Rural Read

Congratulations to long-term Norwich Writer's Circle member Vera Clouting who has had a short article published in the May 2011 edition of The Countryman magazine.

We were luck enough to listen to the article at our recent Manuscript Evening where it proved to be a popular read.

Underworld

Congratulations to NWC member Elspeth Rushbrook who has another article published in Fine City Magazine.

Elspeth's most recent article examines the world of undercrofts beneath our familar city streets.

Issue 10 of the free lifestyle publication is now widely available throughout Norwich.

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.

Poetry Outline

News of Norwich Writers’ Circle’s 40th Open Poetry Competition has now reached the 35,000+ readers of Outline Magazine.

Details of the OPC, which closes on the 15th February, not the 5th as stated, are featured within the Art & About section of the listings magazine, which is widely distributed for free throughout Norwich.

For more information on the Open Poetry Competition, please visit norwichwriters.org.uk/poetry, or read the magazine article below from the January 2011 issue:

For Women Who Write

The deadine for the Mslexia's annual Short Story Competition is the 24th January 2011.

The competition, which this year will be judged by Jackie Kay, has a first prize of £2,000.00, plus a day with an editor at Virago, and a week-long writing retreat at Chawton House Library, home to early English women's writing.

Five other winners will share prizes totalling £1,050.00. All six competition winners will then published in the New Writing section of the magazine.

Get writing this festive season!

Fine City Cinema

Congratulations to NWC member Elspeth Rushbrook, who has had an article published in Fine City Magazine.

Elspeth's article is about the history of Suckling Hall, located in St Andrew's Street, which is better known today as Cinema City.

The magazine feature is also the first in a series looking at other important buildings in our fine city, which have been overlooked by the Norwich 12 tourism initiative.

Issue 6 of Fine City Magazine is widely available throughout Norwich, for no charge. Check it out.

Lost In Austen

Congratulations to new NWC member Elspeth Rushbrook who has had a guest essay published in Jane Austen's Regency World.

The guest essay features in the magazine's November/December 2010 issue, which will available to buy later on in the year.

To purchase your copy of the magazine, which is published by The Jane Austen Centre in Bath, please go here.

French Passion

New NWC member Phyllida Scrivens has successful pitched an article to Practical Motorhome magazine.

The article, which will be published in February 2011 edition of the magazine, is about the France Passion scheme.

Congratulations from everyone at Norwich Writers' Circle.

Picture This Again With John Worrall

This evening, at The Assembly House, we welcomed John Worrall back to Norwich Writers' Circle.

Following his visit to us earlier in the year, John returned to adjudicate our competition to write an Article With A Local Theme of 800 words, + / - 20.

In addtion to John's constructive criticism of the competition entries, we also heard how he had had an entertaining time reading the 10 entrants. The writer and photographer also stressed to us the factors that make up a good article, including getting the reader hooked at the start, keeping their attention in the middle and then finishing off the piece properly.

The winners of the competition were:

1st
Booming Adult Ballet Classes
by Anne Sanderson

2nd
The Cathedral In The Fields
by Elizabeth Bencze

3rd
On Wishbone Ash
by Stuart McCarthy

After hearing the winning articles, we then listened to 2 more competition entries, both of which focused on the vibrant shops and colourful marketplace in Norwich.

Our next meeting is on 1st June, and will be an interactive workshop on Presentation & Punctuation by Anne Funnell.

We hope to see you next time.

Spotlight On Norwich Writers Circle

A history of our increasingly popular writing group has been featured in the Spotlight On... section of Writers' News. The interesting and enjoyable article has been written by Norwich Writers' Circle committee member Maureen Nisbet, and can be seen in the April edition of the magazine, out today.

Picture This With John Worrall

At The Assembly House this evening, Norwich Writers' Circle welcomed John Worrall, who gave us an interesting talk on Illustrated Features.

The writer and photographer's practical talk covered his 4 recommendations for getting your feature published.

The 4 areas highlighted to us were:

• Idea
• Pitch
• Writing The Feature / Doing It
• Doing It For Someone Else

Each of the areas above were covered in some detail by John, before we were then shown numerous examples, in books and magazines, of the visiting writers' work. The work shown to us then lead to a short Q&A session with the writer.

Tonight also saw the launch of our in-house Competition Four by John. This competition is the writing of an Article With A Local Theme of 800 words, + / - 20.

Our next meeting is the adjudication of Children's Adventure Story Competition, for The Cooper Prize, by Benjamin Scott. The above meeting is on 16th March , and we hope to see you there.

Short Story Success

Congratulations to Norwich Writers' Circle Vice President June Sutton who had her short story, The Edge Of Lonely, published in an edition of Woman's Weekly last month.

Contessa 32 Magazine Success

Congratulations to Circle member Jean Shackleton who has had two articles published in Contessa 32 magazine.

The interesting articles on yachting life, entitled News From The East and Boxing In The Baltic With Another Bob, can be found in the magazine's Summer 2009 issue.

The articles will also be available for everyone to read from our 15th September meeting onwards.