After her guest slot on BBC Radio Bristol last Saturday (two days left to catch up here), Shirley is fast becoming a local celebrity, but she has found time to tell us some of her writing secrets in today’s post. What are you working on now? Poetry, almost exclusively. I’ve become fascinated with…
On Friday there’s a chance to celebrate Bristol’s Tbilisi connection and hear from Meg Clothier, journalist and author of The Girl King, a novel about Queen Tamar of Georgia. Meg will be at Foyles on Friday March 7th (6pm start) discussing her book with our own Jean Burnett who is a long-time member of the Bristol…
We hope that friends old and new will join us on Saturday 11th October at Foyles in Bristol. If you think you can make it, you’ll need a ticket, so please don’t forget to register on Foyles’ website
Our group has been tagged by Nina on her Kitchen Table Writers blog (great news on the Fish Prize, Nina!) to answer questions about our writing process. So we’re going to take turns to reveal at least some of our writing secrets. First up is Gail. What am I working on now? My novel-in-the-writing is about a remote…
Really looking forward to Saturday 5th September when we’re off to Corsham Creative Market where Jo Lambert will be joining the usual gang to run a book stall with great variety and lots of bargains at Springfield Community Campus. For those who don’t know Corsham, the old town centre is a real gem (and recently masqueraded as…
The creative process. The writer’s methodology. Inspiration versus perspiration. Whatever words you want to use. But as a writer you will know that there are two distinct facets to your writing life. Loosely termed, they are the creative and the craft. I’m not saying anything that any writer doesn’t already know, but having been entrenched…