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AUGUST 2022

Squad News: We're Hiring!

Hello!

Before we get down to telling you about everything the Squad has been up to over the past couple of months, we have an exciting announcement to make.

The Squad is hiring!

The fantastic Francesca Haig is moving back to Australia, so we are looking for a writer with a specialism in prose fiction to join our core team. 

If you are someone passionate about writers and new writing, who gets up in the morning excited by the prospect of working with other writers and is able to balance this with your own writing career, then please apply!

Full details of this freelance post, which pays £5,500 for roughly 35 days a year, can be downloaded here. Click this link to find the information in large print and audio formats.

The closing date for applications is noon on Tuesday 20th September. Interviews will take place on Thursday 29th September in Leeds. We will reply to all applications and we will cover travel and any access costs.

We look forward to hearing from you! 

NEW WORK, PRODUCTIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Francesca Pigeon, AKA Dilettante, announced the release date of her debut album Tantrum - coming Oct 2022. Find out more here.
The full tour of May Sumbwanyambe's play Enough of Him has been announced - the play will open in Pitlochry this year before going on tour. Read on here. 
Charlotte Wetton's poetry pamphlet Accessioning has been acquired by the Emma Press for publication in 2023. Read more here.
Lydia Marchant wrote a recent episode of the British Scandal podcast, produced by Wonderly. Find out more here.

Lydia also wrote a recent episode of Casualty for the BBC - you can read more about that here.
COMMISSIONS, NEW ROLES AND DEVELOPMENT
Katie Byford has been selected to join the London Library emerging writers' scheme. Read more here. 
Pearl Andrews Horrigan was commissioned to write a short film for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school. Find out more about First Night here
Billie Collins was selected for the BBC Writersroom Northern Voices Scheme. You can find out more about it here.

She has also been commissioned by ThickSkin Theatre to write Peak Stuff as part of the Writer's Guild's New Play Commission Scheme. Find out more here. 
Fahad Al-Amoudi has joined the team at OWN IT! as their new Publishing Editorial Assistant. Read on here.
May Sumbwanyambe was selected for an artist's residency with the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. You can find out more here.
PRIZES AND AWARDS
Beth Westbrook's play Awareness was selected as one of the winners of the Cheshire Prize for Literature. Find out more here.
Gregory Kearns and Hannah Hodgson were both winners at the Northern Writers Awards. Hannah won the Northern Writers Award for poetry, whilst Gregory took home the Northern Debut Award for Poetry. Read more here.
Nasim Asl was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Find out more here. 
Jay Mitra, Kym Deyn, Celestine Stilwell and Karishma Sangtani were all shortlisted for the 2022 Creative Future Writer's Award. Read more here.
Saba Sams was shortlisted for the Edge Hill University Short Story Prize - learn more here. 
Our Director Steve and Core Team member Malika have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Read on here. 
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