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News

Annual Fund 2018-19 round two selected projects announced 

News
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18th January 2019

Features

A goodbye letter to Charles Causley from The Charles Causley Trust’s most recent writer-in-residence, Jen Hadfield

Writers
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7th January 2019

Competitions

The Dorchester Literary Festival Local Writing Prize 2019

Competitions
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7th January 2019

Upcoming Events & Courses

05 Nov

Women Who Run With The Wolves

Course
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5th November 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5th May 2019 @ 4:30 pm

The Priory

16 Jan

WriteClub – Work in Progress

Writing Workshop
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January 16 @ 7:15 pm - March 27 @ 9:15 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every 2 weeks that begins at 7:15pm on Wednesday, repeating until 27th March 2019

Redland Library

21 Jan

Black Ven Creative Poetry and Nature Workshops September to January

Course
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January 21 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every month that begins at 8:00am on day Third of the month, repeating until 21st January 2019

Reed Hall at the University of Exeter

21 Jan

Creative Writing session with Linda Lewis

Event
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January 21 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Exeter Library

22 Jan

Talk: ‘Nearly in the shadow of my own vampire’: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 201 years later

Event
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January 22 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Arts Institute

26 Jan

Sprout Spoken: SuperSonic featuring Liv Torc and guests

Spoken Word
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January 26 @ 7:30 am - 10:00 pm

Sprout Health Foods

26 Jan

Social Media for Writers

Writing Workshop
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January 26 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

LSI Bridport

03 Feb

A Day to Write In

Event
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February 3
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every month that begins at 12:00am on day First of the month, happening 12 times

05 Feb

How I Came to Be Where I Never Was

Poetry
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February 5 @ 8:00 pm

Sheaf of Arrows

Opportunities

Call for Automation fellows, South West Creative Technology Network

Jobs
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18th January 2019

Resources

Costa Book Awards shortlist 2018 is announced – winter reading? Sorted

For Readers
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23rd November 2018

Projects

Writing Windrush and other stories

Project
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