Submissions open for our Spring event
Our next Story Sunday is March 19th
The theme is Another Country.
Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.

Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.

This latest update is quite an exciting one. The DI Crow series is currently going through a revision, and Her Last Chance, The Killing Ground and A Fatal Pact will be back on Amazon over the coming weeks, in collaboration with a fantastic Bristol-based publisher, Malago Press. It’s great to see my favourite detective published…
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…
On Saturday October 11th, we are joining our good friends Southville Writers for a local author showcase in Foyles Cabot Circus to celebrate the ‘Books are my Bag’ day which encourages us all to use our bookshops more. The event will start at 2 pm and go on until 7 pm, so do pop in if…
Since I finally ‘came out’ as a crime writer last spring, with the publication of Her Last Chance, the first in the DI Crow crime thriller series, the questions I’ve been asked most by those who know me is, ‘Where did the urge to write crime come from?’ usually followed by ‘What on earth goes on in your head?’ After all, once I yank my leopard print shopping trolley out of the cupboard and head off to the local supermarket, the only crime-busting hero I remotely resemble is Miss Marple.
This week we’re delighted to welcome our first ever guest blogger, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt. We invited her because three of us, Gail, Shirley and Ali, all read her debut novel While No One Was Watching and all absolutely loved it. The book (Ali’s review is here) tells the story of what else might have happened in…
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…