For our 2016 retreat we headed down the beautiful Heart of Wales railway line to the isolated hamlet of Cynghordy.
Our first meal in our new retreat!
2016 Retreat – Cynghordy
Sue Ross
Jane Seabourne Poetry Workshop
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.
Jane encouraging us to get drawing … yes, drawing!
Wrekin Writers creating poetry
2015 December Meeting – Making Our Own Artist/Note Book
Suki White gave us a brilliant workshop at our December meeting showing up the various different Artists’ Books that she’s bought and made, and then gave us a demonstration on how to make our own. Cue the Blue Peter bit of lots of Pritt Sticks, cut out magazine photos, plain white paper … and a lot of imagination!
2015 Retreat – Castell Courtyard
For our 2015 retreat we didn’t travel far. In fact, we only just crossed the border into Wales and the beautiful Tanant Valley.
All good retreats involve midnight walks
2014 Christmas Meal
After creating our Christmas hats, some of us retreated to the Buckatree Hall Hotel for a festive feast!
2014 Christmas Meeting – Dressing Up With Novel-Inspired Hats
Di Perry had the idea that for the Christmas meeting we should make hats inspired by some of our favourite novels. Can you guess what they are?
2014 Retreat – Back to Plas Colwyn
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).
2014 March Meeting – Exploring Wellington’s Local History
For our March 2014 meeting, we were homeless for one month only, which meant we needed a temporary meeting place, and Wellington Library came up trumps. Julie Philips gave us a workshop on using local history in our writing, and here are some photos we took whilst exploring the town … (more…)
2011 The Point of Punctuation
Simon gave us a workshop on how punctuation can help us get our message across properly.
2011 Christmas Meal
Well, they’d served us well in the past, so it was back to the Buckatree Hall Hotel for another Christmas Bash!
Vicki
2011 Pirates Ahoy!
Our September meeting co-incided with ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ so some decided to go the whole hog and come dressed as one too. (Some of them looked as though they’d done this before. Often.)
Gill
2011 Releasing Our Inner Child!
Julie decided that for our meeting in March we needed to release our inner child. Could throwing away our adult constraints free up our creativity?
Out came the Twister mat!
2010 Christmas Meal
2010 Drumming Workshop
After having so much fun with a drumming workshop back in 2006, we decided it was time to bang those bongos one more time!
Beverley
2009 – Christmas Meal
2009 – October Workshop with Nick Fletcher
Our 2009 October Workshops were facilitated by local writer, Nick Fletcher, who’s written over 30,000 articles and several books.
A packed Wellington Town Council Chamber, as we listen to Nick.
2009 – Attingham Park Visit
In 2009 we held out meeting in the National Trust’s Attingham Park, near Shrewsbury, and in the afternoon had a guided tour of this large country house, with its fascinating history.
Meeting in progress!
2006 – Christmas Meal
2006 – Climbing the Wrekin!
Why are we called Wrekin Writers? Because we meet in the shadow of The Wrekin. So it was time to conquer our namesake!
We made it.
2006 – Drum Workshop
Now for something a little different … a drum workshop. (It’s all about rhythm – get the rhythm and your words will flow better). Beat that!
It’s a drum workshop!
2005 – Museum of Steel and Sculpture
This one of the many Ironbridge Gorge Museums and well worth a visit.
The Museum of Steel and Sculpture
2005 – Kinnersley Pub Visit
No, not a pub crawl, but a guided tour around a pub with history!
This is a pub with history
2013 (Back to) Llanfendigaid
We’d heard on the grapevine (okay, it was the Internet) that Llanfendigaid had been refurbished, so we couldn’t resist the opportunity of going back to this Welsh coastal property for another retreat.
It’s written in the sands!
2012 – Beddgelert
Our House – Plas Colwyn
2010 – Crogen
The 2010 retreat took place in Gwynedd, when, a bit reminiscent of last year, there’d been a lot of rain …
2009 – Lake Vyrnwy
In 2009, the group ventured into a new region of Wales for a retreat. Lake Vyrnwy. There’s a big reservoir there, because it rains a lot.
Here it is … Eunant House.
2008 – Llanfendigaid
In 2008 we returned to the Welsh coast, just north of Tywyn, to a large house called Llanfendigaid, which we would return to in the future!
A little residence for the weekend.
