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‘Buried Letters’ on BBC Sounds
‘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
Book launch and exhibition : Vice & Virtue, the history of Old Market
We may not have taken on any new group projects lately, but our members have been as busy as ever. Since last year Louise Gethin, has been proud to be involved in Vice and Virtue, an initiative exploring the history of Old Market with the book launch and exhibition happening on July 16th 2015 at Trinity…
More Banksy than Bonnets it certainly was
While we rub our hands and gloat over a very tasty bag of submissions for our next event, here’s Gail’s snapshot of Stokes Croft Writers’ carefully managed assault on the genteel cobbles of Bath. It was a steamy hot summer night on the not-so-mean streets of Bath, when a motley crew of Bristol writers came…

Whatever Happened to Travel?
Writers travelling in search of better health and producing novels and journals in the process, loom quite large in English literature. There was D H Lawrence moving restlessly around the Med and roosting in the New Mexican desert, Katherine Mansfield enduring misery in the south of France, and poor Keats dragging himself to Rome – all seeking the magic cure for TB.
A time to reap, a time to sow, a time to NaNoWriMo?
Sally Hare gives her advice on what – and what not – to expect if you’re brave enough to take up the Nanowrimo challenge. Remember, remember, the first of November … I wonder if you, like me, feel a certain restlessness at this time each year? As late summer warmth turns to autumnal bluster,…
Then there were 10: our line-up for next Sunday
Thanks to all the wonderful people who have talked, tweeted or written about us (not to mention all those who sent something in) we are delighted to announce our line-up for Sunday 21st which looks like being as spinetingling (in a slightly different way) as our November event. Our readers will be (not necessarily in this…