air, working with writer Jo Bell and Writing East Midlands as part of the Write Here programme, are seeking poetic moments of light relief, beauty and distraction for a vast readership of patients, visitors and staff at the two Derby Hospitals.

air is the arts programme at Derby Hospitals, supporting the healing process, helping to create a therapeutic environment and a place in which patients, visitors and staff can engage positively with their surroundings.

The 2011 edition of Poetry in the Waiting Room will be launched in the Spring, distributed for free throughout the Trust and featured in the exhibitions programme and its own poster campaign.

Examples of previous editions can be found at www.airarts.net

Deadline Monday 14th February

Please send your poems of no longer than 20 lines to catherine@writingeastmidlands.co.uk

For more information about the Write Here programme go to http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/projects/residencies/

Crystal Clear Creators  is pleased to announce a new publishing project. In 2012, it will publish a new series of five individually-authored pamphlets, or chapbooks of poetry and prose through its publishing imprint, Crystal Clear Creators (CCC) Publishing.

Crystal Clear Creators will provide professional mentoring and a pamphlet publication to five ‘early career’ writers.

To find out more about this opportunity, go to http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/opportunities/391/

Only writers who have not previously been published in a major publication are eligible to apply. 

This project is supported by Writing East Midlands and funded by Arts Council England.

Tickets are selling fast! Don't miss this ideal opportunity for writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror to get away from it all, meet and work with like-minded people and enjoy workshops and talks with established authors in the field.

Offering workshops, feedback sessions and expert advice, these weekends are sure to both inform and inspire.

Click here to find out more.

Alt.Fiction is a trading name of Writing East Midlands

To keep up to date with opportunities for writers in the East Midlands and beyond, go to http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/opportunities/