Academi 2004 Winner
Anne-Marie Fyfe of London has won the first prize in the Academi's 2004
poetry competition, worth £5,000. For your chance to win the 2005
competition send for an entry form now. www.acamedi.org
WRITERS WANTED
Kwickee Bitesize populates the Mobile Internet
Kwickee Guides Ltd is proud to announce Kwickee Bitesize, a unique
mobile data platform, where people are invited to share knowledge by
submitting text-based information (articles of not more than 5,000
characters) on almost any subject: sport, health, fashion, arts,
science, adult, fiction etc., which is thereafter available for
downloading onto browser-enabled mobile phones. It's the equivalent of
eBay but for trading knowledge, with a library as vast as Amazon and
search capabilities equal to Google.
Kwickee Bitesize, which launches shortly, is host to a wealth of
information (articles, reviews, reports, training, sales messages etc)
written by professionals, the public and marketers, will be available to
a UK market of over 30 million people.
According to research from Jupiter MMXI, the market for mobile content
in Europe is forecast to be worth some €3.3 billion by 2006. Whereas
new research from ARC Group, states that Mobile services worldwide will
be worth a staggering US$126bn by 2008 and will account for almost 20
percent of total mobile operator revenues. With mobile phone operators'
core activities moving away from traditional voice services to more data
based services, Kwickee Bitesize is poised to be at the forefront of the
new mobile internet.
"In today's non-stop 24/7 lifestyle, the need for instant
information is paramount", commented Julian Fisher, Publisher,
Kwickee Guides. "With Kwickee Bitesize, mobile phone users have
access to information quite literally anytime and anywhere, without the
need for a PC. Bitesize content is specifically written for access via
mobile phones."
Journalists search worldwide for old colleagues
Journalists and broadcasters around the world began searching for old
colleagues when the media industry’s first exclusive reunion site at http://www.mediabuddies.com
went live on 26 September 2003
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New books by...
...you!
I've had several new links by authors to link to their website and
that prompted me to thinking that a page dedicated to new books by my
readers and their friends wouldn't go amiss. So, have you got something
to showcase? Mail showcase@writerswebresource.co.uk
and I promise I'll showcase it for you. Items of an explicit nature may
be edited but generally any press release submitted will be published.
This is your page. Use it!
What do you feel like reading today?
Whether you know what you like to read or you have the urge to try
something different 'Book
Forager' is here to help. Created by the Gloucestershire library
service, Book Forager
will help you choose a book by giving you suggestions based on four of the
twelve available book types. You can make choices based on Happy/Sad,
Funny/Serious, Short/Long, etc. The resulting list gives you a quick
synopses of the book along with its ISBN so it should be easy to find at
the library or the book shop.
But isn't part of the fun of looking for a book standing for ages reading
the jackets in book shops?
Whatever you think give Book
Forager a go at
http://www.branching-out.net/forager
Please submit your news to news@writerswebresource.co.uk
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FIRE IN THE HEAD
Tutored by poet and author Roselle Angwin, is an
exciting year round programme of poetry, prose and reflective writing
days, weekends and retreats in stunning locations such as Iona,
Scotland, Devon and Spain.
Read more...
Life Stories - short story
competition run by Lifestory Publishing
and the winners are:
Lawrence Price (Overall Winner)
Ann Dymond (Ancestry winner)
Edwin Danson (Early years winner)
Jon Kenyon (Schooldays winner)
Maggie Innes (Coming of age)
Bernard J Sharps (War years winner)
Ian Searle (Adult years winner)
Sarah Tweddle (Working life winner)
Rose McGregor (Autumn Days winner)
Heather Hyde (Future winner)
These stories have been published in an anthology, Life Stories, that
costs
£9.99 + £2 p&p and is available from Lifestory Publishing at
www.lifestorycompany.co.uk/books
or 0845 644 3403.
Talk cat and be happy
Family partnership, mother Louisa Young and 10 year old daughter Isabel,
has collaborated to write a possible challenger for Harry Potter.
Publisher Puffin, has signed the pair for a three book deal, the first of
which is called Lionboy. It tells the story of Charlie Ashanti who speaks
'cat'. This unusual trait helps him to find his kidnapped parents. The
book is due out in October.
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New Arts Website
The Surface (http://www.surfaceonline.org)
is an independent international arts magazine based in Scotland - it
involves no charge at any time, no pop up ads or dubious sponsorship -
the Surface is self funded by donations. If you would like your work to
be made available to literary agents, art directors and editors then
please feel free to contribute to editor@surfaceonline.org
British Library Web
You will find a bottomless pit of research articles and books at the British
Library in London, but what if you can't get there? No problem. You can
now visit them on-line - www.bl.uk
Duff Cooper Prize
The 48th Duff Cooper Prize was awarded on Thursday 26 February 2004 to Anne Applebaum for her book Gulag: A History of the Soviet
Camps, published by Allen Lane.
At a party given in the Great Room of King's College, London, the historian Antony Beevor presented Anne Applebaum with the prize: a
cheque for £3,000 and a first edition copy of Duff Cooper's autobiography, Old Men Forget. Antony Beevor described Gulag as 'a tour de
force of scholarship, judgement and humanity'. Guests included Joanna
Lumley, David Attenborough, Bamber Gascoigne, Hugo Vickers
and Piers Paul Read.
Antony Beever Photograph by Graham Jepson
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