How Exciting! Telltales at Port Eliot Festival 2010
May 6th, 2010 | Published in Frontpage, Port Eliot Festival 2010
After the success of the Telltales and Profwriting.com tent at last year’s Port Eliot Festival we have been invited back to the country’s most eccentric garden party and this time we have been given a slot on one of the main stages!
To tie in with the stage’s location – The Walled Garden – the theme for our Port Eliot Telltales will be Hidden Secrets and the slot will consist of three or four readers from across the Telltales spectrum; a selection of writers who best represent the quality and range of work that Cornwall’s writing scene has to offer. Each reader will have a maximum of 8 minutes for their work and the whole slot will be drawn together by a Telltales compere who’ll keep the pace, flow and audience interest levels high.
We are really excited about this opportunity and the chance it offers to first time writers and experienced writers alike to platform their work on a main stage at a major UK literary festival.
The submissions process for Telltales @ Port Eliot 2010 is the same as normal: submit short stories, poetry, prose, travel journals, novel extracts or any other creative writing on theme (have to be strict about it with this one – it must allude to Hidden Secrets in some way) using the form on the right. Make sure you clearly label it Hidden Secrets and please don’t submit anything more than 1500 words long – there just won’t be time for you to read it.
We’ll have a read and a good think, then pull together a programme that really works and will promote Telltales as well as the individual writers selected to read. Submissions deadline for Telltales @Port Eliot – Hidden Secrets is Friday 17 June after which date we will let the successfully programmed readers know they have been scheduled then have at least one get together before the festival to rehearse the slot. Yep, we really are taking this seriously.
We’ll let you know more details about the Festival, what day we’re peforming on and even who else we’ll be performing alongside as we get them, but in the meantime get your thinking caps on – can’t wait to read your best Hidden Secrets work.
For more information about Telltales, get in touch.