Several members were at a wider ‘Meet the Author’ event, run as part of the Wellington Festival at Wellington Library today, where a fun time was had by all!
(photos (c) John Dyson)
Several members were at a wider ‘Meet the Author’ event, run as part of the Wellington Festival at Wellington Library today, where a fun time was had by all!
(photos (c) John Dyson)
Julie Phillips’ book, Newport in the Great War, can be ordered from Amazon here:
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Julie Phillips’ Book, Kidderminster in the Great War, can be ordered from Amazon here:
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Julie Phillips’ book, Ludlow in the Great War, can be ordered from Amazon here:
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Jane Seabourne gave us an excellent poetry workshop today, proving that even those of us who are not natural poets, can still produce something magical and … poetical.
I don’t know what it is at the moment but I have the urge to go out, meet other writers and learn from other writers and so I have been looking out for opportunities to do this. One of these opportunities was the Writing West Midlands networking event, which I had heard about on the Wrekin Writers’ Facebook Page, which I attended in Shrewsbury on Saturday.
I think my interest was sparked because writing can be a lonely occupation and as the event was actually in Shropshire and not Birmingham I felt it would be a good idea to attend it. The more of these events we as writers support the more likely these events, and others, are to be held locally.
I recently had the opportunity to attend three events at the Oswestry LitFest. Armed with the tickets I had won, courtesy of the Shropshire Star, and the company of fellow Wrekin Writer Angeline Wheeler off we went. We weren’t entirely sure of directions but we just left caution to the wind and like a couple of explorers we headed for Oswestry and hoped for the best.
I have been to literary festivals before, the Hay being the big one, but although I had thought about going to Oswestry, I hadn’t yet had the chance, so it was a completely new thing for me. I also did not know any of the speakers we there to see. I didn’t know what the authors had written, the kind of clients the literary agent was after or who the editor edited for. Did my lack of knowledge matter? Not one bit.
For our 2014 retreat we retreated back to Plas Colwyn, in the relative civilisation of Beddgelert and all of its amenities (we mean procrastination opportunities).
Proof, if ever any were needed, that Wrekin Writers do write from time to time …
In February, Simon tried showing how using photographs and images can help us add more creativity to our text, add more descriptive detail, and also generate new ideas.
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Congratulations go to Mike White, Julie Phillips and Bryan Vaughan who successfully achieved their 50,000 words written during the month of November. (For more information about NaNoWriMo visit the official NaNoWriMo website).
The 2010 retreat took place in Gwynedd, when, a bit reminiscent of last year, there’d been a lot of rain …