Profwriting.com
Profwriting.com, a Cornish website for aspiring writers, is showcasing the best new South West talent, bringing together leading arts groups and writers in the region for their Write Out Of The West event. Heads & Tales from Bristol will have an interactive word installation and will lead story trails around the site and Miracle Theatre will host the finale of its scriptwriting competition and invite the audience to vote for the winner.
Festival-goers can expect an insight into the world of writing from profwriting.com’s contributing authors, editors and agents, plus informal interviews, feedback sessions and signings.
Writer, composer and radio producer Paul Dodgson will be running morning writing workshops, giving you the chance to write or record short dispatches about your festival experience. Oscar-winning film-maker Jane Pugh will host open-mic sessions for people to read or perform their work on their new writing stage and community radio station, The Source 96.1FM will broadcast live from the festival and capture performances to stream on the internet.
Profwriting.com is an online writers’ resource created by the MA Professional Writing course team and students at University College Falmouth for writers who want to brush up their skills and have their work critiqued by peers and experts. Offering resources for writers and industry information, it’s a community of like-minded writers working in all genres and forms, mentoring with practising authors and online writing courses.
www.profwriting.com
Miracle Theatre Company is one of Britain’s foremost outdoor theatre companies, and has been touring innovative productions of classic works and new writing across the UK for over 30 years. It is one of Cornwall’s most distinctive voices, with a reputation for entertaining, intelligent, very funny and often startlingly original theatre that builds instant rapport with audiences.
Heads & Tales, a Bristol-based new writing company specialising in site-specific and live literature, has run a number of community-based literature projects, worked with Bristol Old Vic, Bath Fringe Festival, Bristol Festival of Nature and Secret Garden Party, and is currently producing a series of audio stories for walking routes in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, funded by Bristol and South Gloucestershire Councils.
The Source 96.1FM was the first successful community radio application to Ofcom for a full time, locally operated radio station to deliver community self-empowerment through broadcasting. Run by volunteers, it broadcasts a diverse range of programmes, from a community soap opera to music, comedy and chat shows.
Paul Dodgson, a Bristol-based writer, composer and radio producer, has written 12 plays for Radio 4 and produced and directed more than 400 programmes for BBC radio. He is currently writer-in-residence at Exeter University.
Jane Pugh is a writer, script editor, filmmaker and associate artist at Hall for Cornwall. Two of her short films have been produced with the support of the UK Film Council and her stage plays have toured with the support of Arts Council England. One of her films won an Oscar for best student foreign film.
FEAST is a programme that makes great art happen across Cornwall.
FEAST’S ambition is to touch and inspire people and generate a whole new wave of creative activity in our communities. There are opportunities for audiences to enjoy events, but the focus is on bringing people together to take part in creative projects, and on animating local celebrations and cultural life.
