Bakehouse Workshops: Exchange of Words

Exchange of Words workshops

The Bakehouse
44 High Street
Gatehouse of Fleet
DG7 2HP
Tel: 01557 814196

Elspeth Brown, John Hudson and Chrys Salt will facilitate 3 x one-and-a-half hour workshops at The Bakehouse. There are places for 30 participants @ £10.00 per head. 10 participants to work with the same facilitator throughout the day. Elspeth, John and Chrys are members of the Solway Poets. They are widely published and have performed country-wide in Europe and the USA. Biographies can be found on The Bakehouse Website http://www.thebakehouse.info/ and on the Live Literature Scotland website www.scottishbooktrust.com
Info: 01557 814196 or www.thebakehouse.info

BBC Scotland: Overdue South

Overdue South, a radio play by Jules Horne, is one of three comedies commissioned for BBC Radio Scotland and recorded in front of a live audience at the Traverse Theatre earlier this year. Broadcast times:

Thurs 13th July 1130
Fri 14th July 0030
Sun 16 July 1705

and (for one week only) on the BBC Scotland website.

The play was directed by Marilyn Imrie for Catherine Bailey Ltd and stars Eileen McCallum, Louise Ludgate and Billy Riddoch.

BBC Radio 4: The Long Road to Iona

Whithorn writer Janette Walkinshawe has just recorded an Afternoon Play for BBC Radio 4 with producer David Ian Neville. 'The Long Road to Iona' will be broadcast on 30th August at 2.15, with a cast including Jimmy Chisholm, most recently seen at the Swallow Theatre in the touring production, "The Collection". He appears along with Ann Scott Jones, Finlay Welsh, Susan Coyle, James Bryce and Jim Webster-Stewart.

Crichton Campus Creative Writing Awards

Results of the Glasgow University Crichton Campus Creative Writing Awards 2006:

Muriel Carmichael Prose Prize
1. Jackie Galley
2. Vivien Jones
3 Heather Baird

Commended : Pam Gulland

Kirkpatrick Dobie Poetry Prize
1. Vivien Jones
2. Jackie Galley
3. Betty Tindal

Commended : Eryl Shields

Steven Runciman Essay Prize

Winner: Ashley Park

Highly Commended:
Angela Callaghan
Judith Dawson
Joe Smith

Southlight Sits. Vac.

Come on board Scotland's liveliest new literary magazine!

Southlight magazine, the new literary magazine from the southwest of Scotland, is looking for an energetic volunteer to help with administration and publication.

If you're computer-literate and a good organiser, willing to volunteer around an hour a week to handle submissions and help out with producing two issues a year, get in touch with the editorial team's Jo Abbott via wurrbit@hotmail.com.

Poetry in the Woods Launch

Words and walks have come together in a new poetry trail in Dumfries & Galloway. Mabie Forest near Dumfries is the home of the just-opened 'Poetry in the Woods' walkroute - the brainchild of poet and ecologist Jackie Galley, with support from Scottish Natural Heritage and Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association. It brings together work by regional poets who've taken part in outdoors poetry workshops by writers including wildlife expert Gerry Cambridge.

Flash Fiction Workshops 2

Flash Fiction workshops are now underway across the region with DGAA Virtual Writing Fellow Jules Horne - a chance to brush up your writing skills in time to enter the Writers' Forum Flash Fiction competition. Please email jules_horne@yahoo.co.uk to book. Remaining dates are:

Mon 10th July – 7-8.30pm
Lockerbie Library

Tues 11th July – 2-3.30pm
Dumfries Nth West Resource Centre

Thurs 13th July – 11am-12.30
Stranraer Library

And if you can't make it to a workshop, visit the DGAA Online Writers' Hub and download the flash fiction worksheet for tips and inspiration.

The Art of Ballads & Bards - Sheila Mullen Project

Dumfries-based Crichton Writers have teamed up with painter Sheila Mullen for an exciting cross-art project. Over the summer, they're creating work that explores the relationship between writing and painting, leading in the autumn to an anthology, a programme of viewings and readings, and a dramatised piece at the Swallow Theatre.

Performance Dates:

Thursday 14th September 6.00 pm.
Viewing and Readings. Crichton Foyer & Drama Studio.
Refreshments :Wine and Nibbles.

Thursday 21st September 7.30 pm.
Viewings and Readings, Broughton House. Kirkcudbright.
Refreshments: White wine and elderflower cordial.

Tuesday 3rd October. 7.30 pm.
Viewings and Readings, Chambers Gallery. Moffat.
Refreshments :Wine and Nibbles.

Information: Vivien Jones

Poetry in the Woods Trail Opening

Tuesday 27th June, 6pm
Mabie Car Park, Mabie Forest

The Poetry in the Woods project enters a new era with the launch of its woodland poetry trail in Mabie Forest. This opening event is a chance to walk the route, and hear a selection of poems read by the participating poets. Light refreshments will be served!

To book, ring Andrew Forster at DGAA on 01387 253383 or email andrew@dgaa.net.

Southlight Issue 1 Out

Introducing a fine new addition to the Scottish literary magazine scene: Southlight is a new literary journal that aims to bring the best in new prose, poetry and critical work from across Scotland and beyond.

A joint venture between DGAA Literature Department, Crichton Campus Writers’ Centre and a volunteer editorial and production team, Southlight launched at the Wigtown Spring Book Fair on 29th April and has been receiving warm acclaim ever since. Copies (£4.00) are available from Angus MacMillan.

Issue One features work from Linda Cracknell, Ruth Thompson, Vicki Feaver, Hugh MacMillan, John Manson, Mick Parkin, Ian McDonough, Tom Pow, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Jacob Polley, Liz Niven, Jackie Galley, Laura Helyer and an interview with Jackie Kay.