Indie Novella are inviting local community members to join them from 1pm to 3pm at Newington Green Meeting House where they will be hosting some drinks and nibbles followed by a panel discussion with local authors to tell everyone more about the project, how Indie Novella is bringing more local writers into publishing, and how you and your community can be involved.
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Newington Green Meeting House events page.
Indie Novella will accept any form of writing, be it excerpts from novels, short stories, poetry, essays, opinions etc, and your thoughts on what it is like to be part of a community. Those interested in submitting their writing can do so here.
Indie Novella are delighted to launch a special and specific Hackney / Haringey / surrounding areas Call for Submissions, with a chance to get an extract of your work published in an anthology showcasing the work of local writers, and win £100 in book vouchers from Ink@84 Bookshop. Indie Novella are publishing an anthology specifically to showcase the work of local writers in Hackney, Haringey and the neighbouring areas and would love to hear from you and showcase your work. Please find the details below: https://www.indienovella.co.uk/local-voices
One of the key reason Indie Novella was set up was to give a voice to writers whose stories previously went unheard. As such Indie Novella is looking to create a 'living novel' full of stories from the communities closest to us. Funded by the Arts Council, and through the contributions of local writers, be it experienced authors or first time writers, we are creating an anthology which will showcase the writing of the residents of Hackney, Haringey and the surrounding areas and will demonstrate the changing face of our communities and what they means to us, right now.
You can submit anything between 30 and 5,000 words - an extract of a novel, a short story, poetry, essays, opinion pieces - and it can cover any theme just as long as it is your own work. Your extract also does not need to be in English and we welcome submissions in any language.
With each submission Indie Novella also want to hear about you and your story. It can be a couple of hundred words or quite a bit longer, and can be anything you want - what being a resident of Hackney, Haringey, Highbury etc means to you; how you came to live here; how you feel it has changed in your time; or just about you and anything you want to say. We want our anthology to provide an authentic representation of the wide and varied voices of our communities and showcase the creativity that stems from them.
The idea is to create a 'time capsule' especially post-pandemic of what it means to be a resident in London and what our communities are really like.
One entry will win £100 of book vouchers from Ink@84 Bookshop in Highbury and a host of others will be published in our 'living novel'.
You can submit your contributions over email to info@indienovella.co.uk or through the link below. Please feel free to ask any questions.
https://www.indienovella.co.uk/local-voices
