GRASSROUTES Project

£1,000 Creative Writing Commission

GRASSROUTES: Contemporary Leicestershire Writing is an Arts Council funded project based at the School of English in the University of Leicester.

GRASSROUTES promotes public knowledge of Leicestershire’s diverse literary cultures. It fosters local, national and international appreciation of quality transcultural writing in the county.

We are now inviting applications from writers living in Leicestershire for a £1,000 creative writing commission, which will take the form of a short story, long poem, poem sequence or performance piece that is also suited to the page. The work should be a maximum of 5,000 words or should take up no more than 5 pages in the case of poetry.

The commissioned work will be featured at two GRASSROUTES exhibitions of creative writing in Leicestershire Libraries and in the David Wilson Library at the University of Leicester (to coincide with the Literary Leicester festival).

The commissioned work should take ‘transcultural Leicester’ as its central theme. The successful applicant will receive £1,000 for their work, including all expenses.

Applicants should submit the following in electronic form:

• A CV detailing your writing experience

• A publications list

• A sample of creative work (3 pages max)

• An outline proposal for the commission

These should be sent to Corinne Fowler at csf11@le.ac.uk no later than 20th April 2011

The application will be considered by a panel drawn from the project partners and will be chaired by Professor Graham Mort from the Centre for Transcultural Writing & Research at Lancaster University. All applicants will be informed of our decision by June 10th 2011.

For information about the project see: www2.le.ac.uk/departments/ english/research/grassroutes

Charnwood Arts and The Literature Network (Writing Industries Network) are involved as a steering group members of this project.