Meetings
are held weekly on Tuesday evenings from
Thames
Valley Writers' Circle is self-funding and subscriptions are on a
pay-as-you-attend basis. This is
currently £3.00 per session which pays for the hire of the meeting room, guest
speakers, publishing anthologies etc. It
also includes tea or coffee and biscuits at half-time.
Most
meetings are devoted to members reading their own work, which is commented on
by the others present. Members are encouraged to make positive, constructive
comments. Members with longer works can
also produce copies for others to take away and return with comments.
We
also arrange workshops and occasional guest speakers. We organise trips to outside talks or
workshops and reciprocal visits to other writers' groups (see calendar).
Details
of local and national writing and poetry competitions are circulated to
members. We also conduct our own
competitions (see Competitions and Homework) which are either judged by an outside expert
or by members themselves.