THE 2011 FESTIVAL was ‘THE BEST EVER’ Can hardly wait for next year!
That’s what you said last year, but 2012 is now upon us.
Thinking of coming to the Festival this year?
31st August, 1&2 September, 2012.
Booking now open
The early booking discount for the 2012 Festival of Writing has closed.
If you have paid £10, before the end of January, don’t forget to claim your £25 off the cost of a full weekend next September.
Booking Administrator, Anne Steward, 6 Spring Bank Croft, Holmfirth, HD9 2LW
Further details:- pamfish@ntlworld.com or casualwriter@hotmail.com
The 2012 festival will be at Nottingham again. New details for this exciting event are now available in our 2012 Festival Brochure
Click here for your Brochure
Julie Bokowiec, Simon Whaley, Alison Chisholm, Linda Lewis and Steve Bowkett will be leading a variety of professional Writing Workshops.
Full details available now.
For NAWG members, festival brochures and booking forms should have been with your February LINK.
For an on-line brochure see above.
Come for the whole weekend or a single workshop.
£230 for Nawg members, £250 non-members, for 2 nights full-board and 4 teaching workshops.
2012 Festival Booking forms are now available.
Click here for a Booking Form
As last year, book early to avoid disappointment. £100 will secure your booking, plus the final £130/£150 before 1st June 2012.
BOOKING NOW OPEN – £100 secures your place.
After 1st June 2012 payment must be made in full with the booking.
For more information email the Booking Administrator: casualwriter@hotmail.com
Or write to: 6 Spring Bank Croft, Holmfirth, HD9 2LW.
Ancaster Hall of Residence – University Park Campus
Nottingham University.
Away from all the hustle and bustle of modern life, University Park’s 330 acres of beautiful, landscaped parkland make it the perfect place to enjoy your festival weekend. Ancaster Hall of Residence is situated only 2 miles from Nottingham City Centre, with free car parking close to the Hall for drivers. (The nearest train station is Beeston, more details in Travel Directions.)
All bedrooms are single, en-suite and within easy access of the teaching rooms, dining hall, and all festival activities. Each room has a private shower, toilet, hand basin, and toiletries pack. There are coffee and tea supplies in all the rooms.
All meals are served in the dining room which includes a ‘Three Item Hot Breakfast’, ‘Classic Buffet Plus Lunch’, and a Barbeque. Saturday’s Gala Dinner will be an ‘Enhanced Conference Dinner’. A bar will be open Friday and Saturday evenings. Guest may check in from 3.00pm on Friday 31st August, and rooms must be vacated by 10.00am on Sunday morning. Luggage can be stored if required.
Latest News of the 2012 Festival of Writing, 31st August, 1st & 2nd September, 2012.
The Festival is returning to Nottingham University for another year as the committee feel that they can organise a better festival for you by capitalising on the many good points from this year including knowledge of the premises and the hospitality of the staff.
We came away in September from a memorable weekend, feeling that the core of friendship and happiness that developed was unbeatable, but The 2012 Festival is set to be the even better.
There will be more workshops and professional entertainment on the Friday evening. Friday activities will begin at 4.30 with an optional, free to all delegates’ session and Sunday’s timetable will be extended with one-to-ones after lunch. These are just a few glimpses of the new programme. All of the workshops will be in state-of-the-art classrooms, together in a brand new building, only finished at the end of 2011, just a stone’s throw from Ancaster Hall of Residence. Bedrooms will be mainly in the Ancaster Building, in the corridor leading from the main reception area.
We have booked for you: – Julie Bokowiec: – Simon Whaley: – Alison Chisholm: – Linda Lewis as your main bookable workshop tutors.
In addition Steve Bowkett will be giving an extra open to all, workshop on Friday afternoon and one-to-ones, Saturday and Sunday afteernoons.
Chris Day will be giving an open to all, extra workshop on Saturday afternoon on Publishing and Marketing Books.
Click here for:- Getting to Know Your Tutors
Brochures and booking forms will be coming to you with the February LINK, but in the meantime watch the NAWG website for all the festival news as it unfolds.
Do you want a speaker on non-fiction. I have had 126 books published, mainly by HarperCollins. After my second marriage in 1996, we opened a small publishing business and are still running it.
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Well done Ruth! I’ve written a few radio plays varying from ten to forty-five minutes. Radio four is the obvious place to be for this and they have a great website for budding new writers for the BBC called BBc writersroom. They’ve got lots of interesting goodies like scripts to download for free. I made the shortlist for the Alfred Bradley bursary award for radio drama a couple of years back and I find radio to be the most freeing, natural medium for storytelling. Good luck with your future writing!
Very pleased to have been shortlisted for my radio play ‘The Laira Quatrain’ (note Quatrain and not Quartrain). The idea for the theme was based on a quatrain by Nostradamus. It is the first radio play I’ve ever written so I’d better hurry up to try and pen a few more!
Well done to everyone else.
Ruth Muttlebury
President
Plymouth Proprietary Library
Plymouth Proprietary Library Writers Group
No – sorry we do not supply this sort of information.
do you have any information for foreigners who do not live in the UK -e.g. Zimbabwe about where they might publish their works?
Thanks
They will be going up fairly soon. They will have to remain as I have typed them for the Gala Dinner Programmes, but that is just about how I did them – watch this space!
Would it be possible to publish the winners of this years festival category by category please? Name, writers group and title would be lovely!