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SUMMARY:Globe Soup: How to Write Stories That Win Contests Course & Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Course Dates: Ongoing throughout 2025\nFee: Intro rate: £29.99 (Standard: £79.99)\nCourse Content: 7 modules and 30 lessons\, available as both PDF and audio files for flexible learning\, released throughout the year\nWorkshops: 7 interactive workshops in 2025\nCategory: Writing Courses & Opportunities\nCourse Website: globesoup.net/how-to-write-stories-that-win-contests\n\nRun by Globe Soup\, How to Write Stories That Win Contests is a comprehensive online course and workshop experience designed to help fiction writers craft compelling\, impactful stories that resonate with and captivate readers. \nThe course focuses predominantly on short stories but almost all of the lesson include lots of useful information that can be applied to shorter (flash) or longer fiction\, or even poems in some cases. The course includes seven modules\, with a total of 30 lessons\, many of which go into great depth unravelling some of the trickiest parts of fiction writing. In addition\, course participants will be invited to join an interactive workshop group to connect with fellow writers\, ask questions\, receive feedback on your work\, and refine their writing; putting everything they’ve learned into practice. \nAs writing courses go\, this extensive option from Globe Soup offers unbelievable value. So if you want to improve your chances of winning a writing competition\, sign up to How to Write Stories That Win Contests today.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/write-stories-win-contests-course/
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SUMMARY:The Writers' HQ Write A Novel Festival
DESCRIPTION:Course Dates: Sunday 1 June to Monday 30 June\nFee: Free to Writers’ HQ Gold Star Members\nWhat is it?: Workshops\, write-alongs\, the Wild Draft Challenge and more\nWorkshops: Twelve workshops hosted by a specially curated gang of writers and authors who will teach and inspire you\nCourses: Access to all Writers’ HQ novel plotting\, editing and troubleshooting courses\nCategory: Writing Courses & Opportunities\nFestival Website: writershq.co.uk/the-writers-hq-write-a-novel-festival\n\nThe Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Festival runs from the 1st to the 30th June 2025 and is a month of novel writing\, workshops\, write-alongs\, community and tea drinking. Run by the excellent Writers’ HQ\, will “Festival will hold your hand and kick your butt through starting\, middling and finishing your novel.” \nThere are 12 workshops including: \n– Writing A Wild Draft with Sarah Lewis\n– Write-Along with Veronique Kootstra\n– Funny Hats: Characterisation Masterclass with Akshay Gajria\n– Write-Along with Kathy Hoyle\n– Making Space for Stories that Hold Linh S Nguyen\n– Write-Along with Mara Livermore\n– Making Magic Real with Leone Ross \nThe workshops are free to Gold Star Members\, which costs £20 a month or £190 annually\, and also include access to 25 writing courses\, monthly writing masterclasses\, and access to the Writers’ HQ community. \nSo if you want to write that novel that’s been brewing inside you for years\, get involved with the Writers’ HQ Write A Novel Festival.
URL:https://newwriters.org.uk/competition/writers-hq-write-novel-festival/
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SUMMARY:Outside In Written / Spoken Word Micro-Commission
DESCRIPTION:Application Deadline: 9am\, Thursday 19 June 2025\nFee: FREE\nTheme: A poem\, story or short essay in response to the open exhibition ‘Shelter’\nCriteria: Entrants must be based in the West Midlands and encounter significant barriers to the art world\, such as due to health\, disability\, social circumstance or isolation.\nCategory: Writing Courses & Opportunities\nOrganisation Website: outsidein.org.uk/news/shelter-spoken-word-commission\n\nOutside In has a fanatastic opportunity for two West Midlands-based artists as part of their upcoming National Open Exhibition\, ‘Shelter’.   \nOutside In is an award-winning national arts charity that supports artists who encounter significant barriers to the art world\, such as due to health\, disability\, social circumstance or isolation. They are seeking two West Midlands-based artists\, creatives\, writers or poets who meet their criteria to create a written piece in response to our upcoming national open exhibition\, ‘Shelter’. This can be a poem\, a story or a short essay-style piece.  \nThe selected artists will attend either or both the private view and celebration event for ‘Shelter’\, and then have time to write their piece in preparation for a spoken word event in mid- to late-July. The spoken word event date is yet to be confirmed\, but Outside In will ensure the selected artists have sufficient notice and support to write their piece. \nCommission details:\n– Two artists will be commissioned.\n– You do not need to already be signed up as an Outside In artist to apply\, but you do need to meet Outside In’s criteria of encountering barriers to the art world due to health\, disability\, social circumstance or isolation.\n– Each will receive £100.\n– The commissioned artists will be asked to attend one or both of the following events at The New Art Gallery Walsall: The ‘Shelter’ exhibition private view on Friday 27 June\, from 6–8pm & An artist celebration event on Saturday 28 June\, from 12–3pm\n– These events will give you an opportunity to visit the exhibition and to meet the exhibiting artists and curators\, and you can drop in at any time during these hours. A travel bursary of £20 is available if requested.\n– The artists will then work on their pieces following their visits to the exhibition.\n– The commissioned works will be featured on the Outside In website and performed during a spoken word workshop held at The New Art Gallery Walsall in July. The workshop date is yet to be confirmed.   \nHow to apply\nPlease complete a short application form to apply. You can choose to: \n– complete the form on on the website\n– or download the form and send it by email to: anupama.gamanagari@outsidein.org.uk\n– or print the form and send it by post to: Outside In\, PO Box 5571 Brighton BN50 8UR
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