Fosseway Writers: based in Newark UK, helping writers everywhere
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We’re Going Down The Pub…
Just a quick note to remind everyone that tonight’s informal read-back meeting is at the Organ Grinder pub on Portland St, just off the Beaumond Cross / Robin Hood Hotel traffic light junction. We will have a run through anything written to the last prompt (“a series of cascades to rival the falls“) or anything…
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Flash Fiction Results!
The winning entries of our Flash Fiction competition (announced a few weeks ago at our AGM).
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October Meeting: “Fears & Monsters” with Alex Davis
We’re delighted to welcome Alex Davis back to Fosseway Writers this Thursday (4th October). Alex’s sessions are always entertaining and informative and this time around we’ve arranged for him to attend in early October so that you can be inspired to write something dark and scary in time for Halloween.
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“Meetings & Reunions”: Catch-up on our last informal read-out meeting (20th Sep)
We had another couple of new faces at our regular mid-month get-together and hope to see Edward and Ray again soon. Ray is a member of the Sleaford Hub Writers and mentioned their regular meetings on the first Tuesday of the month as well as some anthologies they have had published. We had a good…
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Informal Read-out Meeting, Thursday 20th September
Come along to our informal read-out session for new pieces of writing, works in progress and general literary chat and banter. And discussion about a new Fosseway book for 2019!
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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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Letter Writing Competition 2018
We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest competition which requires entrants to go a little ‘old school’ and write a letter to someone who influenced you in some way.
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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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My 4 Golden Rules of Writing
Nicholas C. Rossis gives his 4 rules of writing (rule 2 is particularly good as it tells you which other rules you can ignore and why).
Got any book recommendations?