Openstories

12/08/2014

Attention bloggers and blog-enthusiasts: The Blog North Awards is now accepting entries for 2014! Enter your own blog or someone else's before the September 8 deadline: http://www.blognorthawards.com/

Blog North Awards were established in 2012, following on from the Manchester Blog Awards, and take place at The Deaf Institute on Wednesday 17 October 2012

23/06/2014

Poet Jo Bell comes to Manchester Central Library to deliver a workshop on marketing your writing tomorrow night - 6-8pm, £7.

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/shout-about-it-marketing-your-writing-with-jo-bell-tickets-11691508617

17/06/2014

Hey folks, still a few slots left on tonight's workshop with Chris Horkan on how to pimp up your blog or website. 6-8pm at Manchester Central Library, £7 - book here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-it-look-good-blog-and-website-design-with-chris-horkan-tickets-11691460473

Join us to learn how to give your blog a facelift or make your online presence more original. We’ll talk about using free platforms like Wordpress, Blogger and Tumblr to create an eye-catching blog or a professional-standard website to serve as a home for your writing, publications, news and bio – o…

22/05/2014

Writers! Bloggers! Take a look at our series of workshops happening at Manchester Central Library this June and July. With sessions on marketing your work, site design, firing up your blog and exploring creative writing with the likes of Jo Bell and Steve Dearden, we're giving you four opportunities to kick your writing up a notch. Don't miss out!
http://www.librarylive.co.uk/event/openstories-fire-up-your-blog/

Manchester writing organisation Openstories hosts a workshop series in June and July aimed at emerging writers and bloggers looking to take their work to the next level. In these four relaxed and friendly sessions on Tuesday evenings we’ll cover the basics of marketing your writing, designing an eff…

05/02/2014

Some great essays published recently over on our creative nonfiction site, The Real Story: In Search of the Perseids by Naomi Racz and Notes from the Smoking Garden by Max Dunbar. http://bit.ly/1exhYln

Several years ago, I was standing in the market place of the small South Lincolnshire town where I was born and grew up. It...

17/03/2013

After a very long hibernation, we're happy to report that our online creative nonfiction project The Real Story has resumed publishing. Hooray! We welcome submissions of original essays, reviews and guest posts. On Twitter at , site here: http://therealstory.org/

Several years ago, I was standing in the market place of the small South Lincolnshire town where I was born and grew up. It...

08/08/2012

Nice lookin' job going with our friends at They Eat Culture.

They Eat Culture, an innovative arts organisation working from a studio theatre space at The Continental in Preston, Lancashire, are looking for a range of individuals who can deliver exciting and stimulating workshops in the arts. We run several ongoing programmes and look to bring together a ...

08/08/2012

Manchester's finest true stories, live... tonight.

08/08/2012

The Night Light magazine is looking for submissions. Nice illustration, guys.

15/05/2012

We're hard at work on a funding application this week. Lots to tell you soon! In the meantime, though, you might want to get involved in The Complete History of Drinking in the Northern Quarter, a transmedia arts project that is gathering words, pictures, video and audio to create a collective social history of this facinating place. http://www.northernquarterstories.org/

A major new arts project celebrating 240 years of drinking and thinking from the industrial revolution to the digital age. Created, curated and produced by Mark Babych, Michael Trainor and You. 240 years of drinking and thinking leading up to one incredible night out.

13/03/2012

New York is a great city for nonfiction, and these guys are part of the reason wy. Great stuff.

Please join us this week for the March 2012 installment of FREERANGE NONFICTIONWednesday, March 7th at PIANOS NYC (158 Ludlow) Doors open at 7 p.m. Admission: $8 includes free raffle ticket Hosted by Freerange Founder & Mommabird, Mira Ptacin

17/01/2012

Truth tellers: you might enjoy this razor sharp essay on the grand dame of the personal essay, Joan Didion http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/the-autumn-of-joan-didion/8851/

The writer’s work is a triumph—and a disaster.

20/12/2011

Hi everyone, thanks for your patience as we breathe life into this new Facebook creature. It's alive!