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Two Rivers Book Festival runs until 30th June

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Liz Calder

Liz Calder – Two Rivers Book Festival patron

Our first Two Rivers Book Festival, running from 16th to 30th June 2019, centres around the appreciation of books, from how they’re made to how they get to you. We are lucky to have a number of independent bookshops, second-hand bookshops and libraries in our locality, and we want to celebrate their important work.

Our programme of events is supported by our distinguished patron, Liz Calder. She has been at the forefront of British publishing for over 40 years, including as a judge for the Booker prize.

Liz Calder will be chairing two conversations looking at threats and opportunities in publishing, one of which is in collaboration with the Southwold Arts Festival. We are screening The Bookshop film in Halesworth and Southwold. Our workshops actively explore book-binding, letterpress printing, and folded book art. The four independent bookshops in our area will have special events during the fortnight of the festival (some listed on the Associated Events page). Two of our programme of walks have a booky air to them – Flower Fairies and Uncovering Doggerland. We have assembled comprehensive directories of independent bookshops – those selling new books and those selling second-hand – and of libraries.

And to round off the festival there’s a weekend of book-themed events, as well as food and drink, at the Low House in Laxfield – see Associated Events

Finally, you’ll find odd items of related book news here.

Make Your Mark exhibition, Ferini Gallery Pakefield

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Mark BAKER – Mark BURRELL – Mark CHURCHMAN – Mark WARD

The four Marks’ that have been invited to showcase their work in this exhibition, aptly named ‘Make Your Mark’ at Ferini Gallery in Pakefield near Lowestoft, have created works of art by ‘making marks’ into something that we can interpret as a painting and that we understand or feel a resonance with. Also that we may or may not wish to have hanging on our walls in our homes.
The exhibition runs from 14th June to 7th July, open Friday to Sundays 11am to 4pm. The private view is on Sunday 15th June from 6:30pm to 8pm.

Waveney Heritage Centre

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We are a  young organization  dedicated to “Giving Our Past A Future”. We organize walks, concerts, stories, courses, projects and exhibitions, all from our wonderful facility based in the old school at Brockdish in the beautiful and ancient Waveney Valley.


The  old school building  has facilities for talks, study and exhibitions. There is a north-facing studio with water, work benches, tables and storage space.


The lecture room has seating for about fifty people with  a service hatch to a kitchen with hot water, tea /coffee making  equipment, sinks etc. All or part of the entire school space  is available for short or longer rent for interested groups

www.waveneyheritage.org

 

Lowestoft Longshoremen

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The Lowestoft Longshoremen shanty group sing an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary shanties and sea songs. They formed about 10 years ago by a group of friends with a passion for songs of the sea, and are now firmly part of the shanty music scene in the East Suffolk & South Norfolk area. They charge a minimum fee for normal events but we are a non profit organisation that likes to support local charities, so if when asked to play at charity fundraising events, they usually make no charge. For enquiries, please email [email protected]

Suffolk Poetry Society – George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition

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Crabbe Poetry Competition 2019
Only a month to get your entries in…
closing date for the competition is 29th June 2019

FIRST PRIZE £600

SECOND PRIZE £300

THIRD PRIZE £150

PLUS TWO HIGHLY COMMENDED PRIZES OF £75 EACH

Sponsored by Fairweather Law Ltd Solicitors at Aldeburgh, Felixstowe and Leiston
We are very pleased that Tiffany Atkinson has agreed to be our adjudicator for the 2019 Crabbe Poetry Prize. She is the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, has published several collections of Poetry, including Kink and Particle (which won the Jerwood Aldeburgh first collection Prize) Catulla et al (which was TLS Book of the Year) and So Many Moving Parts (which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award – Wales book of the Year). She has a strong interest in the medical humanities, especially the history of anatomy and representations of the body and has written several critical essays about the poetics of embarrassment.

The closing date for the competition is 29th June 2019.

CLICK HERE to enter online

Entry fees: £3 for each poem.

We need two copies of your poem, one with and one without your name. Copy the poem onto two pages in a single document with your name on one page only. Upload in either Word or PDF format.

You may enter multiple poems by staying on the page, uploading each poem and clicking Add to Basket each time.

Make any postal queries to:

The Competition Secretary, 23 Century Road, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7LE

Or email [email protected]

The competition is open to anyone who was either born, educated, working or resident in Suffolk, or is a Suffolk Poetry Society member. 

All winning poems (including commended poems not attracting a monetary prize) will be read, preferably by their authors, at a celebratory Awards Event in early October (TBA) and will be included in the 2019 Crabbe Poetry Prize Anthology.

Anthologies can be pre-ordered at the cost of £2.50 here. For those unable to attend the Awards Event, these will be posted free of charge. Subsequent orders will attract an additional postage and packing charge of £1.50.

Note that you can only upload one poem at a time. To enter several poems, add them to the shopping basket one at a time as separate items. It might appear that you can upload a number on the same order, but only the final one will show on your order and the rest will be lost.

Competition Rules:

• Entrants should either have been born, or educated, work or be resident in Suffolk, or be a member of Suffolk Poetry Society (see information below).
• Poems should be in English and a maximum of 50 lines.
• Poems must be the writer’s own work, not published, broadcast, on a website, or currently entered in any other competition.
• Each poem must be typed on a separate sheet of A4 paper and submitted in DUPLICATE with the fee. The poet’s name should appear on one copy only.
• The adjudicator’s decision is final.
• No entrant can win more than one monetary prize.
• Only winners will be notified. Winners will be listed on the website in September 2019.
• The Press will also be notified of the winning poets and poems.
• Copyright of the poem remains with the poet, with permission to the Suffolk Poetry Society to publish any winning poem free of charge.

Sandy Horsley

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I am an award-winning illustrator, writer and printmaker. I have a BA in graphics and illustration and an MA in children’s book illustration. My first picture book is due to be published in 2020. In my illustration work, I combine traditional printmaking and drawing with digital processes.

In 2018 I was a winner in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators ‘Undiscovered Voices’ and was longlisted in the ‘Noirwich’ Flash Fiction awards.

Exhibited nationally and internationally: Bankside London (selected for the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Exhibition) and Bologna Italy (Bologna Children’s Book Fair).

www.sandyhorsley.com Instagram: @sandyhorsley    Blog: www.sandyhorsley.com/blog

Laura Andrews

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Botanical art and illustration Inspired by British wildflowers and quintessentially English nature.

Laura often illustrated plants found in her garden as a child, she’s always been enchanted by nature and the landscape in her Suffolk home. After completing her BA Hons degree in Fine Art Laura went onto a career as an Art Consultant, selling artwork around the world. However, 10 years later she decided to pick up the paint brush again to document her natural surroundings.

Inspired by British wildflowers, grasses and quintessentially English nature her vibrant artwork documents the wild plants that are fast decreasing across the UK – Did you know that 97% of our British meadows have disappeared since the 1930’s? Illustrating wildflowers often found on the roadside Laura’s gouche and watercolour artwork finds beauty in unexpected places. She creates miniature, natural worlds you can get lost in, just like Alice in Wonderland.

Laura can often be found exploring the Norfolk Broads on her boat with her travel easel, pooch and sketchbook. She regularly walks along the Suffolk coastline… You can follow her inspirations and studio life via Instagram: @lauraandrewsstudio

Halesworth Bookshop

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Situated in Halesworth close to St Mary’s Church and the Market Place Halesworth Bookshop is the place to go for a satisfying browse. The shop is well stocked with a wide range of fiction, non-fiction, maps, cookery books, travel guides and a most impressive selection of local books. The children’s department, which caters for all ages and reading abilities, has a magnificent “Where the Wild Things Are” inspired mural and hosts regular story telling and craft sessions. Checkout our Facebook page for details of upcoming events both for children and adults.  There is also a large choice of greeting cards, postcards, notebooks, gift wrap and other stationery items with items from Woodmansterne, Paperblanks, Leonard Smith and Great British Cards. Finally if you still can’t find what you want Halesworth Bookshop offers a fast and efficient ordering service for books, second-hand books, DVDs and CDs.

Contact: [email protected]

Suffolk Open Studios

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June sees the welcome return of Suffolk Open Studios. Every weekend, artists will be opening their studios to allow visitors a unique opportunity to watch them at work and quiz them about their creative process. This year’s programme runs over all five weekends, commencing Saturday 1st, with over 100 artists and eight galleries. Studios are open 11am-5pm and entry is free.

Participating artists come from every corner of the art world and will be showing work across a wide choice of mediums. This year sees a number of changes in response to feedback: simplified maps make it easier find members’ studios, while a new “Meet the Artist” section highlights the finalists who competed to be the “face” of Suffolk Open Studios on this year’s posters, flyers and directory. Two features which have been retained are the well-liked members’ trails and hubs: full details appear on the website and in the 2019 directory.

Visitors can learn about artists, view their work, check times and plan their route by visiting the website at www.suffolkopenstudios.org. They should also look out for posters, flyers and the pocket-size directories in galleries, libraries and tourist information centres everywhere or download a copy from the website. They can also follow Suffolk Open Studios on Facebook and Instagram: search for @suffolkopenstudios.

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