keith jewitt

Geordie gentleman, poet and founder of North East Screenwriters

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

#haiku
In the lime's dark heart
Scared cushats groom: sparrowhawk
Babies surround them.

[Sunderland Museum @SundMuseum]

Tomorrow, Mon 30 July we host a new play about NE-born explorer and pioneer, Gertrude Bell. 'The Desert Queen' starts at 7.30pm, tickets £10/£9 - pay on the door. Fascinating story of an amazing woman, written by David Farn and directed by Neil Armstrong.

[Rhea Wolfson @rheawolfson]

Voter ID is a disaster for democracy. There is one true purpose behind it: disenfranchise disadvantaged and underrepresented communities.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

#JeremyHunt forgot his wife's nationality - just as he forgot that he was supposed to be running the #NHS and not destroying it.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

Another summer reading recommendation - #TheIdiot by @BananaKarenina - wonderfully dotty and unlike anything ever written before.

[Jesmond Library @JesmondLibrary]

Information and entry forms for Jesmond Library's 4th Creative Writing Competition are now available in the library. The closing date for entries is 12 noon on Tuesday 30 October - but don't leave it too late before you get your creative juices flowing!

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

More summer reading: #RockandRollisLife by @djtaylorwriter - the true story of the #HeliumKids by one who was there.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

Magimix n. "music listened to by the Three Wise men while following yonder star". Anyone trying to make people laugh at #edfringe2018 is welcome to that.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

@fnafilms You can buy a very good oven variety with real lard - a rare treat for us. Available from World of Lard.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

@fnafilms I first realised my Grandma was non-superhuman when she panicked after setting fire to the chip pan and the net curtains.

[AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS @AwaitFI]

A sneak preview of some clips was presented by director Johnny Kevorkian @MCMComicCon today as part of @FrightFest pre-festival panel

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

#Map shows the surface area that we would need to power the world, the EU or Germany solely through #solar power. Source: https://t.co/YZxR8cAZtY

[Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew]

Actually an EU directive. That organisation your mob of crooks & halfwits are currently telling us to stock up on Spam & candles so we can leave. You know, them.
I have a swimming certificate you can take credit for if you like?

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

This should be BREAKING news on the BBC. A cross party parliamentary select committee has concluded that Britain's biggest ever political donor could well have been funded by a foreign power.

This is illegal. It's also treacherous.

Silence in the face of this is complicity

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

5/5 Film & TV fans summer reading The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

4/5 Film & TV fans summer reading #4 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

3/5 Film & TV fans summer reading #3 - A Very English Scandal by John Preston

[keith jewitt @NorthEastScreen]

2/5 Film & TV fans summer reading #2 - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain