StoryShop 2010 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

The City of Literature Trust is looking for new, emerging writers to read their work as part of Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this August.  

Story Shop is a free, un-ticketed event produced by the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust and takes place in the Book Festival’s Bookshop. It is a showcase for new writing and new writers from Edinburgh.

Each day features one author, giving them a ten minute slot to read either two 4-5 minute ‘flash fiction’ pieces or one 8-10 minute piece of fiction.  The idea is to give a free taster of new writing to a new audience.

Writers deciding to apply must be:

•    Living or working in Edinburgh
•    Comfortable speaking in public
•    Not have their own event as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010 programme
•    Available to appear once between 14-30 August

Applications from newly published writers are particularly welcome (published meaning some form of peer reviewed publication – anthology, literary magazine, newspaper, novel or short story collection) and we are looking for fiction targeted at an adult audience. Preference may be given to those with experience reading in public.

Each author featured will receive a small appearance fee and a one-day author pass to the Book Festival’s green room, the ‘yurt.’  Their event and author biography will feature on the City of Literature Trust website and Story Shop is promoted via the Book Festival programme, in the Bookshop tent and via the Book Festival entrance tent screens. Our press staff will also send out a press release to all relevant media with information about the writers who will be reading.

To Apply

Send in a sample of your work (fiction for adults only) by email – no more than 2 A4 pages, or it will not be considered – and a short introductory note stating:

•    if/where you have been published before
•    any public readings you have given in the past
•    your availability – you must be available between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on at least one day between 14th - 30th August 2010.

Applications should be sent by email to Anna Burkey, Communications & Events Co-ordinator at the City of Literature Trust, at anna@cityofliterature.com.

Closing date for applications: Friday 16th July at 12 noon.  Successful applicants will be contacted shortly thereafter.

Further details here.

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