Category: Meetings
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AGM: Our Plans for 2019
Invest in henchmen, buy some heavy duty weaponry and get a fluffy white cat to stroke inside a secret base. Hang on. That’s the ‘Survive Brexit’ folder. Ahh, here’s the AGM news… After hearing the results of the Flash Fiction competition (more on that later), we worked through the agenda and listened to the Treasurer’s…
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AGM & Flash Fiction Competition Results – Thursday 6th September
Awesome Gila Monster! Artistic Gene Manipulation! Alarmingly Green Mutants! AGM!!! Come along and hear some news and find out the winners of the Flash Fiction competition.
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August Informal Meeting
We had a really good session the other night with some of our regulars being joined by a few new faces. Janey and Clair were two of the winners of our Local History Writing Competition while Becci was present to receive her prize (a copy of ‘Gobstoppers, Shrimps and Sour Monkeys‘) for winning our Newark…
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Formal Meeting on 7 June Cancelled
Hi all! Just a quick note to let you know that we’ve had to cancel our June formal meeting with poet and competition judge Leanne Moden due to virtually everyone having to be elsewhere (I’m stuck in Slough, for example). However, I will be conducting an interview with Leanne over Skype and will post the…
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G is for Groups – writing groups
Great insights into why joining writers’ groups is a really good idea!
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New Anthology!!
We had a really productive meeting on Thursday on the group’s plans for the Newark Book Festival in July with some great ideas from our members. We’ve got a bit of work to do but we hope to have a really engaging stall on the Saturday and Sunday in the Market Place. And the centre-piece…
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Get Ready for Big News!
This is just a teaser for an exciting official announcement that will be made at our next meeting on Thursday 3rd May.
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Meeting: Mirth & Misogyny
We had a great informal meeting on the 19th April but before you get the wrong idea about what we found funny let me fill you in on the details. Anne had written a sharp piece on the prompt of “Impeccable Timing” which revolved around a rather unpleasant chap and his love of beautiful things…
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Our Recent Talk on Magazine Writing
At the start of the month we had a great talk by Caroline Bingham on her adventures in newspaper and magazine publishing. She is the current owner and editor of the Lincolnshire Life magazine but has in the past worked for the Guardian, the Manchester Evening News and the Newark Advertiser. Lincolnshire Life is very…
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Next Meeting: 5th April. Writing for Magazines with Caroline Bingham
We’re delighted to have Caroline Bingham come to speak to us this week about writing for magazines. Caroline is Chief Executive of County Life Ltd, the company that produces Lincolnshire Life, the popular county magazine established in 1961. She will examine the evolution of magazines over the decades, look at what kind of writing they specialise in…