The 2017 award winner Emma McGordon was announced on Sunday at the fund raising event ‘Rendezvous with Afternoon Tea’.
Celebrating the life and works of Writer, Julia Darling
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News & Events
In this section we try to capture events and news that relate to the work of Julia Darling. If you are aware of any other event’s or related news items then please get in touch via our Facebook page or email contact@juliadarling.co.uk
Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2017 – Applications open until 31st 2017
—22/02/2017
The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship is now open for entry until 31 March 2017.
This creative writing fellowship offers a published writer from the North of England £2,000 in order to fund a period of writing and research away from home.
Michelle Green brings us stories from Hayling Island
—25/01/2017
Michelle Green received the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship in 2016. Here is an update on her trip to Hayling Island which gives us a glimpse of the rich seams of stories found amongst the eroding landscape and communities there.
Michelle Green wins the 2016 Julia Darling Travel Fellowship
—06/06/2016
Michelle Green was announced as the winner on Sunday night at Rendezvous: Wish You Were Here, a celebration of the life and work of Julia Darling at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
Chloe Daykin talks about where the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship took her
—03/06/2016
Chloe Daykin was the winner of the first Julia Darling Travel Fellowship. Read all about Chloe’s travels to Norway and what inspired her there in an interview with Tamzin Mackie for the Journal Culture Magazine by clicking here.
Rendezvous – Wish You Were Here …..a few tickets left
—18/04/2016
Rendezvous – Wish You Were Here is a cabaret night and fundraising event for the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship at Live Theatre on Sunday 5th June 7.30pm.
Remembering Julia today with a poem by Kitty Fitzgerald
—13/04/2016
Julia
That fresh-faced grin
wide as her earlobes,
the passion for words,
their shape in her mouth;
everything she was
and knew still survives,
all that and her laughter,
hard to forget.
Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2016 – awards night 5th June 2016
—05/04/2016
All applications for the 2016 Julia Darling Travel Fellowship are now in and an award night – Rendezvous – wish you were here is planned for Sunday 5th June 2016 at Live Theatre, Newcastle. Put it in your diaries and watch this space for more details of this spectacular cabaret night featuring Julia’s poetry, theatre and music to help raise funds for next years awards. Tickets will be on sale soon.
If you enjoyed Rendezvous 2 last year you’ll enjoy this.
Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2016 – Applications open until 31st March
—27/02/2016
Julia Darling Travel Julia Darling Travel Fellowship returns with offer of travel for creative writers
Now in its second year, the Julia Darling Travel Fellowship, worth £2,000, will fund a period of travel for a published writer. The award is now open for entry until 31 March 2016.
Julia Darling Travel Fellowship 2016 applications to be open soon….
—08/02/2016
Due to the generous support from friends, family and fellow writers we have now raised £2,000 for this years Travel Fellowship. We’d like to thank everyone who has donated so far, particularly Lee Hall who has pledged support for the award for the next five years and said
“Julia was an huge inspiration to me and she was a beacon of good sense, humour, ambition and right mindedness – as well as being a fabulous person whom I adored – so I would very much like to help remember her. [The Julia Darling Travel Fellowship] seems a really great and creative way to do that.”