Don't Forget

Don't forget that following our annual festive break, Norwich Writers' Circle returns to its usual meeting routine - the first and third Tuesday of each month - from next week.

On 18th January we will welcoming Paeony Lewis who will be giving us a workshop and talk on creating child characters.

Please feel free to pop along to our friendly, and ever-growing, writers' group. Everyone is welcome, to what promises to be another entertaining evening from our current programme.

Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas

from everyone at Norwich Writers' Circle.

Plesse go here to see our season's greetings video.

Festive Frolics

A video featuring a selection of images from this year's Christmas Celebration is now available to watch online.

Please go here to see the short film.

Celebrating Christmas

Tonight at The Assembly House, Norwich Writers' Circle held its annual Christmas Celebration in The Pierce Room.

The festive flavoured evening proved popular as many members, families and friends, enjoyed a night of food, drink, fun and games.

The night also featured some entertainment, which gave members a chance to listen to the BBC broadcast of our Radio Script Competition winners, which aired last Sunday.

In addition to listening to the recent radio broadcast, we were also lucky enough to see another competition entry performed live, which proved to be immensely popular.

We will you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Open Evening 2010

Norwich Writers' Circle's 2010/11 programme begun tonight with an Open Evening.

This evening proved popular, and gave the opportunity for the Circle to introduce itself and hear a variety of work written by visitors and members.

Amongst the work read out, and then discussed, by our friendly writing group included a couple of colourful travelogues, plus a selection of short stories and poetry, the latter of which was aimed at children.

Our next meeting is on 5th October. This meeting features a visit from author and screenwriter Glenn Chandler, who is best known for creating the long-running ITV police series Taggart.

We hope to see you then.

Open Evening Reminder

Our 2010/2011 programme, which begins with an Open Evening, is now only a week away.

Entry to the Open Evening is free. This meeting gives an opportunity for the Circle to introduce itself, and to hear a selection of both members and visitors work read aloud.

We recommend that any manuscripts featured next week are no longer than 500 words and/or 10 minutes in length.

Everyone is more than welcome to our friendly writing group - reading aloud is not compulsory.

For more information of this year's upcoming meetings, including visiting writers and more, please visit norwichwriters.org.uk.

A Way With Words

The first Wymondham Festival Of Literature is next weekend.

The inaugural event, which runs from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th September, features a weekend of readings, conversation and music set in the beautiful and historic South Norfolk market town.

Amongst the weekend's highlights is An Evening With Helen Ivory, Martin Figura And Friends. This entertaining evening of readings features Martin Figura, who will be adjudicating this year's Norwich Writers' Circle Open Poetry Competition.

Please visit wymondhamarts.com for more Festival info.

New Programme Reminder

The start of our 2010/11 programme is now only a month away.

Highlights of our new programme include visits from Taggart creator Glenn Chandler, travel writer Laurence Mitchell and children's author Paeony Lewis. We will also be welcoming back Lucy McCarraher and Jean Fullerton, both of whom proved immensely popular on their previous Circle visits.

Everyone is more than welcome to come along to our free Open Evening on 21st September - the first meeting of the new season.

Full programme details can be found at norwichwriters.org.uk.

We look forward to seeing you next month.

Still Keeping The Fire Going

A short film promoting our Open Poetry Competition 2010 Winners’ Anthology is now available to watch online.

Keeping The Fire Going was an immediate sell-out when it was first published earlier in the year.

To discover more about this popular read, and to order your copy of the Anthology, please go here. Alternatively, why not check out our new YouTube channel to view the book’s trailer.

2010/11 Programme

We are proud to announce our 2010/11 programme.

Highlights of our new programme include visits from Taggart creator Glenn Chandler, travel writer Laurence Mitchell and children's author Paeony Lewis. We will also be welcoming back Lucy McCarraher and Jean Fullerton, both of whom proved immensely popular on their previous Circle visits.

The visiting writers in the year ahead will be giving talks, holding workshops and adjudicating our in-house competitions. We will also be holding our regular Manuscript Evenings, which give the oppourtunity for visitors and members to read their work aloud and hear feedback from our welcoming group.

Everyone is more than welcome to come along to our free Open Evening on 21st September - the first meeting of the new season.

Full programme details can be found at norwichwriters.org.uk.

We look forward to seeing you in September.

15th June Room Change

The Assembly House have asked us not to meet in The Sexton Room for our 15th June meeting.

Our 7.30pm meeting will now be held in The Kent Room.

We will be meeting for the adjudication of our Humorous Article Competition by Lynne Hackles - hope to see you there.

Happy Easter

Wishing you a Happy Easter

from everyone at Norwich Writers' Circle.

Kick-Start 2010 With Benjamin Scott

Norwich Writers' Circle's 2010 was kick-started this evening with a workshop, held by Benjamin Scott, in a packed Sexton Room at The Assembly House.

The freelance writer's fun workshop was designed to stimulate and encourage our writing ideas. The main focus of the workshop were several exercises involving the flipping of a 1p coin to randomly create a pair of unrelated characters, their environment, plus a story to fit all our creations together.

During the evening, Benjamin also set our In-House Competition Three and advised us of what he was expecting to see in our entries. Competiton Three is for the Cooper Prize and involves writing a Children's Adventure Story of around 2,000 words. Ben stated that he would like our stories to focus on a boy under 10 who goes on a journey, either literally or emotionally, and that he wanted the reader to be gripped from the first paragraph onwards.

Our next meeting sees the return of Esther Morgan, who, on 2nd February, will adjudicate our competition to write a poem of no longer than 40 lines on the theme of 'Encounters'.

We hope to see you next time.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

from everyone at Norwich Writers' Circle.

We look forward to seeing you at The Assembly House

on 19th January, for our first meeting of 2010.

Open Evening

Norwich Writer's Circle's 2009/10 programme began tonight with an Open Evening, which saw several new members join our popular writing group.

The meeting itself gave an opportunity for the new NWC members to discuss their own writing interests, plus how they hope that joining the Circle will enhance their skills further.

One of the evening's highlights was the reading of several manuscripts, some of which were written by Circle members. These varied readings included poetry, a short story for children and the beginning of a historical novel.

Further historical novel excerpts were also read out to offer an idea of what is needed for NWC's first competition of the year. Amongst the first chapters read and discussed were books by Jean Fullerton and Simon Scarrow - both of whom are writers who will be visiting Norwich Writers' Circle in the coming months.

Simon Scarrow will be the visiting writer at our next meeting on 6th October. The famed historical novelist will be giving us the chance to hear his guide to writing in this bestselling genre.

We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting.

2009/10 Programme

Details of our 2009/10 programme are now available online.

Highlights for the year ahead include historical novelist Simon Scarrow, poet Esther Morgan, and a visit from Jean Fullerton, who will be adjudicating the Circle's first competition of the year.

Our first meeting, on 15th September, will be an Open Evening. The free evening will be a chance for the Circle to introduce themselves to new members and visitors. The meeting will also feature some readings, which will help set the scene for our Historical Novel Introduction Competition.

Further details of the programme can be seen here.

We look forward to seeing you at The Assembly House.