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“Incwriters gives an insightful look into modern literary criticism and engages with current themes and ideas”
- Aesthetica
“Starting up Incwriters was a great idea, and it has developed into a wonderful and very necessary community. This is the way, in the 21st century, for writers to keep in touch with each other.”
- Banipal
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Incwriters has brought events to festivals and venues across Europe, UK and the USA bring the finest critics, panels, workshops, poets and writers to audiences. Past events have included Poetry and Fiction Readings, How To Get Published Workshops, Journals and Publishing Panels. Incwriters have delivered events in London, New York, Manchester, Liverpool and at festivals across the North of England. From themed tours to one off events in conjunction with publishers and festivals. Incwriters continues to promote poets and writers who can engage live audiences on a project by project basis*. They are commited to live literature in the UK and abroad.
Listed here are past and present events that Incwriters have worked on or in partnership with other organisations.
* From 2002-2008 Incwriters ran the successful INCWriters Client List. In that time it ran PR for 20+ poets from across the UK, did one off promotions for 300+ writers/poets and promoted the live events of 653 venues across the UK, Europe and USA. This list is now closed.
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PRESENT TOUR
Journeys (2007-2009) Artwork by Saatchi Winner, Lisha Aquino Rooney. The Journey can be long or short, it can be a metaphor, a philosophical argument, the turning of a book page, the trip of a lifetime or the weekend shopping experience. It can be Heaven, it can be Hell. In this tour, the poets and writers bring to audiences across the UK their views, their anecdotes, their humour and empathy with the Journey. They look at the personal & public journey, the fall from grace & the rise to power. In workshops, award-winning poets and writers will help new readers, poets & writers explore the mechanics of writing, the Journey from amateur to professional, from everyday to poetic. In talks, writers will debate the changing face of writing and the problems with being a writer today. It features Gaia Holmes, Graham Mort, Pat Borthwick, Milner Place, Andrew Oldham and Ian Parks + Special Guests. More info can be found here. |
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The Sea (2006) Artwork by Dan Lyons. This tour celebrated everything about The Sea, starting in Liverpool and ending in Whitby, the eight month tour took in some of the major ports of the North and the cities that thrived on them, from Liverpool to Manchester. The tour promoted the work of Pat Borthwick, Ian Parks and Milner Place, supported the work of Andrew Oldham (Liverpool), Peter Lewin (Lytham), Geraldine Green, Marita Over and Josephine Dickinson (Penrith) and Chris Firth (Whitby). Fusing national poets and local poetry before audiences. A live recording made on the tour is now available. |
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Sunday 1st October 1.30–4pm 2006 Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Festival Mushaira with Aslam Kamal and Michele Roberts (pictured) The Festival welcomed leading Pakistani Poet and calligraphic painter, Aslam Kamal on a rare visit to England. Celebrating Ilkley's Urdu, Hindi, English, Bengali and Gujerati poetry reading – with translations for English speakers.It welcomed some of the most eminent South Asian and English poets in the North. In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb International, Bradford Libraries,Archives and Information Service,The Incwriters Society and Leeds University Creative Writing Course |
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In October 2006, Incwriters were part of a debate about journals and publishing at the Ilkley Literature Festival in Yorkshire. The event aimed to help writers submit work for publication and was chaired by the writer, Char March and featured Tim Robertson (Magma), Shaun Levin (Chroma journal), Andrew Oldham (Incwriters) and poet Pat Borthwick. |
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In 2005 Incwriters, Slate (Cumbria), Manchester Libraries and Geraldine Green worked together to bring Suffolk County's First Poet Laureate, George Wallace, to the UK for a short tour that included venues in Leeds, Manchester and Cumbria. George has engaged audiences internationally from Carnegie Hall to open air festivals, and from tiny coffeeshops and cafes to European palaces. His ninth, tenth and eleventh books were released in 2004, published in Italy, England and in New York, followed by the publication of two more in 2005. He has performed and taught at workshops across America and Europe, appears regularly at Manhattan venues, and on Long Island has for over fifteen years been a driving force in the poetry community, creating radio, television and public performance venues; editing magazine, newspaper and internet publications. |
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Incwriters took Peter Lewin to the USA in 2004 with his critically acclaimed collection, Silverdale. Peter read to audiences at New York's Bowery Poetry Club before travelling to New Orleans. This was a a joint partnership between Kendal Press, Incwriters, The Bowery Poetry Club, Bob Holman, to promote Peter's writing and collection Silverdale in the States. Peter's latest collection, The Pig, is available from Flux Gallery Press here. |
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Dave Wood's poetry project in Northern Ireland started in late August 2004 and finished in September 2004. It saw Dave go to Ireland to give readings, workshops and create new work. Incwriters was happy to sponsor this project and his columns regularly appeared in Incorporating Writing (ISSN 1743-0380) between 2004-2006. A blog of the project can be found here. |
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NEW HOME FOR RECOMMENDATIONS
The Recommended Magazine Listings edited by William Park has moved to a new section on the website called Recommendations. This will house several publications from suggested reading for poets, writers, readers and academics to non-fiction.
It can be used as a study aid or even by UK & Foreign insititutions researching literature. This resource will grow and has been updated with Poetry Recommendations edited by Claire Summers.
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