NALD Staff and Board
This six month professional development scheme has been run by NALD and its partners over the last three years, and the present set of participants are just about to complete their work together. Participants taking part this year have included Jo Hurst, Punam Ramchurn, Crista Ermiya, Patricia Arthurs and Naomi Waddis.
In July 2007 James Purnell, the Secretary of State for Culture, asked Sir Brian McMaster, former Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, to undertake a review to report on: how the system of public sector support for the arts can encourage excellence, risk-taking and innovation; how artistic excellence can encourage wider and deeper engagement with the arts by audiences; how to establish a light touch and non-bureaucratic method to judge the quality of the arts in the future.
You can now read the report on the Department for Culture Media and Sport website.
Thank you to all those who took part in NALD’s 3-day literature development Expo Only Connect this October. Podcasts and Notes from the event will be made available on the site in the coming weeks.
NALD hosted a literature festivals day on behalf of the Scottish Arts Council at the Stirling Tolbooth this November. Read the programme and notes from the event here.
Latest happenings in the world of literature development.
NALD Magazine: Issue 5 Available
The fifth issue of NALD's Literature Professional Magazine is available to download now.
Edwin Morgan’s Book of Lives wins Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award
The winner was announced at the annual Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards ceremony which this year was held at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, and hosted by writer and comedian Rory Bremner.
Writing in Healthcare - Words for Well-being
The National Writers' Centre for Wales in conjunction with Academi is running this course which will provide an introduction to the theory and practice of using the literary arts as an integral part of healthcare.
Anne Sherman, LDO for Cheshire and Regional Reader Development Officer for the West Midlands has been commissioned to write an article on libraries and literature festivals. Are NALD members aware of any literature development research by practitioners?
Urban Words Launches New Web Resource
The aim of the website is to start a conversation about the role of creative writing and creative writers in the process of regeneration, suggest possible ways of working, and celebrate and raise the profile of existing writing-based projects.
Launch of new website selling CDs from some of the UK's best performance poets
Soundblast, a collaboration between The Poetry Book Society (PBS) and Apples & Snakes, sells the work of over forty established and emerging artists including Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemn Sissay, Billy Childish, Beyonder and Agnes Meadows.
UrbanWords is publishing a new web resource showcasing critical thinking and best practice in the field of literature and regeneration.
Creative Writing Teaching Opportunities
The English Department at the Open University is launching a new undergraduate Level 3 course and is keen to recruit suitably qualified, part-time Associate Lecturers to teach groups of 16-20 students.
The Village Storytelling Centre in Glasgow is looking for a creative individual to take up the key role of Director (job share).
Venue Manager: Cambridge Central Library
An opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual to manage the newly refurbished Cambridge Central Library which will offer an outstanding environment for a range of corporate, public and community events and activities.
