Posts by: Neil Fulwood
Our grateful thanks to George Szirtes for a thorough and thoughtful adjudication, and congratulations to the winners: 1st Prize: ‘Sand Burial’ by Abigail Zammit 2nd Prize: ‘Facebook Profile’ by C.J. Allen 3rd Prize: ‘Views of Love’ by Rita Ray Commended: ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp’ by Al McClimens ‘Hide Seek Find Further North’ [...]
Read More →After the massive success of last year’s inaugural Alan Sillitoe Memorial Open Poetry Competition – adjudicated by Ruth Fainlight and paying out £350 in prize money – we’re doing the same again this year. And we’re honoured to announce that George Szirtes – winner of the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize – will be our final [...]
Read More →Dear Alan, I’m in good company today. But do I have a right to be here? I’m not in any way suggesting it’s presumptuous of me to button-hole you; to give you, whether you want it or not, when you can’t shut me up, when you can’t answer back, a piece of my, for what [...]
Read More →Sillitoe Day 2012, Nottingham’s second all-day event celebrating the life and work of Alan Sillitoe, is tomorrow. Tickets are still available and – better still – available on the door. Just turn up from 11am – 5pm at the Nottingham Contemporary and join us for … The launch of the Sillitoe Trail [...]
Read More →‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ as a stage play?!?! Impossible, surely? Actually, it’s very possible. And Pilot Theatre are about to show the good folk of Nottingham exactly how it’s done. Following the play’s well-received debut at Pilot Theatre’s home town of York, and having toured Birmingham, Durham and Ipswich in the last [...]
Read More →The date: Saturday 27 October 2012. The venue: Nottingham Contemporary. The event: Sillitoe Day 2012, Nottingham’s second all-day event celebrating the life and work of Alan Sillitoe. Join us from 11am – 5pm for … The launch of the Sillitoe Trail mobile phone app The launch of Alan’s seminal novel ‘The Open Door’, republished by Five Leaves [...]
Read More →The Goose Fair has been a prominent fixture in the local calendar for as far back as 1160, with only an outbreak of leprosy in 1346, the bubonic plague of 1646, and the great Wars of the 20th century bringing it to a temporary close. So there’s a fair bit of history surrounding this annual festival. [...]
Read More →Sillitoe Season 2012 has been a huge success so far, from the Alan Sillitoe Memorial Lunch with guest of honour John Harvey back in April to last weekend’s screening of ‘The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner’ introduced by William Ivory at Nottingham’s Broadway cinema. Now comes the biggest day in the calendar. The date: [...]
Read More →June’s ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ event at the Nottingham Contemporary was a massive success: one great movie, two great bands and a proper Nottingham night out. Now we have two more dates for your diary and they’re going to be just as memorable: Sunday 16th September 2012, Broadway Cinema Nottingham: ‘The Loneliness of [...]
Read More →A huge ‘thank you’ to Clive Allen, writes committee member Viv Apple. Clive (who writes as C.J. Allen) is a poet and the winner of many awards and prizes for his poetry, not least first prize earlier this year in the Alan Sillitoe Memorial Poetry Competition. Read his winning entry, ‘Poems to My Horse’, here. [...]
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