Dusk: a wave of words across the UK for Winter Solstice 2017
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The 4th Solstice Shorts Festival: Stories Poems & Songs from Inverness to Penzance as darkness falls on the shortest day of the year
Backers: 33
Average Pledge Per Backer: £32
Funded: £1,044 of £2,000
Dates: Sep 3rd -> Oct 3rd (30 days)
Project By: Cherry Jane Potts
Backers: 33
Average Pledge Per Backer: £32
Funded: £1,044 of £2,000
Dates: Sep 3rd -> Oct 3rd (30 days)
Project By: Cherry Jane Potts
£1,044
current pledge level
Last Updated: October 3 @ 11:04 -0400 GMT
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Latest News
Dusk Partner in Rossendale 
October 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Our partner in Rossendale (between Manchester and Lancaster, Halifax and Preston, for those who don't recognise it!) is the Whitaker Museum, Art Gallery & Cultural Hub which houses everything from Victoriana, clogs, and taxidermy (in the shape of... (Read More)
Dusk Partners in Aberdeen
October 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Our most northerly partners (though I was talking to someone yesterday at the Poetry Book Fair about Fairisle as a possibility!) are Intuitive Music Aberdeen, who have found us a lovely bookshop in Ellon for a venue. Intuitive Music Aberdeen (IMA) is... (Read More)
Birmingham Partner for DUSK
September 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Our partners in Birmingham are Unbroken Cocoon, working with GuildTV at the University of Birmingham. They are our livestreaming experts and have found us a lovely pub in Seely Oak for the event there. (Read More)
Bristol partner for Dusk
September 28th - via: kickstarter.com
The Bare Bones Collective is a DIY community project that offers affordable access to rehearsal space, analogue and digital recording equipment. Anna Kissell and Ruth Gordon, began this project with a reel to reel tape machine back in Spring 2016... (Read More)
Dusk: Cornwall- The Writers' Block
September 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
The Writers’ Block is an inspirational creative writing space created by Kernow Education Arts Partnership (KEAP) in Cornwall, as part of The Story Republic programme. The Writers’ Block offers a range of programmes and activities for schools,... (Read More)
Submissions open for writers
September 20th - via: kickstarter.com
We have opened the call out for material to be performed at Solstice Shorts 2017, DUSK: A Wave of Words Across the UK. The call out is only open to wroters and musicians in the UK. Lots more info, and submissions via submittable. Stories up to 1500... (Read More)
Partners in North Devon
September 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Our North Devon Partners are Courage Copse Creatives, a woodland enterprise based in Warkleigh, near Barnstaple. The enterprise operates completely off-grid using solar power and rain water harvesting. They manage the woodland and make their living... (Read More)
Pippa Gladhill on what it's like to be published by Arachne Press
September 18th - via: kickstarter.com
The short story in the U.K was an endangered species, to the the extent that S.O.S (Save Our Short Story) campaign was set up – to sustain opportunities for this most precise and economic of literary genres. Apparently things are much improved now... (Read More)
Welsh Partners for Dusk
September 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Our Welsh partners for DUSK are Cybi Poets on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Ness Owen is a writer, playwright and poet who lectures at a FE college. We published her poem in Shortest Day, Longest Night and it was performed at last year's Solstice Shorts... (Read More)
Inverness Partners
September 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Our Inverness partners Sherry Morris and Phil Baarda organise the scratch night at Eden Place in Inverness. They are being incredibly generous with their time and energy and even their home – have you seen the crowd fund reward they have on offer?... (Read More)
New video, new reward, new partner!
September 16th - via: kickstarter.com
I've uploaded a longer video which hopefully is more informative - it starts the same but goes on... We've decided to take a risk and race the book out in time for the festival, so it will (SHORTLY) be available as a reward too. We'll worry about... (Read More)
Our Carlisle Partners
September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Carlisle Patchwork Opera is a fluid group of writers (prose, poetry, script, song), musicians, photographers, film-makers, visual artists. For the past two years, as part of their activities they have put together a themed programme to celebrate... (Read More)
New Reward! weekend in Scotland
September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
weekend in Scotland Our Inverness organisers Sherry and Phil are offering to host one person (or a couple) for a weekend in their gorgeous farmhouse about 1/2 hour drive outside Inverness. (Their bit is to the right of the archway in the... (Read More)
Another writer writes about being involved in Solstice Shorts
September 13th - via: kickstarter.com
You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content. Play Replay with sound Play with sound 00:00 00:00 David Mathews is one of 5 winners of our first Solstice Shorts short story competition It’s hard to beat writing for grandchildren, but... (Read More)
What's it like to take part in Solstice Shorts?
September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Some feedback from one of our authors involved in Solstice Shorts Shortest Day last year, David Steward From a personal perspective, it provided me with an opportunity to publish and read a story (The Cutty Wren) which highlighted the experience of... (Read More)
New badges available : Arachne5
September 12th - via: kickstarter.com
#Arachne5 badges Latest addition to the rewards- new badge design for Arachne Press' 5th anniversary. If you would like one, just use the 'badges' reward and specify Arachne5 when we ask you which you would like! We are making 'Dusk' badges later... (Read More)
Dusk- Nottingham Partners
September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Our Nottingham partners for DUSK, The fourth Solstice Shorts Festival, are Nottingham Writers' Studio, a membership organisation for professional writers. They offer space, networking, and creative and professional development opportunities for... (Read More)
Just arrived, the actual purple prose pouch
September 9th - via: kickstarter.com
I love this reward. How can you resist! If, unlike Mama Moomintroll or Wizard Rincewind, you have neither a capacious and highly organised handbag nor a sentient pear wood trunk to hold your belongings, this is the very item for you! (the colour in... (Read More)
Lancaster...
September 6th - via: kickstarter.com
As information comes in from our partners and collaborators, I will be doing showcases of them and their work. So excited to be working with such innovative and dynamic people! Let me introduce you to the Lancaster organisers, brimming with energy... (Read More)
Cornwall organiser confirmed
September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Delighted to announce that we have a Cornish organiser based in Redruth on board. So it is absolutely all systems go. I will be introducing the organisers one by one as their responses to my questions filter back. (Read More)
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