, delight, curiosity.
How do you use the idea to encourage people to have a go at poetry?
By packaging up our pamphlets with an envelope and bookmark, we found a way of encouraging people to buy poetry pamphlets – namely, as an alternative to the more mainstream greetings cards. Hence, for instance, we published ‘Ten Poems about Love’, knowing that most of our friends and acquaintances would much prefer to be given that for Valentine’s Day than another schmaltzy, over-priced card.
What developments have taken place this year for Candlestick Press?
So – that is the background to the Press. The foreground is that earlier this year, I teamed up with Di Slaney and we are now jointly running the Press. She is a woman after my own heart – someone who can add up, knows one end of a spreadsheet from the other, and keeps hens. Really, I couldn’t have asked for more in a business partner.
What are you currently working on?
As we approach Christmas, we are sending out frightening numbers (but nicely so! I love a little frisson of fear, myself) of our second Christmas poetry pamphlet, published in collaboration with the generous-spirited Carol Ann Duffy. She has agreed to select and introduce a Christmas poetry pamphlet with us for each of the ten Christmases that she is Poet Laureate.
(this is how I first met Candlestick Press, buying their 2009 Christmas collection Eileen)
And what's your next collection about?
Next February sees the publication of ‘Ten Poems about Tea’ with an introduction by Sophie Dahl (this was the brainchild of the Picador poet, Lorraine Mariner, who had been quietly collecting poems about tea for a couple of years).
So there’s never a dull day. And even if there were, it would be punctuated by cups of tea and poems!
Eileen's recommendation:
If you know someone who'd appreciate a Christmas card with a difference or you want to start a new tradition in your family, then head over to http://www.candlestickpress.co.uk/poetry-pamphlets/ and do your Christmas shopping away from the scrum of the high street.
Thanks Jenny.
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