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Derry
Playhouse Writers Newsletter
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Derry
Playhouse Writers Newsletter
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Vol. 1 - No. 7
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5 - 7 Artillery Street, Derry BT48 6GR
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September 2001
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Congratulations to: Cecilia McAllister who is currently developing her feature One Last Chance with North by Northwest as a member of their script development workshop. This is a series of intensive sessions taking place in three different countries over a six month period. Margie Bernard whose one-hour interview with Helen Dewar, Arts and
Culture MC on the newly established Inishowen Peninsula Radio, was aired
on Sunday, 5 August 2001. New Vice-Chair: The Management Committee is pleased to announce that Madeline McCully
has graciously consented to fill the vacancy of Vice-Chair of the Management
Committee. Management Committee: Mentors: David Gothard and Brian Foster. 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! REMINDER:
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 e-mail her at: margiebdc@eircom.net. Please keep
this entry under four to five lines! 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. We now have a telephone: 028 71 281 111 (from NI) 048 71 281 111 (from RI).
Newsletter Items We welcome your contributions to our newsletter. If you know of upcoming events or contests, please let us know so they can be included in future newsletters. It is preferable that 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. |
Second Annual General Membership Meeting: Our second AGM will be held on Wednesday, 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. Final Reminder: Yabo Yablonsky Script Writing Master Class (play and film) begins Tuesday, 9 October 2001 @ 2:00pm. You need to sign up in advance so please do so ASAP to ensure your enrollment. Yablonsky will also direct his play 'Jews Without Money' featuring local talent. There are 18 roles in this play, six of them for young people under the age of 20. A casting call will be sent to all of you shortly with a description of the roles to be cast. However, in the interim please let us know if you are interested in auditioning. We will also notify drama classes at local secondary 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. DPW Journal: Submissions must be received by 15 September 2001.
The Millennium Scribblers Poetry & Short Story Competition 2001. The winners will be published on the Millennium Scribblers' Website. The Category A (those aged 18+) winner in each section will receive œ60; Category B (those aged between 13-17) will receive œ10. For more information and an entry form send an e-mail to: tina.brady@ntlworld.com or check their web-site at www.geocities.com/scribblers_2000. You may also obtain information by sending a SASE to: Millennium Scribblers Poetry & Short Story Competition, 6 Connors Row, Gilford BT63 6JG. Deadline for submission is 5pm, 14 September 2001 Patrick Kavanaugh Poetry Competition: Wanted between 20 and 30 unpublished poems, none of which can be more than 40 lines long. Entry fee is œ10 and to obtain an entry form write: Patrick Kavanaugh Society, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan or e-mail daig@eircom.net. Closing Date is 30 September 2001. Francis MacManus Short Story Competition: The pot is €4,000 this year, and winners also have their 15 minutes of fame when their stories are broadcast on RT Radio 1. Copy of rules obtained from: Francis MacManus Awards, RT Radio Centre, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Closing date is 14 September 2001. If you know of any other contests we should consider entering, please submit them to DPW. Save Any Rejection Slips! 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. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words
of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really [need]
know. Life is an adventure of losing your way....certainly a life of writing...is
a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless
you lose your way.
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