Our first Saturday morning meeting was judged a great success, so we hope to make it a regular thing.
The second one was on 30 May. We met for a coffee and chat in the Clocktower Café in Katharine Street 10.30. Look out for news of the next Saturday meeting.
The winning piece in our March Writer of the Month competition was Little Weed, by Peter Hankins.
You can read all the entries here:
The latest Writer of the Month contest was won by Ashwin Dave with his amusing piece To Be Or Not To Be Smart(ies)
You can read all the entries here…
The sijo is a Korean poetic form with just three lines
I wanted to attempt it and here it is: my first sijo
Alas though, you really have to think I messed it up pretty bad
And here’s a competition…
January is tough, and it can be difficult to get back in motion, so here are some timely ideas provided by the Novelry. Five suggestions for overcoming writer’s block and five for finding new inspiration.
Faridah is the young writer, born and brought up in Croydon but proud of her Nigerian heritage, whose first novel Ace of Spades shot to best-selling success and a place on the New York Times Top Ten.
We are restarting our ‘Writer of the Month’ competition!
The theme this month is “Light and Dark”, fitting for this time of year and the times we are living in. Entries can be prose or poetry but should be short – flash fiction or a single stanza of verse. Entries should be a Word document attached to an email, or in the body of an email. Please send them to Stella at:
You will then be sent all the entries to read and asked to return your vote for the top three. The closing date will be Friday January 23rd and voting will close shortly afterwards. The winner will be announced and published on the website. There is no prize except recognition and we hope, a bit of motivation and inspiration!
The Daily Telegraph has a poetry competition. UK residents only, no cash prize but a year’s subscription, publication and performance in a short film. The theme is ‘Mothers’.
The Poetry Society has issued a new set of prompts. These are intended for people entering their current competition but might be of general interest to poets.
Glossy Planet is a new magazine which will run a monthly challenge for short, topical pieces of prose or poetry (1,000 words or two pages). The theme will be announced only shortly beforehand, and the first is ‘Monsters we Made’. First prize $1,000…
