Author: Croydon Writers

A writer’s group based in Croydon

Kishōtenketsu

Oct 30, 2024

Another item that might be of interest. We are used to stories that follow a ‘three-act’ structure, but East Asian cultures often use a four-part pattern, called ‘Kishotenketsu’ in Japanese. This is a brief introduction, and there’s another here.

11 November Meeting

Oct 25, 2024

Our November meeting will be led by Stella, and there will be two parts.

  • A poem. Please bring a short poem. We’d like to hear one you have written yourself, but if you don’t write poetry, bring one you particularly like or that means something to you.
  • Feedback. Please also bring a short piece of writing (about 200 words) for us to practice friendly peer review. It could be a short piece of fiction, an extract from something longer, non-fiction or anything else you’d like to get constructive feedback on.

If you don’t feel comfortable with either of these, you’re still welcome to come along and join in, but the more input we get the better it will be.

2411 November AgendaDownload

Michael Round

Aug 31, 2024

We will greatly miss Michael Round, our energetic chair, who passed away on 6 July, leaving a gap which will be very hard to fill.

After a life of military and teaching service, Michael became an invaluable mentor to many local writers. He published some of their books as well as his own, the latest of which, entitled Genius, came out very recently.

Donations in his memory can be made to Help for Heroes .