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.
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