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Open Call for Book Cover Design

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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Art Students, Birmingham, Book Cover Design, Competition, Design, Digbeth Stories, Illustration, uk

This is a great opportunity for a design or illustration student to have their work on the cover of a new book due to be published this year. The successful submitter will receive a copy of the book and an invite to the book launch in Birmingham. The opportunity has been offered to students at BCU in Birmingham but it is open to anyone in the West Midlands area – people further afield are welcome to submit but they may struggle to get to the launch event.

There’s not much turn around time on this as the deadline is the 20th of February 2023.

If you are interested the full brief can be found here or you can scan the QR code below. Any questions can be posted below.

The other end of the telescope – a dozen ways to guarantee rejection

24 Monday Jul 2017

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Some great tips for getting rejected from periodicals and competitions. They’ll either make you laugh or blush with shame.

Thanks to Kmelkes for this glimpse from the other end of the telescope.

 

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2015 STORGY Short Story Competition

24 Tuesday Nov 2015

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A short story competition judged by the marvelous, Paul McVeigh. Get those entries off now!

We are pleased to announce that the 2015 STORGY Short StoryCompetitionwill be judged by critically acclaimedauthor

Paul McVeigh

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Paul McVeigh’s short fiction has been published in the New Century New Writing, Rattle Tales 2 & 3 and Unbraiding the Short Story anthologies, Harrington’s Fiction Journal, Flash Flood Journal, The Stinging Fly and been commissioned by BBC Radio 4. He has read his work on BBC Radio 5, at the Belfast Book Festival, the International Conference on the Short Story in Vienna and the Cork International Short Story Festival. He represented the UK short story for The Brittish Council in Mexico this year.

He is currently working on a short story collection and his first novel was published in April this year and was shortlisted for The Guardian’s ‘Not The Booker’ Prize.

Paul is the Co-Founder of the London Short Story Festival and Associate Director of Word Factory, The UK’s…

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Lost Districts almost here

26 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by fletcherski in Art, competitions, Poetry, prize money, Short Stories, writing, Writing West Midlands

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Hi, only a week to go now before the Lost DistrictsIMG_6331 competition launches.

You’ll remember from my earlier post that Lost Districts is all about celebrating the work of writer and poet, Joel Lane, who is sadly no longer with us. So, if you know a photographer, or visual artist, who’s based, or has work based in the West Midlands, UK, get them to check out the Lost Districts page, they could win £100 and have their work splashed across the web!

 

Lost Districts: Text and Image.

27 Friday Jun 2014

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Art, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Birmingham Literature Festival, Chaz Brenchley, Competition, Districts, Joel Lane, Lost Districts, Photography, Poetry, Prize Money, short stories, stunning images, Text and Image, uk

Hey, there’s a mighty cool project kicking off in Birmingham City called Lost Districts.

IMG_5349Lost Districts are looking to link the dark, moving, writing of the sadly departed Joel Lane with stunning images from photographers and artists.

At the moment they’re gathering extracts of text from Joel’s work, which was predominately set in the West Midlands, getting ready to draw up a list of ten sites that they want images for. The project will take place over the ten days of the Birmingham Literature Festival. Each day a winning image will be chosen and from those ten images an overall winner will receive £100.

So if you’re a budding artist, or a demon with a lens, get over to their site and read on for more details here.

If you’re unfamiliar with Joel’s work you should change that a.s.a.p. This quote from Chaz Brenchley, author of Shelter, Blood Waters, The Garden and other critically acclaimed works of crime fiction, should help:

“Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.”

 

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