Thames Valley
Writers' Circle Meetings
Meetings
are held weekly on Tuesday evenings from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, with breaks at
holiday times. The venue for the meetings
is St Joseph's Church Hall, situated on the corner of Park Lane and Berkshire
Drive, Tilehurst, Reading RG31 5JJ (click
here for map).
Thames
Valley Writers' Circle is self-funding and subscriptions are on a
pay-as-you-attend basis. This is
currently £3.00 per session or £2.00 for senior citizens and the unwaged. This 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 homework) which are either judged
by an outside expert or by members themselves.