We are a long established Writers Circle based in Felixstowe, Suffolk. This Weblog will be about us, Writing, Writing Competitions, Writing in Felixstowe, life and generally what we are up to as a Group and individuals and what interests us.
We are based in Felixstowe but our membership comes both from a wide area within Suffolk and we also have many 'online' members from around the UK, Europe and the US.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Please note our New! contact address is scribblers@btinternet.com . Please note all previous email addresses are now defunct.
"HIS works have captured the essence of rural life in East Anglia for decades.
But now, self-proclaimed �Suffolk boy� has followed in the footsteps of the Lord of the Rings creator JRR Tolkein by winning the prestigious Benson Medal from the Royal Literary Society.
Born in Acton near Sudbury, 83-year-old Dr Ronald Blythe has been a prolific writer since the 1960s."
[Tom Benedek] has been invited to do a show at the Writer's Guild. It is called SHOT BY THE WRITER and he shot his old screenplays with a gun and then photographed the results with an old 8 inch by 10 inch camera. Incredible detail. Beautiful. What is really great about the work especially is that the images are beautiful, but they are also insanely scaled because of the 8 x 10 negative. So you have this wonderful relationship with the image when it is 5 feet tall with no fuzziness.
Local Events: Heavily arts focused side to Refugee week in Ipswich.
REFUGEE WEEK 2006
19th June to the 25th June.
Mon 11.30am - 3pm Refugee Week Launch Cornhill, Ipswich 12.30 pm Schools Poetry Competition Wolsey Theatre - Invite Only Tues 11 am - 12.30 pm Oasis Video Editing for Refugees And Asylum Seekers CSV Media Clubhouse 6.10pm In This World directed by Micheal Winterbottom (2002) Ipswich Film Theatre Wed 12.30 pm International Womans Group Picnic in the Park (all women and Children Welcome) Christchurch Park, Ipswich All Day Football Frenzy - Try your hand at winning the World Cup - All day FIFA Playstation Gaming CSV Media Clubhouse 3pm Angola V Iran - Live Coverage from the World Cup CSV Media Clubhouse 9 pm George’s International Jam Night Steamboat Tavern Thurs 5pm Womans and Children Tea Party Sifre Centre Ipswich 4.30pm Let's Talk Health for Men CSV Media Clubhouse Fri 12pm Art Without Borders - Exhibition of International Artists (25% of Sales goes to the Refugee Council Clients Hardship Fund) Robert Cross Hall, Ipswich 7.30 pm Refugee & Migrant Workers Celebration Party All Communities Welcome CSV Media Clubhouse Sat 12pm Art Without Borders - Exhibition of International Artists Robert Cross Hall, Ipswich
Other Activities Happening Through the Week Schools Talks by the Refugee Council For more information Please contact Dagmar Grafton at the Refugee Council Photographic Exhibition Limelight Bar in the Corn Exchange until Tuesday 27th June Kurdish Art by Sabah Mohammed on display at CSV Media Clubhouse from 19th -22nd June
InPrint: Home: "InPrint are a group of visual artists and poets who specialise in collaborative work. Formed in 2003 to tour Norfolk with a highly successful exhibition facilitated by Creative Arts East, they stayed together to extend their professional and creative boundaries. Working mainly in pairs, they have exhibited together twice at the Fringe at the Factory event in Norwich, which included workshops and readings, and at Southwold, Colchester, Halesworth and Lowestoft, as well as separately elsewhere. They are also involved in the community through innovative use of their skills, as well as traditional teaching and performing. They are particularly interested in the way that juxtaposing visual art and poetry can create unexpected sparks leading to new ideas. "
I came across this really interesting weblog called 'bldgblog' which says it is about architectural conjecture, urban speculation and landscape futures. Lots of strange worlds and alternative futures there. Enjoy ....
ScreenEast is the Eastern Arts Organisation focused on screen productions/activities (occasionally has notice of work shops and calls for submissions). From the Screen east website....
Screen East is the screen agency for the East of England. We are dedicated to developing, supporting and promoting the film and media industries and culture in the East of England. We do this through the activities of our four departments: Locations, Production, Enterprise and Skills, and Audiences and Education.
We allocate Lottery Funding on behalf of the UK Film Council through the Regional Investment Fund for England. (RIFE). Please see our Funding section for more details.
Screen East: • Promotes the East of England as the ideal location for film and television production and attracts inward investment by marketing the locations, facilities, skills and expertise available in the region. • Develops the talent, skills and innovation of the region’s new and existing workforce. • Invests in the development of film, television and digital media businesses based in the East of England. • Creates opportunities for audiences in the East of England to enjoy and experience moving image culture and heritage. • Celebrates the diversity of the people who live and work in the region in order to break down barriers to working in the media industries.
The New Writing Partnership is always worth a mention. New Writing Worlds 2006 is to be held in Norwich from 14-18 June. From the NWP website....
New Writing Partnership : New Writing Partnership: "New Writing Worlds 2006 We are currently planning the second edition of New Writing Worlds a symposium for international writers to be held in Norwich from 14-18 June , with public events in Norwich and Norfolk. The theme for 2006 will be Experiment. "
The New Writing Partnership is a unique enterprise that aims to highlight, develop and support creative writing, establishing the East of England as a national and international centre of excellence. It intends to nuture and promote emerging talent and form educational and professional networks to help writers, and widen access to the pleasures and rewards of writing and literature through a programme of workshops, forums, international conferences, awards, community projects and cross-arts collaborations.
This is an interesting weblog found by Jan which as well as its content is a good example of how a writer can set themself up online quite easily and find a voice and a platform through blogspot.
As many of you know The weblog world has been growing really exponentially and there are tens of thousands of good ones out there, let alone the hundreds of thousands of derelict ones. I think there are two really good reasons for developing writers to keep a weblog - first is it is a place for people to find a platform and readers - the second is they really get writers in the habit of dropping out copy regularly - which I think is an essential discipline for people who havent got it.
From Dr Tusitala's profile....
Musings of a Literary Doctor: "Dr Tusitala is a forty-six year old writer who lives with his wife in Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire. His musical interests include playing the piano, alto & tenor saxophones and classical guitar. He has had several short stories, non-fiction and 'filler' articles published and has contributed to a film script. However, despite having won a Book Festival Prize in 2005 for a work of fiction, greater public success has so far eluded him. He has written several (unpublished) poems and is currently working on his first novel. Meanwhile, he relies on the practise of medicine to keep the garret warm and to ensure good supplies of printer ink and malt whisky. Dr Tusitala is a pseudonym. "
What’s this new craze? Crossing the nation? Has all this heat Gone to some female’s heads? Why are they so intent? To get away? Or thousands of them Hitting one particular website Which offers support And advice on how To survive the next month Often sane women Are booking flights abroad Lured by Swiss Tourist Board ads Of bare-chested hunks tossing hay Offering more delights Than a simple massage! Others advertise Heart to heart For a lover in their local paper Yet more soccer Suffragettes Get dragged away by police Their crime? taking the plug Off the new HD TV World cup widows You may be feeling Completely rejected, angry even Being ignored is damaging For any relationship (I should know) Avoid arguments By making use Of your ‘you’ time Your happiness comes first Enjoy yourself in the great outdoors Spending time With other like-minded people (Failing that, eat chocolate And sit and watch On the spare TV All those films on videos/DVD That you never had time to watch!)
The Short Story: "Welcome to story, the campaign to celebrate the short story. We believe that the short story is one of the most exciting and important literary forms, that can and should reach the widest possible readership. We believe that the short story matters."
What can you find on this site? Simply everything you could ever want to know about the short story: reading them, writing them; events, competitions, workshops and projects.
You can search for short story collections currently published in the UK and read tips and articles from writers, agents and publishers on what makes a great short story and the great classic and contemporary stories they love.
You can also find out about the new National Short Story Prize, funded by Nesta and supported by BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine.
Charleston - an artists home and garden: "Small Wonder, the UK�s only literary festival dedicated to the short story, took place for the second year running in September. "
A fast show of new and classic stories – combined with film, music, art, drama, poetry and plenty of audience participation.
6th Asham Award in association with Bloomsbury Publishing plc Deadline July 31st 2006
Entry fee £10 - this biennial award is open to women writers who have not yet had a novel or a collection of short stories published. Storied must not exceed 4,000 words in length and can be on any subject. They must be for adult readers only For more information check out www.ashamaward.com
....the website is well worth a poke around - there are quite a few interesting pieces on the website.
Writernet - Welcome to writernet...: "Welcome to Writernet We provide dramatic writers with the tools they need to build better careers and redefine the culture in which they work."
From the writernet website....
our mission is to give dramatic writers the tools they need to build better careers, and redefine the culture in which they work...
We achieve this by:
connecting dramatic writers to the industry and to each other, through networks
using the internet to support dramatic writers and those who work with them
providing a safety net...
writernet provides writers for all forms of live and recorded performance - working at any stage in their career, and in diverse contexts - with a range of services which enable them to pursue their careers better.
'Felixstowe,' or 'The Last of Her Order' by John Betjeman.
Sorry its been quieter for a few days but we all need our quiet spells.
This might be one of those things that you have all heard of and I am new to but Jan found this dazzling poem by John Betjeman about Felixstowe that I had never come across before and I thought it was really worth sharing with you all here.
This poem is widely available online at the http://www.johnbetjeman.com/ website wich we have already mentioned here, and is reproduced here for our readers convinience.!
Thanks Jan.... Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order by John Betjeman.
With one consuming roar along the shingle The long wave claws and rakes the pebbles down To where its backwash and the next wave mingle, A mounting arch of water weedy-brown Against the tide the off-shore breezes blow. Oh wind and water, this is Felixstowe.
In winter when the sea winds chill and shriller Than those of summer, all their cold unload Full on the gimcrack attic of the villa Where I am lodging off the Orwell Road, I put my final shilling in the meter And only make my loneliness completer.
In eighteen ninety-four when we were founded, Counting our Reverend Mother we were six, How full of hope we were and prayer-surrounded "The Little Sisters of the Hanging Pyx". We built our orphanage. We built our school. Now only I am left to keep the rule.
Here in the gardens of the Spa Pavillion Warm in the whisper of the summer sea, The cushioned scabious, a deep vermillion, With white pins stuck in it, looks up at me A sun-lit kingdom touched by butterflies And so my memory of the winter dies.
Across the grass the poplar shades grow longer And louder clang the waves along the coast. The band packs up. The evening breeze is stronger And all the world goes home to tea and toast. I hurry past a cakeshop's tempting scones Bound for the red brick twilight of St.John's.
"Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising" Here where the white light burns with steady glow Safe from the vain world's silly sympathising, Safe with the love I was born to know, Safe from the surging of the lonely sea My heart finds rest, my heart finds rest in Thee.
De Montfort University (Leicester) holding workshop about opportunities for writers in new media.
UNIVERSITY GETS CREATIVE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WRITING
Experts at De Montfort University are holding a free public workshop for individuals in the creative industries to learn about opportunities for writers in new media later this month.
Sue Thomas, Professor of New Media and Programme Leader of a new Online MA in Creative Writing & New Media at De Montfort University, has organised the event with a range of speakers from internet and virtual reality experts to award-winning online authors.
To be held on Friday 23 June, the Creative Writing and New Media Workshop also includes a demonstration of the BBC-supported high definition virtual studio in the University's Fused Media Lab which is part of a £3.7m investment in media technology.
Places are limited on the workshop, which includes free lunch and evening reception, and registration is essential. The programme, registration form, DIY delegate list, discussion area and directions are all at http://nlab.wikispaces.com .
The workshop will take place in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University's Clephan building, Bonners Lane, Leicester.
Practical workshops will include "Encounters with Web Fiction" by writer and De Montfort University new media researcher Jess Laccetti, and "The Digital Playground: Writing with and for Children" with Helen Whitehead, from Kids on the Net.
There will also be a workshop on "Writing New Media Fiction" by award-winning interactive author Kate Pullinger.. Kate is a Royal Literary Fund Virtual Fellow and Visiting Research Fellow at De Montfort University where she has helped set up the new Online Creative Writing and New Media MA course. Her multimedia online novel Inanimate Alice project is currently wowing the world of internet fiction.
De Montfort University's lecturer, Christopher Walker will lead a workshop on TV scriptwriting. Students and graduates are writing scripts for current TV shows including New Tricks, Shameless, and Doctors, and write an online soap opera for BBC Leicester.
Prof Thomas said: "This event, like many others here, will make the leading expertise within De Montfort University available to creative industries and individuals, both in the East Midlands region and further afield, so that they can make the most of developing digital technology opportunities."
The workshop also marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of the trAce Online Writing Centre, which was founded by Prof Thomas. The day will start with a presentation by Randy Adams, editor and visual consultant of trAces: A Commemoration of Ten Years of Artistic Innovation at trAce, and end with a presentation by Prof Thomas looking at the future of writing in a changing media environment.
"This workshop is an ideal opportunity to look towards new opportunities as well as marking how much has been achieved in the world of digital technologies and creative writing, and is fantastic opportunity for anyone in the creative industries looking at the future of new media writing" said Prof Thomas.
For more information on the new MA in Creative Writing and New Media run by De Montfort University see http://www.hum.dmu.ac.uk/blogs/cwnm The course is designed for writers interested in exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing through online study combined with a week-long workshop on site at the University.
....An excellent free event just 3hrs drive away - Im already at a conference that weekend - but let us know if you plan to go.
Interested? Then why not join us at one of our meetings?
We meet on the First and Third Tuesday of each month at the Felixstowe Library in Crescent Road, Felixstowe, IP11 7BY., meetings start at 7.30 pm and we endeavour to be finished by 10pm.
The New!2009 programme is:-
All meetings are held at Felixstowe Library
Start at 7.30 pm and finish by 10.00 pm.
Suggested 50 pence donation per meeting, includes tea or coffee
January
20 Bill Budner Trophy – Anonymous competition for attending writers only
24 Social meal at Castle Lodge Hotel
25 Group session with Maureen Blundell at Castle Lodge Hotel
February
3 Meeting
17 Meeting
March
3 Meeting
17 Creative writing exercise
April
7 Meeting
21 Meeting
May
5 Meeting
19 Bill Budner Trophy – Anonymous competition for attending writers only
June
2 Meeting
16 Meeting
Beach Party Social to be arranged June/July
July
7 Meeting
21 Creative writing exercise
August
4 Meeting
18 Meeting
September
1 Meeting
15 Bill Budner Trophy – Anonymous competition for attending writers only
October
6 Meeting
20 Torchlight Halloween Meeting
November
3 Meeting
17 Meeting
December
1 Meeting
15 Creative writing exercise followed by the Christmas party.
Remember, membership is FREE, so why not come along? We ask for an optional donation of 50p per meeting to help towards running costs but that does include tea or coffee and a biscuit!
New!IMPORTANT - you can help.....do you know information or content that would help other readers of the Felixstowe Scribblers Weblog?...mail us at Dave Feakes, scribblers@btinternet.com with your comments, additions and suggestions TA! The Scribblers.
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[Tom Benedek] has been invited to do a show at the Writer's Guild. It is called SHOT BY THE WRITER and he shot his old screenplays with a gun and then photographed the results with an old 8 inch by 10 inch camera. Incredible detail. Beautiful. What is really great about the work especially is that the images are beautiful, but they are also insanely scaled because of the 8 x 10 negative. So you have this wonderful relationship with the image when it is 5 feet tall with no fuzziness. 
ScreenEast is the Eastern Arts Organisation focused on screen productions/activities (occasionally has notice of work shops and calls for submissions). From the Screen east website....
The New Writing Partnership is always worth a mention. New Writing Worlds 2006 is to be held in Norwich from 14-18 June. From the NWP website....
establishing the East of England as a national and international centre of excellence. It intends to nuture and promote emerging talent and form educational and professional networks to help writers, and widen access to the pleasures and rewards of writing and literature through a programme of workshops, forums, international conferences, awards, community projects and cross-arts collaborations.
In winter when the sea winds chill and shriller
Practical workshops will include "Encounters with Web Fiction" by writer and De Montfort University new media researcher 
There will also be a workshop on "Writing New Media Fiction" by award-winning interactive author 
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