Litfest is looking for writers and artists to work on a series of innovative creative writing projects in prisons.

We are running six short-term residencies across Lancashire prisons during May 2008 for the Offenders Learning and Skills Council at Lancaster and Morecambe College.

These residencies will work with offenders to produce new writing, audio recordings and artwork to be broadcast on BBC Radio Lancashire and exhibited across the county and online throughout 2008.

We want to recruit writers, and visual and sound artists to take part in an initial training and development programme to both equip them with the skills and understanding to work in prisons, and to develop a model for working collaboratively.

Writers and artists will be selected from this initial programme to work on the residencies.

There are bursaries and travel expenses available to attend the training and development sessions and fees for those working on the residencies.

Please apply with a CV, covering letter, including a statement about why you are interested in working with offenders (150 words), your ideas about working collaboratively (150 words), and the following:

WRITERS

6 poems

OR

1000 words prose (if this is from a novel please also include a synopsis of the novel with your submission).
Deadline for submission: 14 March 2008
Interview date: 2 or 4 April 2008

VISUAL/SOUND ARTISTS
Samples of your recent work (on CD or DVD)

Send submissions to catherine.sadler@litfest.org

OR to:

Catherine Sadler
Projects Manager
Litfest
26 Sun Street
Lancaster
LA1 1EW