Writers Online March 2015 - Writer's Roundup
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Writers’ News • March 2015 • www.writers-online.co.uk WN19 This is a regular Writers’ News section devoted to writing and literary groups. If your group has an event to publicise, needs to pick up tips from other groups, or wants to raise an issue affecting writers, this is the place for you. Write to: Writers’ Round-Up, Writers’ News, Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD; email: [email protected] Also on: www.writers-online.co.uk WRITERS’ ROUND-UP SPOTLIGHT ON… ‘Twenty experienced and experimental writers meet fortnightly in the cosy back bar at Rottingdean Club, where we share themed “homework” set by that month’s chair and participate in creative exercises to improve our writing,’ writes Kate Harmond Allen. ‘We also enjoy discussions with occasional guest speakers. ‘We organise ourselves on co-operative principles. Members take turns to set the agenda and manage the meeting: this makes for constant variety and ensures that the role is never too burdensome. Our philosophy is to listen and to appreciate works of all genres – drama, fiction, memoir or poetry – and offer constructive criticism in a supportive atmosphere. ‘Rottingdean Writers’ Group is endorsed by best-selling Sussex novelists, including bestselling crime writer Peter James, who said: “I believe groups such as yours are important in so many ways. Whenever I finish a book the first thing I want to do is have people, whose judgement I trust, to read and comment on it.” ‘Rottingdean Writers are keen participants at Brighton Fringe, and we have been runners-up for best literary event for the last two years. In May 2015 we are hosting new interactive workshops Writers Allowed Encore! Performance poet Catherine Smith will join us at the fabulous English Language Centre in Hove, appropriately once home to the “Stephens’ Ink” family. This time we are determined to win! ‘The first Sussex Poets’ competition was devised last year by Rottingdean Writers’ Group, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Arts Council. Our new Four Counties poetry competition closed on 30 January, with substantial cash prizes presented by judge John McCullough, academic and prize-winning poet. ‘We believe in building inspirational collaboratives with writers, artists and galleries, designing joint events and sharing creative learning.’ Details: tel: 07889 98384; email: [email protected] website: www.rottingdeanwritersgroup.co.uk ROTTINGDEAN WRITERS’ GROUP, EAST SUSSEX BARE WRITERS ‘We are four writers who met on a writing course in the seaside town of Morecambe in Lancashire,’ writes Jean Lindsay. ‘We got on well and when the course came to an end, decided to meet up again, but this time as a writers’ group. A local church hall let us use a meeting room at a reasonable rate and Bare Writers was born. We had to find a name for ourselves and decided on Bare Writers not only because Bare is the suburb of Morecambe where we hold our meetings, but also because we try to strip our writing down, expose emotions, “bare”. ‘Each of us is old enough to have lots of life experience and we are able to draw on those experiences in our writing, although it must be said we are not too old to enjoy and look for “new” life experiences. ‘All our members have been writing for a long time and most of us have had work published, but we find that just meeting up with like-minded people is a tremendous boost, because as everyone knows, writing can be a solitary experience. We meet twice a month and try to give each other support and encouragement, generating ideas with exercises and homework. If anyone has work in progress and they want to read it to the group for feedback, helpful critiques are always given. ‘We have just published our first anthology, High Tide, and are all justifiably proud of the result. The book is split into four sections with a section for each author and contains short stories and poems as diverse as the members themselves. ‘The group is still a little on the small side but Bare Writers are open to expansion and would welcome new members if they would like to get in touch.’ Email: [email protected] ; [email protected] THE SCP FOUNDATION ‘The SCP Foundation (short for “Special Containment Procedures” or its motto, “Secure, Contain, Protect”) is an online writing community and wiki focused on short, flash fiction-style horror and science fiction pieces,’ writes Drewbear, one of its administrators. ‘The core of the community’s works are documents from the fictional Foundation, an organisation dedicated to preserving normality by containing and suppressing information about anything that would threaten humanity’s perception of a rational universe. These documents detail the descriptions and containment procedures for fantastical, horrific, and potentially world- ending creatures, objects, people, and phenomena. ‘While the SCP file is the core writing format on the site, there is also an extensive subset of more traditionally formatted short and medium-length stories within the setting of the Foundation’s universe, ranging from “slice of life” vignettes to epic battles for the survival of the world. And far from consisting solely of writers, the SCP Foundation community has produced a large amount of artwork, music, games, and even movies. ‘The community is international in scope, with thriving sister sites in seven other languages, each of which not only has translated pieces from the original website, but an extensive collection of original works. ‘A fanbase tens of thousands strong also congregates in the SCP Foundation’s official Facebook page, Reddit forum (/r/SCP), Tumblr (scp-wiki-official), and IRC chat channels to share their creations, theories, and ideas regarding the Foundation and its wider universe.’ Website: www.scp-wiki.net; subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/scp wnp18-19 march.indd 19 23/01/2015 11:57
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Writers’ News • March 2015 • www.writers-online.co.uk WN19
This is a regular Writers’ News section devoted to writing and literary groups. If your group has an event to publicise, needs to pick up tips from other groups, or wants to raise an issue affecting writers, this is the place for you.
Write to: Writers’ Round-Up, Writers’ News, Warners Group Publications plc, 5th Floor, 31-32 Park Row, Leeds LS1 5JD; email: [email protected]
Also on: www.writers-online.co.uk
WRITERS’ ROUND-UP
SPOTLIGHT ON…
‘Twenty experienced and experimental writers meet fortnightly in the cosy back bar at Rottingdean Club, where we share themed “homework” set by that month’s chair and participate in creative exercises to improve our writing,’ writes Kate Harmond Allen.
‘We also enjoy discussions with occasional guest speakers.‘We organise ourselves on co-operative principles. Members take
turns to set the agenda and manage the meeting: this makes for constant variety and ensures that the role is never too burdensome. Our philosophy is to listen and to appreciate works of all genres – drama, fi ction, memoir or poetry – and offer constructive criticism in a supportive atmosphere.
‘Rottingdean Writers’ Group is endorsed by best-selling Sussex novelists, including bestselling crime writer Peter James, who said: “I believe groups such as yours are important in so many ways. Whenever I fi nish a book the fi rst thing I want to do is have people, whose judgement I trust, to read and comment on it.”
‘Rottingdean Writers are keen participants at Brighton Fringe, and we have been runners-up for best literary event for the last two years. In May 2015 we are hosting new interactive workshops Writers Allowed Encore! Performance poet Catherine Smith will join us at the fabulous English Language Centre in Hove, appropriately once home to the “Stephens’ Ink” family. This time we are determined to win!
‘The fi rst Sussex Poets’ competition was devised last year by Rottingdean Writers’ Group, in partnership with Brighton & Hove Arts Council. Our new Four Counties poetry competition closed on 30 January, with substantial cash prizes presented by judge John McCullough, academic and prize-winning poet.
‘We believe in building inspirational collaboratives with writers, artists and galleries, designing joint events and sharing creative learning.’
Details: tel: 07889 98384; email: [email protected] website: www.rottingdeanwritersgroup.co.uk
ROTTINGDEAN WRITERS’ GROUP, EAST SUSSEX
BARE WRITERS‘We are four writers who met on a writing course in the seaside town of Morecambe in Lancashire,’ writes Jean Lindsay.
‘We got on well and when the course came to an end, decided to meet up again, but this time as a writers’ group. A local church hall let us use a meeting room at a reasonable rate and Bare Writers was born. We had to fi nd a name for ourselves and decided on Bare Writers not only because Bare is the suburb of Morecambe where we hold our meetings, but also because we try to strip our writing down, expose emotions, “bare”.
‘Each of us is old enough to have lots of life experience and we are able to draw on those experiences in our writing, although it must be said we are not too old to enjoy and look for “new” life experiences.
‘All our members have been writing for a long time and most of us have had work published, but we fi nd that just meeting up with like-minded people is a tremendous boost, because as everyone knows, writing can be a solitary experience. We meet twice a month and try to give each other support and encouragement, generating ideas with exercises and homework. If anyone has work in progress and they want to read it to the group for feedback, helpful critiques are always given.
‘We have just published our fi rst anthology, High Tide, and are all justifi ably proud of the result. The book is split into four sections with a section for each author and contains short stories and poems as diverse as the members themselves.
‘The group is still a little on the small side but Bare Writers are open to expansion and would welcome new members if they would like to get in touch.’
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
THE SCP FOUNDATION
‘The SCP Foundation (short for “Special Containment Procedures” or its motto, “Secure, Contain, Protect”) is an online writing community and wiki focused on short, fl ash fi ction-style horror and science fi ction pieces,’ writes Drewbear, one of its administrators. ‘The core of the community’s works are documents from the fi ctional Foundation, an organisation dedicated to preserving normality by containing and suppressing information about anything that would threaten humanity’s perception of a rational universe. These documents detail the descriptions and containment procedures for fantastical, horrifi c, and potentially world-ending creatures, objects, people, and phenomena.
‘While the SCP fi le is the core writing format on the site, there is also an extensive subset of more traditionally formatted short and medium-length stories within the setting of the Foundation’s universe, ranging from “slice of life” vignettes to epic battles for the survival of the world. And far from consisting solely of writers, the SCP Foundation community has produced a large amount of artwork, music, games, and even movies.
‘The community is international in scope, with thriving sister sites in seven other languages, each of which not only has translated pieces from the original website, but an extensive collection of original works.
‘A fanbase tens of thousands strong also congregates in the SCP Foundation’s offi cial Facebook page, Reddit forum (/r/SCP), Tumblr (scp-wiki-offi cial), and IRC chat channels to share their creations, theories, and ideas regarding the Foundation and its wider universe.’
Website: www.scp-wiki.net; subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/scp
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