Granite Noir - Locals in the Limelight - Call Out For Local Writers

Granite Noir – Locals in the Limelight – Call Out For Local Writers

About Locals in the Limelight

In 2018 Granite Noir introduced Locals in the Limelight: five minute spotlights offering some of the region’s most talented up-and-coming writers a chance to read extracts from their noir fiction at the start of festival events. Supporting homegrown authors is a central part of this festival, and we’re so excited to once again work with Scotland’s freshest and fiercest talent in 2024!

If you’re a North-east based writer aged 16 +, working on long- or short-form noir fiction, poems or even scripts we’d love for you to apply.

Being a Local in the Limelight will provide you with the opportunity to perform an excerpt of your work to a large audience. 

How to Apply: 

Please send us an extract of no more than 5,000 words (a short story, poem, novel extract, screenplay or drama extract, or examples of noir flash fiction), along with a one paragraph biography and a brief description of the longer work if submitting a short extract.

Applications may be written submissions or in the form of a self tape. 

Be sure to include your contact information (in writing if applying via self tape).

Submissions should be sent via email to:  rachel.venturini@aberdeenperformingarts.com

Deadline:

Please submit all parts of your application by February 9th at midday. 

As part of this opportunity readers will be given a free ticket to see the rest of the event they are speaking at and reasonable travel expenses will be covered to get into the city. 

What Happens Next:

Should you be successful you will be contacted shortly after the deadline with further information. 

Dare to be there!