Recent Successes

Victoria Bartlett’s poem was highly commended in this year’s Open Poetry Competition. “Gumbo” is featured in the 2012 Anthology which can be bought for £6 plus £1 P&P.

Please send your cheque made out to “Norwich Writers’ Circle”. to

The OPC Secretary, 1 Stannard Road Norwich NR4 7JD

Maureen Nesbit’s article “Black to Nature” entered in Walkopedia 2011 Travel Writing Competition is to be published on their website. Although not a prize winning entry it was judged as an excellent piece and will have a permanent place on their site.

Lyn Fountain’s short story: “The Bantam Menace” published in 19th May 2012 edition of Peoples Friend.

Midwinter Murders Mix

The complete Midwinter Murders series, featuring NWC members and their work, can now be listened to in one easy online mix.

Please go here to enjoy the complete Midwinter Murders.

Sex & Our Fine City

Norwich Writers' Circle committee member Lyn Fountain is celebrating another success.

Lyn's short story Sex And The City o'Nourridge was 3rd in the Friends Of Norfolk Dialect Trosher Short Story Competition 2011.

This Sunday evening - the 16th - FOND's annual pantomine at North Elmham Village Hall is set to feature the competition prize-giving and a chance to hear the winning works.

For more information on the competition and more, please go to norfolkdialect.com.

People's Friend

Congratulations to NWC committee member Lyn Fountain who had a short story published in The People's Friend towards the end of last year.

Lyn's story, entitled A Footballer In The Family, was featured in the issue dated 6th November 2010. We hope to listen to the story at one of our forthcoming meetings.

Gentle Footprints

Today's Hay Festival saw of the launch of the wildlife short story anthology, Gentle Footprints, by Virginia McKenna.

This evening, the famed actress and wildlife campaigner appeared on Sky Arts' popular Book Show - broadcast live from the Festival - to promote the anthology's recent publication.

Amongst the 19 short stories featured in Gentle Footprints is The Last Big Cat, written by NWC committee member Lyn Fountain.

Lyn's recent appearance on BBC Radio Norfolk, promoting the anthology and her short story, can be heard by clicking here.

To purchase the book, which has has been published to raise funds and awareness of the Born Free Foundation, please go here.

Walk On The Wild Side

Norwich Writers' Circle member Lyn Fountain has had her short story The Last Big Cat accepted for inclusion in a forthcoming anthology called Gentle Footprints.

The wildlife story collection, due to be published in June this year, on behalf of the Born Free Foundation, by Bridge House, also features a new short story from Richard Adams and a foreward written by the charity's patron, Virginia McKenna.

For read more about this exciting forthcoming publication, please visit gentlefootprintsanimalanthology.blogspot.com.

Season's Greetings From Toad Hall

Lyn Fountain - writing as Marilyn Fountain - has had a short story entitled Welcome To Toad Hall included in an anthology called The Wind In The Willows Short Stories, published by The Kenneth Grahame Society.

The book is currently available through Lulu.com, in a casewrap hardcover and as a paperback.

The anthology will also soon be available from Amazon, and is destined to be a popular read over the festive season.