Derry Playhouse Writers Keep on Writing! 5-7 Artillery Street Editor: Margie Bernard Derry BT48 6RG Website: www.derryplayhousewriters.org Tel: 028 71 268 027 (NI) 048 71 268 027 (RI) Vol. 1 - No. 8, October 2001 Congratulations to: Louis Burns, Executive Producer of Derry Musicians and Artists for Foyle Hospice for completion of a CD dedicated to the memory of former DPW member Steven Connolly. The CD will be launched at Sandino's Pub, Derry on Thursday, 4 October 2001 @ 2:30pm. Congratulation also to two other DPW mem bers: Madeline McCully, for the cover design, and Aisling Doherty, one of its vocalists. The CD will be available at Cool Disks on Strand Road with proceeds donated to Foyle Hospice. Final Reminder: Yabo Yablonsky Script Writing Master Class (play and film) begins Tuesday, 9 October 2001 @ 2:00pm. There are a few openings still available. To enroll, contact Margie Bernard at 353 77 60001. There is no fee for this work shop. Yablonsky will also direct his play 'Jews With out Money' featuring local talent. There are 18 roles in this play, six of them for young people under the age of 20.Auditions will be held 8, 9, 10 & 11 October atthe Derry Playhouse beginning at 4:00pm. We have notified drama classes at local second ary schools and youth drama groups as well as adult drama groups. If you know of any such groups we should contact, please let us know. Perseverance Pays Award: Our first annual Perseverance Pays Award will be given to the writer who has received the most rejection slips this past year! This will be award- ed at our Annual General Membership Meeting 17 October 2001. Second Annual General Membership Meeting: Our second AGM will be held on Wednesday, 17 October 2001 beginning at 2:00pm in our office/meeting room on the second floor of 10-16 Pump Street. As required by our Constitution, we will consider the Annual Report of work done by or under the auspices of the Management Committee; a report of our financial status; election of officers and members to serve on the Management Committee; and the transaction of other such matters as may be considered necessary. We will be sending you additional information prior to our meeting. If you cannot attend but wish to have some matter considered by the AGM, please submit it in writing no later than 10 October 2001. Management Committee: Officers: Chair: Ellen Factor 028 71 284 984 Vice-Chair: Madeline McCully 028 71 350 612 Secretary/Treasurer: Margie Bernard 353 77 60001 General Members: Ann Keys Colton 028 82 247 404 Bridie Conefry 353 75 51288 Joe Duggan 028 71 360 754 Eugene Floyd 0780 823 8709 Don McCamphill 028 25 638 682 Mentors: David Gothard and Brian Foster. Contests & Competitions: The Trewithen Poetry Prize. Cash Awards for winners of poetry with a rural theme. Entry form obtained from: The Trewithen Poetry Prize; Chy-An-Dour; Trewithen Moor; Sithiams, Truro, Cornwall TR3 7DU (enclose an SAE with re quest) or a form may be downloaded from www.trewithenpoetry.co.uk. Closing Date: 31 October 2001 International Poetry Competition. Cash prizes range from 80 to 660. Poems may be either in English or Irish. Entry forms & guidelines available from your local library or www.dlrcoco.ie/library. Closing date: 6 October 2001. If you know of any other contests we should consider entering, please submit them to DPW. DPW Weekly Workshop: We provide tea, support and sympathy for lost and lonely writers! Get out of your garret and join us at our space located at 10-16 Pump Street, second floor, every Wednesday from Noon until 4:00pm. Newsletter Items: We welcome your contributions to our newslet ter. If you know of upcoming events or contests, please let us know so they can be included in future newsletters. It is preferable these be in writing and sent to: DPW, Derry Playhouse, 5-7 Artillery Street, Derry BT48 6RG. You may also e-mail these to margiebdc@eircom.net. Submissions Welcomed: The Residents Writers Review seeks poetry, short stories, extracts from a novel you're working on and/or article of interest to writers and writers groups. For further info contact Tina Brady on 07990 888 219 or via e-mail on tina.brady@ntlworld.com. This publication is a new quarterly magazine which contains reviews, competitions, information, etc., and has been funded by ABC Millennium Awards Scheme. DPW Website: For previous newsletters, events, contests, Master Classes, projects, etc., consult our website www.derryplayhousewriters.org. If you want a brief biographical entry listed on our Website please post this to Margie Bernard at the address listed on the masthead of this newsletter or at margiebdc@eircom.net. Please keep this entry under four to five lines! Remember: If you order books on-line, please do so from the Amazon.co.uk listed on our website. DPW receives a percentage of each sale which, once this reaches œ10, is directly deposited into our Bank of Ireland account. Please tell your friends and acquaintance to order via our website as well. But please remember you must do this from our website connection to Amazon.co.uk. Recommended Reading: Solutions for Novelists: Secrets of a Master Editor by Sol Stein. Souvenir Press. DPW Office We share office space with the Derry Film Initiative folk which is also where we hold our weekly workshop. This is located at 10-16 Pump Street on the second floor. There is a bulletin board with items of interest and we are in the process of establishing a library of books and journals donations are most welcome. So many gods, so many creeds, / So many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind / Is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The World's Need. Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel T. Coleridge, Table Talk.