Programme 2026

At evening sessions we work on a topic - each member writing a piece. Members read out their work (if they wish) and then we discuss each other's contributions in a positive manner. Occasionally we have evenings where material is prepared in advance, allowing us to share longer pieces.

15 January - Town Hall

WORKSHOP: Describe Night: Instead of telling your reader how they should feel describe the scene, so they feel it themselves. Bring a piece of your own work to re-work or use sentences given on the night

19 February - Town Hall

WORKSHOP: Lucky Dip Night: Pick a story idea from a series of different ideas in a bag

19 March

WORKSHOP: Talkie Night: Using only dialogue, write a piece about either a first date/reunion of old friends/heated argument/adult explaining to a child/reveal a long-hidden secret

16 April

including 2026 AGM.

Meeting will start at 7.30pm with AGM; regular meeting will start immediately afterwards

PREPARE BEFOREHAND

CRITICS NIGHT: Song Night part 2: Start your story with one of the following opening song lines:

Sometimes you make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way
You can play it sensible, the king of conventional, or be the Lord of chaos

It's my life, it's now or never
What about all the times you said you had the answers?
If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts would tell
I know it's kinda late, I hope I didn't wake you
It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
He wasn't good enough for her

21 May

WORKSHOP: Inspired Night: A piece (poem or prose) inspired by an abstract print

18 June

WORKSHOP: (Bracket) Night: You will re-write an instruction manual using the conversational technique of brackets! You can bring one of your own or just imagine one

16 July

WORKSHOP: Place Night: Choosing from a selection of images provided you will create a world, initial feelings of the place and then later in time when it is familiar to your character, i.e. the background to their life or a second/later visit

17 September

WORKSHOP: Noun and Verb Night:

”Take any noun, put it with any verb, and you have a sentence. It never fails.” — Stephen King.

Choose a random noun and a random verb to form a sentence. Then, use this to begin a new piece of writing.

15 October

WORKSHOP: Poetry Night: Davina will be leading us in using meter, rhymes, alliteration, and stressing of words so we feel more confident in tackling poetry

19 November - Town Hall

PREPARE BEFOREHAND

CRITICS NIGHT: A Muse Night: Write a story connected to the muses, actual, imagined, someone needing a muse, helped by a muse – anything vaguely related the idea of muse(s)!

Greek Mythology’s Inspirational Muses

Muses - Wikipedia

10 December - Town Hall

WORKSHOP: Xmas Night: Tell a tale (prose or poem – if you were inspired by Poetry night) in the form of a list of New Years resolutions!

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