Results of Competition 3

Tuesday 20th March 2012
The winners of Competition 3 for the Colin Sutton Cup for Humour, A Tall Tale judged by storyteller Andrew Brammer

1st “A Portrait of the Forger as a Young Man” by Sally Newton
2nd “Mrs Patterson’s Flowers” by Victoria Bartlett
3rd “Barney’s Continental Adventure” by Doreen Rosser

Laughter was the main ingredient of the evening with a twist in the tale, a misleading statement and a bumbling hero. The winners were chosen from 14 entries all of whom found life farcical and entertaining.


Forthcoming event
Our next meeting on 3rd April has a more classical bent with Peter Mieville reflecting on life and works of Charles Dickens with a talk titled “The Incomparable Mr Dick.”

Descriptive Language Workshop

Don’t forget that we begin the New Year on 17^th January with Andrew Brammer’s workshop “It’s Alive.”   Andrew intends stimulating our minds to enliven our stories by using more descriptive language.

Stumpy Sanderson's Scrapbook

Friend of Norwich Writers' Circle Andrew Brammer is performing in the city on Friday 11th March.

Andrew's new show, Stumpy Sanderson's Scrapbook - The New Wave Years, is a humorous collection of slightly tall tales about growing up in the 1970s. The evening promises to be a fun-filled and relaxing one, full of cheer, chuckles and chortles - and definitely some surprises!

The local and national award-winning storyteller's latest show will be performed at The Assembly House, 11th March at 8.00pm.

For further information, and box office details, please visit speakingwords.co.uk.

Tales Of The Unexpected

National award-winning storyteller Andrew Brammer will be performing his latest show Stumpy Sanderson's Tales Of The Very Unexpected, in Norwich next Saturday evening.

Andrew, who visited Norwich Writers' Circle in April this year, will be giving a humorous storytelling performance featuring slightly tall tales about growing up in 1970s Dunstable, at The King Of Hearts on Saturday 27th November at 7.30pm.

A fun evening of entertainment is guaranteed for all.

Andrew Brammer's Tall Tales

Thanks to a programme change earlier in the year, we welcomed Andrew Brammer to Norwich Writers' Circle tonight.

The award-winning storyteller gave us an entertaining evening on Writing Humour Based On Personal Experiences. The night included Andrew giving us a taste of his tall tales, which feature various characters growing up in 1970s Dunstable. We were then informed of the techniques Andrew uses in bringing his stories to life. These techniques included his use of language, with the emphasis of making things immediately clear to the listener.

The meeting concluded with an interesting Q&A session with the visiting writer, before we were given the opportunity to buy Andrew's latest CD, Stumpy Sanderson's Scrapbook.

This evening also saw Andrew launch our in-house competition to write a Humorous Article, of between 750 and 1,000 words, for The Colin Sutton Cup.

Our next meeting is in The Pierce Room, and will be the adjudication and prizegiving evening for our Annual Open Poetry Competition. This meeting, which will be hosted by Hilary Mellon - the competition's adjudicator - on 20th April, is one of the most popular events in our yearly programme.

Programme Change

Unfortunately, due to ill health, Lynne Hackles will no longer be speaking at our meeting on 6th April. In her place, we will be given a talk by Andrew Brammer.

Andrew is a local and national award-winning storyteller and public speaker, who will be talking to us about Writing Humour Based On Personal Experiences. During the meeting, we will also be getting a taste of Andrew's tall tales. The storyteller's tall tales have proven so popular that, within the last year, he has sold out 3 shows at The King Of Hearts.

For information on this year's programme, please go here.