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January 14
Magma’s 2021/22 Poetry Competitions
https://magmapoetry.com/competition
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January 28
The 2021 Manchester Writing Competition
www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/
£10,000 prizes for the best portfolio
of three to five poems and best short story of up to 2,500 words.
Submissions must be new work, not previously published.
Open internationally to new and established writers, aged 16 or over.
Deadline: 28 January 2022
Entry fee: £18 (reduced price entry available)
Organised by the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Judged by Romalyn Ante, Malika Booker and Zaffar Kunial (Poetry)
and Hilaire, Simon Okotie and Nicholas Royle (Fiction).
For full details, to enter, and to read last year’s winners,
visit the Competition website: www.mmu.ac.uk/writingcompetition/ Read the rest of this entry »
December 31
Wolverhampton Literature Festival Fifth Poetry Competition
December 27
The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2021
https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/write-publish/competitions/
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December 6
Mslexia Poetry & Pamphlet Competition
Mslexia Publications Ltd, PO Box 656,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 1PZ
www.mslexia.co.uk/competitions
October 19-23
War of the Worlds
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/the-war-of-the-worlds
Reviewed for North West End: www.northwestend.co.uk
4*
What a tangled web we weave, especially these days when the Internet ensures all kinds of information reach the parts that other sources can’t get to. Fake news can make people belligerent or else scare them out of their wits, just as it did with the broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
October 12-16
Dracula: The Untold Story
imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse
Adapted and directed by Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks
https://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/dracula-the-untold-story
Reviewed for North West End: www.northwestend.co.uk
3*
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and here we are on Route 66 (or should that be 666?), since that’s their year (read on…), and a young lady has just walked into a police station to confess to murder. But she says her name is Mina Harker…
July 17- August 30
Pride And Prejudice
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
https://www.grosvenorparkopenairtheatre.co.uk/
Reviewed for Writebase: https://writebase.co.uk/
4*
It is a truth universally acknowledged – that you absolutely do not need to open with such a well known quote, or variations thereof, even if it establishes that most people know what you are talking about, and a plot summary is not required. Nor that such a familiar tale couldn’t prove damn’d tricky to be given enough of a spin to sprinkle it with stardust and make it fresh and original. It succeeds wonderfully.
August 19-30
Jungle Book
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre
https://www.grosvenorparkopenairtheatre.co.uk/
Reviewed for Writebase: https://writebase.co.uk/
3*
They say the sun shines on the righteous, so here, only right that the forecast of rain was incorrect – though it became a biblical outpouring almost as soon as this swinging performance finished. Read the rest of this entry »