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Midsummer Madness – full programme

ByHeather Child June 29, 2016

Here t’is!

Sunday’s full programme. Tickets £5 on the door.

Southbank Club Bedminster, BS3 1DB
6.30 – 8.30 pm

Come and support our brave readers. (Note to brave readers: we can’t wait!)

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Short stories: how long and where from?

ByHeather Child January 21, 2014

Nina Milton continues with her short story advice. There is only one rule that can never be broken, and that is length. A short story has to be short. But how short? Are there minimum or maximum word counts that short fiction must sit between?: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms says that a short…

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All set for Tales of Our City

ByAli Bacon October 7, 2019September 15, 2020

At last your submissions are in and our minds are made up – no mean feat! And so we can tell you the stories you’ll hear on October 20th are by: Dylan Spicer, Liz Clarke, Shirley Wright, Mary March, Mark Rutterford and our own Dawn Kelly and Jean Burnett, not forgetting a guest appearance bywriter…

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The Rest of the Bristol Litfest

ByHeather Child October 19, 2016

Although we’re focused on The Twilight Zone, our members are making best use they can of the rest of our lovely Bristol Litfest. Here are a few events we’re involved in or can recommend. Friday 21st, 7 pm The Flash Slam at 51 Stokes Croft Five local writing groups ‘compete’ to come up with the best flash fiction…

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The Twilight Zone approaches

ByHeather Child October 17, 2016

Yes, at 6pm next Sunday you can enter a world of mesmerising and mind-bending stories read by their writers. Our call for submissions has been the best yet and in a break with tradition we at WU are standing aside in favour of a full programme of guest writers. Our line-up includes not only star local writer/performers but also newcomers…

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Madness it was … (or “phwoah, what a scorcher!”)

ByHeather Child August 5, 2016

Help. Autumn is nearly upon as and you’re wondering what happened to midsummer. For us it all came down to a rather warm evening at Southbank Club and a great line-up of readers who entertained us with tales of doomed love, doomed window-cleaning, febrile festivals and disturbingly real trouser snakes. Amongst all the general insanity we…

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‘Buried Letters’ on BBC Sounds

ByHelen Parker-Drabble August 22, 2023November 21, 2023

‘Buried Letters’ appeared on BBC Radio Bristol between 7-10pm Fri 18 Aug 2023. It is is a short piece of award-winning creative writing based on Chloris Drabble

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