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Events | News | Performing | Story SundayAll set for Tales of Our City
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…
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…
The allure of research – and a plagiarist uncovered
‘What beats me is how a domestic dinosaur has become a chic badge of prosperity.’ Nicola’s recent article in the FT questioned the benefits of cooking on an Aga. For her biography she has left the present day and is delving back into the eighteenth century. Here are some of her recent experiences of research….
Where Can Books Take Us? Free workshop coming up
It has been a busy few months since our launch in October with Bristol Women Writers members taking parts in lots of events around the Bristol area as well as knuckling down to get on with our own writing projects. (Yes, we write stuff too!) But now we’re ready to ‘go public’ again with a…
Women’s rights: only for the good times?
Jean Burnett asks if our hard-won rights are are less secure than we think. Feminist writers have frequently highlighted the connection between hard times and a backlash against working mothers in particular and working women generally. This begs the question, is the issue of women’s rights a moveable feast…is it a case of yes, dear…
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From the Spanish Civil War to Snakes and Ladders
Two book launches in the last month! It’s been a bumper summer for Writers Unchained members. A Forbidden Love Kerry Postle launched her fabulous second book A Forbidden Love at Max Minerva’s Marvellous Books in Bristol this July. The audience were fascinated to hear about where Kerry’s research had taken her – into the intricacies…





