National Association for Literature Development

NALD is offering one Go and See Bursary to visit Chapter and Verse, the Bluecoat’s literature festival, now in its second year.

Experience a mix of live literature, talks and spoken word, meet the literature programming team, get behind the scenes insights and spend time with Guest Curator, Melanie Abrahams, as she explores potential events for the 2010 festival.

The bursary is particularly suitable for emerging producers, programmers or curators, or writers who produce their own work

You will get free entry to events on Friday 16th October. NALD will cover your travel expenses and offer £50 for the day. For details of the events on offer visit NALD's Events and Training section.

If you wish to take up this opportunity please send a letter explaining what you hope to get out of the opportunity, together with your CV to director@nald.org

Events lined up for the day are:

AM “Real Life Tales” hosted by Mersey Minis: join the team behind the Mersey Minis series for a fun and flexible non-fiction writing workshop, which kicks off the Mersey Minis 2010 writing competition. We'll use a series of practical exercises to get you thinking, composing, describing and writing. No experience or writing history is necessary.    This event is followed later on by a launch of the writing competition

Afternoon North West Publishers: Book Stall Drop in to browse through the latest books by independent publishers based in the North West – from cutting edge to classic, academic to anarchic, there will be a book for all tastes.   

“North West Voices” – fiction and poetry readings with three of the North West’s most exciting new writing talents, Jenn Ashworth, Zoe Lambert & Nathan Jones   

“Is book review a dying art?”: Talk by former Independent on Sunday literary editor Suzi Feay  

Evening “I’ll Tell Me Ma” with Brian Keenan    Reading and conversation with Belfast-born Brian Keenan whose new book, I’ll Tell Me Ma, looks at his boyhood in Belfast and is rich in detail and atmosphere.

“The World According to Vic” with Vic Reeves   Vic Reeves introduces us to the world as he sees it, from asparagus to Zeppelin, via eggs and Henry VIII. Illustrated by Vic himself, his new book amasses all the world’s knowledge into one gloriously preposterous book, written in a scholarly fashion yet comprehensible to idiots. Hosted by Tim Clare, author of We Can’t All Be Astronauts.