Our friends in Sutton are holding a writers’ Spring Festival event at the Ecology Centre in Carshalton. Tickets are free – just scan the code on the poster above. There will be a chance to write and to look around the centre.
The Croydon Writers first Literary Lunch took place on Saturday 22nd March at The George pub and restaurant in Southwark, an ancient inn well known to Charles Dickens.
We had a pleasant lunch and even did some actual writing – see the attached for a few samples.
English to be renamed ‘American’.
Our workshop session on 14 April was an evening of discussion and encouragement, with members reading short pieces of their recent work.
Another look at forthcoming writing competitions.
The prestigious Bath competition closes at the end of the month.
The first prize is £2,200. Entry costs £9. Stories must be a maximum of 2,200 words long.
Our Annual General Meeting took place on 10 March. Besides the regular formal business there was a discussion of proposed changes to the Constitution.
See the attached documents for details of the proceedings.
The traditional Address to a Haggis for Burns Night. I recommend MacSween’s haggis.
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang ‘s my arm.
more…
My latest list of writing competitions. These are only the ones I might possibly enter myself, so I’m afraid there’s nothing for poets or memoirists.
The prestigious Bridport Prize has introduced a new award for the over sixties. This is not a new competition, but rather a prize for the oldie who comes highest across the four existing categories.
Croydon Writers 