Lucy McCarraher Adjudication

Tonight saw Lucy McCarraher return to Norwich Writers' Circle once more, this time to adjudicate our Novel Outline Competition.

The competition was set by the author and tutor when she last visited us in November 2010.

Lucy commended all 10 competition entries, commenting on the eclectic nature and wide-ranging stories entered.

Following a short adjudication, we were given a chance to hear the winning competition entries, plus a few addition ones.

The winning entries were:

1st - The Ivy Ferrari Trophy
Spices And Sunset
by Maureen Nisbet

2nd
The Lady Of Lion Mountain
by Sally Newton

3rd
No So Marvellous City
by Phyllida Scrivens

Our 2010/2011 programme continues on 15th February when she shall be holding one of our regular Manuscript Evenings.

We hope to see you soon.

Lucy McCarraher Returns

Tonight saw Lucy McCarraher return to Norwich Writers' Circle.

The author and tutor, who first visited NWC in October 2009, returned to give us a workshop on how to structure a novel.

The entertaining workshop, which sparked a variety of interesting exchanges, covered several points, most notable of which were:

• what is the inspiration for our novel?
• what do the characters experience?
• where the story is set? and,
• is there conflict featured in the main plot?

Tonight's meeting was also the launch of our Competition Three - to write an outline of a novel in no more than 1,000 words. Lucy will be returning to NWC once more, this time to adjudicate the competition, which closes on the 14th December.

We next on 7th December, when Taggart creator Glenn Chandler will be adjudicating our short Radio Script competition.

We hope to see you next time.

Visiting Writers Celebration

Our recently launched YouTube channel has been updated to include a film which celebrates all the visiting writers from NWC's 2009/10 programme.

Amongst the featured writers included in the short video are Simon Scarrow, Lucy McCarraher and Jean Fullerton, the latter two of whom will be returning to the Circle in the coming months.

To view the film, simply click here.

Lucy McCarraher: On Demand

At The Assembly House this evening, Norwich Writers' Circle's 2009/10 programme continued, in a packed Sexton Room.

Our latest meeting featured Lucy McCarraher, who discussed her writing career to date, and how she became an author.

Lucy described to us how her previous publishing experiences with Macmillan led to her books being sold over the internet. The visiting writer stated that she believed that print on demand was the future of publishing, due to the amount of control it gives the author. The only downside to being published using POD is that, once your book has been published, and for any chance of success, you must be prepared to organise the promotionial work yourself.

The evening ended by Lucy taking part in a Q&A session, which gave visitors and Circle members the opportunity to ask questions raised by the author's interesting talk.

Esther Morgan will be hosting a Poetry Workshop at our next meeting on 3rd November. We hope to see you then.