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  • 22/11/2022

    Social meetings

    It can be challenging joining a new group. With this in mind, you can meet us socially, if you like, at 7pm in the Lamb, before the critiquing of writing begins half an hour later out the back. If you’re thinking of joining us, we’d love to see you before coming to a meeting proper…

    Marlborough UK, Marlborough Writers, writing, writing circle, writing critique, writing development, writing group
  • 07/07/2021

    Meeting in the flesh

    We really pleased to be meeting in The Lamb again after more than a year’s break. Lockdown has shed a few regulars (for non-fatal reasons before you worry!) so we’d love to hear from any new writers, fiction or non-fiction, playwrights, novelists, poets – we like a good variety. You can join us on Signal…

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  • 23/05/2020

    Coronavirus update

    While Coronavirus restrictions are in place, we are meeting online. if you would like to join us, please get in contact and we’ll share details with you.

    Coronavirus, meeting, writing
  • 09/09/2019

    Writers’ Day at Salisbury Literary Festival

    As we approach the second run of literature festivals, I’m thinking of the different kinds of festival within easy travel of Marlborough. Swindon (okay, it’s in May), focuses on ideas and has a lot of intellectual non-fiction catering to a city-sized town (and county) missing undergraduate education. Cheltenham (October) has grown into a mega book…

    Faber Academy, Professional Writing Academy, publishing advice, Salisbury, Salisbury Literary Festival, Salisbury Literature Festival, Salisbury Short Story Prize, Salisbury Writers’ Day, Salisbury Writing Circle, short story competition, Tom Bromley, Wiltshire, writing competition
  • 29/07/2018

    Describing the appearance of characters

    I won’t lie. Description is my Achilles’ heel. I’m terrible at reading it too, skipping over swathes of it. I like it short and sweet; to know the character in as few words as possible. (Yet Lord of the Rings is one of my favourite books. Go figure.) Every writer has strengths and weaknesses. But…

    character appearance, characterisation, Dan Simmons, description, Raymond Chandler, Sophie Duffy, Writing advice
  • 12/07/2018

    The art of critique 🤔🤗🤨😫🧐😕😖🤪😀😍

    Back in the day when I did a bit of training in research, we were taught that discussion groups work best in groups of eight to twelve. Less and you can’t get a good discussion going, it can be awkward, or it’s easily skewed by the potentally odd opinion of one. More, and some don’t…

    criticism, Critique, group dynamic, group size, Style, writer’s cave
  • 09/07/2018

    Colonised writing

      After inhabiting the polar south with my 1914 horror noveletta, The Crate, I’m up in the north, sucked into the 1845 ill-fated Franklin expedition to find the North-West Passage by way of horror fictionalisation The Terror, by Dan Simmons. Anyway, Google meanderings through the historical background found this in The Conversation, by a Canadian Inuit…

    Annie Muktuk, Arctic, Canada, Franklin expedition, Inuit, Louie Kamookak, Norma Dunning, polar, Writing advice, Writing voice
  • 02/10/2017

    Poetry Swindon Festival

    So today I was in a cow onesie outside Swindon town centre M&S reading The Cow by Roald Dahl, with a bunch of other onesie animals. (The other option was to read An Ode to Autumn by Keates with added moos). The point of this stunt – and believe it or not this was the…

    Festival Chronicle, poetry, Poetry Swindon, Richard Jefferies Museum, Swindon
  • 24/06/2016

    Competitions and submissions

    Budding writers! Just six days to go to enter Poetry Swindon‘s BATTERED MOONS POETRY COMPETITION and submit to DOMESTIC CHERRY magazine. Battered Moons only costs £5 to enter per poem, and has a top prize of £700. Domestic Cherry invites submissions of Poetry, Flash Fiction, Playlets, Shopping Lists, Inner Leg Measurements, First Borns and Bribes!…

    Battered Moons, Domestic Cherry, flash fiction, magazine, play, playlet, poetry, poetry competition, Poetry Swindon, script, submission, submit
  • 08/03/2016

    Words, Pictures, Publishing

         Just met former primary school deputy head and children’s writer, Vicki Watson, who runs a publishing company, Callisto Green. They offer a full service from editing to book design to book coaching. Always handy to know these kind of people when stuck or want a book to look as well as read professional.…

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