Ulla’s Nib #4
Welcome to the summer 2008 issue of ulla’s nib, the magazine of the Northern Ireland literary community. Apologies for the delay in producing this issue, which was necessitated by the usual issues of funding rounds and sequencing. We will endeavour to keep a tighter schedule in future, with more organisational hours dedicated to the magazine.
Things certainly have been developing apace at the network, with a packed spring programme which has included visits by american writers richard bausch and Loren Niemi, masterclasses in scriptwriting and writing for radio, and a new regular poetry evening at bookfinders café in partnership with Poetry ireland. we have acquired new production equipment which will allow us to produce our own novel sized books for the first time and the system which allows us to print this magazine ourselves is being developed into a short run production facility.
Coming up in the next few weeks we have a new community writing anthology being produced as part of our development and outreach programme. after that, it’s straight into the creation of ulla 5, so try to send your submissions to us by the end of June to reach the autumn issue.
In this issue, we feature a selection of writing from the Queen’s writers group, a new short story by James meredith, some features on the highlights of the cwn spring programme and the usual round of reviews and notices about literary life in Ulster you’ve come to expect. we hope you enjoy this compendium of what’s new in Northern Ireland writing.