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Meeting at: Strollers Café Goldsworth Park Woking The writers' circle is aimed at encouraging and supporting local writers of all kinds. We meet every third Thursday of the month to share ideas, hear news, and to receive informal positive feedback on each others work. The Circle supports appropriate local writing events |
Arts Council for Woking showcase Competition Saturday 13 July Click here to see all winners and entries. |
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NEWS
WOKING AND WEST BYFLEET POETRY COMPETITION 2008
Woking Writers Circle members Sharyn Owen and Derrick Sheehan came first and second in the adult section of this competition with their poems Waiting For Spring and Too Many. The competition was organised by Maureen Osborne, and judged by Maureen and local author and songwriter Jonathan Steffen. The awards were presented at a packed West Byfleet library on Sunday November 2. All the prize winners were briefly interviewed by the judges, who provided comments on the work of those who were highly commended as well. Greg Freeman of the Writers Circle was highly commended for his poem, The Refugees. It was a heart-warming occasion with a real community feel, and hopefully Maureen will organise another next year. Click here to read the poem by Sharyn and here to read the poem by Derrick.
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Woking Writers Circle launched Podium, its 2008 anthology of members’ work, with a public reading at the Woking’s Lightbox museum and gallery on March 2. It was fitting that it was also Mothers Day, as Podium had taken its team of editors about nine months to produce. The event itself was masterminded by our chairman Liz Lennie, coordinated by Diana Smith, and compered by Dermot Hoare. Many members read from their work that is published in the anthology. Those who read included the above, plus Liz Ramsdale, Ian Hearnden, Amanda Briggs, Elle Georgiou, Greg Freeman, Richard Mann, and Martha Amos, whose performance poem, I’m In Love With An Engineer, won the Slam poetry prize at the Guildford Book Festival in 2007. |
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Latest revision 25 November 2008
