Category: Meetings

12 May – Will Noble

May 13, 2025
Ethel, who presented the meeting, with Will and a copy of his book.

The greatest city that never was? At the 12 May meeting, Will Noble gave us an entertaining view of the history of our town, based on his book Croydonopolis, enjoyed by meany members and now in paperback. Will highlighted Croydon’s long story of bold innovations and early failures, with an undaunted determination fuelled by men such as Archbishop John Whitgift and Sir James Marshall, a persistence which has carried through many rejected bids for official city status up to the present day.

Will told us his sights were originally set on scriptwriting, but instead he developed a career on the Londonist website, which he now edits. He plans to do more non-fiction one day, but his next book – you heard it here first – will probably be fiction. We look forward to it.

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.

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