Tag: Prompts
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New Year: Get Writing, Get Flashy!
Anne Howkins will be running a Flash Fiction workshop on Thursday 9th January. Come along and find out how to make micro stories out of the weirdest things…
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Meetings in Pubs – they’re great!
On the 3rd Thursday of most months you’ll find us in the back room of the Organ Grinder in Newark.
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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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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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Short Story Exercises: 1) Journey or Destination? 2) Weird Prompts!
Is your favourite short story a Journey or a Destination? Or a delicious mix of the two? And how about making use of some very weird word combinations for your next prompt…
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November & December Round-Up
Details of a great talk by Brick on travel writing, plus a few other things the group got up to in November & December.
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Next Meeting: Thu 20 Oct
The next informal meeting is on Thursday 20th October at 7 pm at Knight’s Court. The topic is: “In the doorway stood a familiar figure”.