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12th March 2010

International Womens Day

11th March 2010

Survivors' Poetry Open Mic

22nd February 2010

pe31 ~ see previous of the featured artist Laura Wilson

10th February 2010

Christchurch Cantebury University - Research on Significance of Writing

Would you like to take part in research study exploring the significance of creative writing? Michelle McCartney is a Trainee Clinical Phychologist at Christchurch Canterbury University and is currently running a reasearch project as part of her doctorate. If this is something that would be of interest to you and you wish to take part please Click Here to download an information sheet. Upon completion Michelle and Christchurch Canterbury University have kindly agreed to share her findings with Survivors' Poetry. Best wishes from SP with this study.

26th January 2010

Job vacancy - Midlands

Writer in Residence Position at The Hosking Houses Trust
Deadline: Monday - 12th April 2010

The Hosking Houses Trust was registered as a charity in 1999, with the aim of founding residential fellowships for older women writers and (eventually) artists and composers of achievement and merit. Fund raising was initiated and our first property, Church Cottage (suitable for writers) was acquired by the Trust in 2001.

We are therefore now seeking to appoint one or more writers for the year and the closing date is 12th April, interviews to be held on 19th April 2010. We offer-
· Between two months and one year's residence in Church Cottage, Clifford Chambers with all the bills paid-
· Bursary of £750pcm, or £9,000 per annum-

Applications are open to any woman over the age of forty, who writes in English, has the legal right to be in the UK and who has a contract for publication or performance of original work on any subject whatsoever. For further details contact:

Sarah Hosking Founder/secretary
33, The Square
Clifford Chambers
Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HT
Telephone 01789 262924
e-mail: sarahhosking@btinternet.com
website: www.hoskinghouses.co.uk

1st January 2010

SP News

Forthcoming Mentoring Scheme Publications in 2010

Joanna Watson
Inkblotting

Joanna Watson’s poems have been quietly winning prizes and appearing in well-regarded journals for many years. Collected here, they gift the reader with an

array of her most particular talents: pointillist portraits of extreme circumstances; pizzazzy neologisms and strict formal challenges; tender probings of

uncomfortable yet uncomplaining truths.
Naomi Foyle
Poet and Mentor

Helen Hudspith
Sleeping with the Snow Queen

Helen Hudspith
Sleeping with the Snow Queen is a skilfully managed pack of Tarot Cards. You want to see all the cards revealed but know that dark things will emerge as well as

light and it is important to embrace both. The collection is a memoir and travel guide, brave in its honesty, challenging in the surprises it holds, an extraordinary compass.
Maggie Sullivan
Poet and Mentor

Bruce James
Songs from Silence

There is honesty without device in Bruce James’ selected poetry. People that have known him and his work over the years will be pleased to hear of this

collection. The texts swell in confidence without mischief as the songs spring from very real places that many of us are only briefly privy to, and are here

transcribed by James’ for already trusted, and new audiences. In the telling of histories and the survival of ourselves in relation to the natural, built and spiritual

joinings with a nurturing heaven existing beyond what we have made of heaven, James shows the lived experience of the universe from the perspective of ‘lights

coming on once the applause has diminished…’ – he is a rare and gifted Poet.
Philip Ruthen
Writer, and Chair of Survivors’ Poetry

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