Who are we?
We are a group of writers of varied ability who meet in a lovely old refurbished school twice a month.
The Executive try and arrange programmes to cater for a variety of tastes as our members’ writing interests range from poetry, articles, short stories to novels and books for children.
The idea is to encourage developing writing skills and fun exercises are devised to get attendees to write something during the meeting, and then read it out for comment.
We also arrange visits from published authors to take workshops, and these have proved very popular with repeat visits.
Visiting authors have included Jean Meade (The Widow Makers), Lloyd Jones (Welsh Author of the Year), Heather Dyer (Children’s Author, and short listed on Richard & Judy Show).
Elgin Writers in Scotland and ourselves have a yearly short story competition, where we agree a theme then judge each others entries. There is a small fee the money is divided into three cash prizes. Recently we decided to have an in-house competition where a theme is agreed with a small entry fee. The winner takes all, and at the moment we are indebted to our local branch of Waterstones to be our judge. It is hoped this will be a regular feature of our year.
Members are encouraged to bring ongoing work to meetings for help and suggestions, and novice writers will find members willing to give their time to ensure they find their standards increase and enjoy the fun in the craft of writing.
Last, but not least, we have an annual party at Christmas time.
If you are interested in meeting a zany, happy and talented bunch of writers,
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