Thames
Valley Writers' Circle News
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August 2010
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Monday 9th
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Pick and Mix Anthology launched – send in your works! Short stories and articles up to 1500 words maximum and poems up to 40 lines. Mary is asking all the members to send in two stories, two articles or up to six poems (or even a mixture…) Send your contribution(s) to Stuart |
Wednesday 4th
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Jan’s play “Romantic Hero“ has been shortlisted in the “Pint Sized Plays” competition (see: http://www.pintsizedplays.org.uk/) . There were nearly 200 entries and the shortlist is 36. These will now be judged by Theatre Director, Phil Clark and the ten winners announced later this month. |
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July
2010
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Friday 30th
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Optional Homework for the Summer Hols!
Knickers!
Why is there such ecstasy over such an unflattering garment?
…see Homework
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Thursday 29th
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Richard is taking his evacuee book ‘Six Spoons of Sugar’ to the States in August. See the Press
Release!
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Tuesday 27th
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AGM
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June
2010
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Monday 14th
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An optional homework competition has been set for 20th
July – see Homework.
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Thursday 10th
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Claudette has written a musical (or is it a midsummer pantomime?) entitled “The Three Wonders” which is to be
performed at the Oakwood Theatre in Woodley on the 9th. and 10th.
of July. – see: http://www.woodleytheatre.org/Youth-Theatre
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Tuesday 1st
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There were many envious writers amongst the large audience last night
for our guest speaker, crime fiction writer Leigh Russell.
Click here for a report by Dick.
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April
2010
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Wednesday 28th
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Stop
Press The
results of the Arthur Redway Memorial Competitin:
Winner Joyce
Robinson with “The Wolf Time”
Runner-up Les Williams with
“Compact but has Potential”
Third place Nick Telepneff with “Revelation”
Read all the Gothic tales – click
here
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Tuesday 27th
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Clare entered the Bridge
House Publishing Company’s debut novel competition and has now made it to
their short list
(1 of 6 novels selected) with “Moving Over Snow.”
Fingers crossed she’ll have even better news soon!
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Sunday 25th
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Elizabeth’s latest novel “April and May” will be launched on Thursday 10th June at Caversham Library
from 7.15pm -9.00pm. (Free
parking available behind Waitrose across the road from the Library.)
Wine, soft drinks and nibbles [some of them Turkish] will be served.
Guests can rub Aladdin's lamp for a fee of 10 pence, to be put into a
collecting tin for Help for Heroes.
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March
2010
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Wednesday 31st.
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Arthur
Redway Memorial Competition
12 Gothic Tales have been received
– read them by clicking
here..
If you might not be present at
the meeting on 27th April – don’t forget to vote by email!
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February
2010
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Tuesday 23rd.
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Our annual one-act-play
competition was again judged by David Casals.
In first place he chose “Out of the Zone” by
Dick Sawdon Smith, in second place was “Taken In” by
Jan Sprenger and in third place “The
Gift” by Mary Pooley.
See Competitions
for a brief report by Dick.
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Friday 19th.
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One-Act Plays - Don’t forget to get your script to your nominated actors before the
meeting on Tuesday!
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Tuesday 16th.
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The winner of the
homework competition was Les Cooper
with “The naughty wife of Reading” and Neil was a close second.
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Tuesday 2nd.
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Victoria
has had an article, “Beauty Sleep – how to get the most from
your slumber” accepted for publication in
Simple Joy – an American on-line magazine (see: www.simplejoy.org ).
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January
2010
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Saturday 23rd
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Wednesday 20th
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Monday 11th
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Jess will be reading from and signing copies of her novel, “Child of the Hive”
at Waterstones in the Oracle on Saturday 13th February, from 11am until 2pm.
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December
2009
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Tuesday 15th
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The cup for member
of the year 2009 was presented to Elizabeth.
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Tuesday 1st
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Our guest speaker was Diane Bethel, a lecturer at the School of Media at Thames
Valley University at Ealing, who gave an illustrated talk on writing for
the screen. Click
here for a brief report by Dick.
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November
2009
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Tuesday 24th
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Mary’s story ‘Blitz’ has been commended in
the Leaf Books
Micro-Fiction Competition 2009. (see: www.leafbooks.co.uk )
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Tuesday 10th
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Richard has finally got his article
describing the launch of “Six Spoons...” published – in Writing
Magazine. Read
a copy here!
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Tuesday 3rd
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There were thirteen(!)
entries for this year’s Halloween/Bonfire short story
competition.
The winners were decided as usual by the
votes of members present on the evening.
First prize went
to Les 2 with “No
Tricks, No Treats” second to Chris with “Not
the Ghost of an Idea”
and third to Joyce with “Jenny”
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October
2009
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Tuesday 27th
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Richard won
the Dialogue competition run by the Hastings Writers’ Group – judged by a
senior lecturer in English at Brighton University.
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Tuesday 13th
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Another
success for Dick – his short
story 'The
Legend of St Barbe's Fountain' has appeared on the front page of the October
issue of the on-line Magazine
“Brittany Writers”.
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Thursday 9th
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Claudette may not have
won in Cannes – but her new play, “Vive la Retraite” (“Happy
Retirement”) won another competition – and is being performed in
Orléans on Saturday 24th! See www.viesenscene.fr (Mr. Google will translate it
for you!) The play is
also being published in a book entitled “Vies en Scène”
(“Life on the Stage”) - for the 2nd national competition of creative writing
for the theatre, 2009.
Publisher : (Editions) ABS see: www.abseditions.com
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Wednesday 7th
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Dick Sawdon Smith's play 'The 11.57', written
originally for our one-act-play competition, has been selected to
be performed by the Progress theatre for this year's 'Write-fest'
The dates are
22nd, 23rd and 24th October at 7.45pm. Tickets are available on 0118
960600 or via www.readingarts.com,
click on 'other venues' and put 'progress' in the keyword box. They
are priced at £7 or £8 online.
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September
2009
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Tuesday 22nd
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Claudette’s play “Big Ben” is in a shortlist
of five in a competition in Cannes. It is being performed (and
judged) on Sunday evening at 6:00 pm. We wish her bonne chance!
Click to read the
synopsis or the
programme (in French).
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Tuesday 8 th
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There were three
joint winners of the Summer Homework competition – Joyce, Neil and Nick T. (See Homework)
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Tuesday
1st
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Jess’ novel, “Child of the Hive,” is to be
published later this month – see Successes
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August
2009
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Sunday 16th
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Elizabeth chats with Debbie McGee on BBC Radio Berkshire about
elements of writing a book.
Click
here to listen again…
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Sunday 9th
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Colin is interviewed by Clare Catford on BBC Radio Berkshire about his
life, his beliefs and his new book.
Click
here to listen again… (Recording by Dick.)
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Saturday 8th
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Colin’s new book of fifty
poems, all of which can be sung to old tunes, has been published – and is
available in the shops from today, priced £7.50.
(See Successes)
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July
2009
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Tuesday 28th
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The short
story competition, judged by Iain Pattison, was won by Nick Cross with Chris Mundy second and Dick Sawdon Smith third.
Details are on the Competitions
page.
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Tuesday 21st
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Chris Davidson has had her
book “Goodnight,
Sweet Prince” published by Best Global Publishing. For details,
visit her website: http://chrisdavidson.info/index.html
or better still, buy a copy today from Amazon!
Elizabeth has
set an optional Summer Homework to occupy members during the long summer evenings!
It’s for short stories or poems which will be read and judged on 8th
September – for details, see Homework .
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Tuesday 14th
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Our guest
speaker was Diana
Birchall who is a story analyst for Warner Brothers in
Hollywood – but that’s only her day job.
First and
foremost she is a writer… Click
here for more.
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June
2009
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Tuesday 23rd
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Congratulations
to Dorothy – her poem “Why did I hesitate?” won third
place in the Tilehurst Eisteddfod 2009.
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May
2009
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Tuesday 19th
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Our guest
speaker Iain
Pattison gave a very interesting talk on “Writing for
Magazines” – click
here for a brief report.
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Tuesday 12th
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The 2009 Short Story Competition to be judged
by Iain Pattison
announced. (see Competitions)
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Tuesday 5th
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Clare’s short
story “Like Soft Fruit” (her entry for the Arthur Redway memorial
competition) has been selected for publication in “Sand - a Journal of
Strange Tales” (see Successes)
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April
2009
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Tuesday 28th
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The first winner
of the Arthur
Redway Trophy was Patricia
Pycraft with her story ‘Love amongst the Gargoyles’
see Competitions
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Thursday 9th
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Sad News flash
from Liz: I'm moving
back to the US at the end of June. We (my husband, dog and I) were supposed
to stay through the end of the year - but the economic crunch is sending us
back earlier than we had planned. (I’m here via my husband's company so,
blame it on his employer.) I'd like to continue my membership
stateside, so I'll just be an e-mail away.
Click here to see her latest success
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Tuesday 7th
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Edit your Personal
Organisers ! the date for
voting and presentation of prizes for the Arthur Redway memorial
competition
has been changed to Tuesday 28th April.
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March
2009
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Tuesday 31st
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Claudette and Richard
were successful in
a short story competition sponsored by At Home Services to mark
national storytelling week - see Successes.
Colin has had two more hymns accepted
by “Worship Live” - click
here to see them.
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Wednesday 11th
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Chris had four
successes in the Basingstoke Festival! - click
here for more details.
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Thursday 5th
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Premiere of Claudette's
short film "First Love" on the internet! Click here
to watch it.
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Tuesday 3rd
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The Arthur Redway Memorial
Competition announced – see Competitions
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February
2009
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Tuesday 24th
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Result of this
year’s One Act Play Competition
The judge for our
annual one-act-play competition was once again Spanish film maker David
Casals-Roma.
See Competitions
for the result!
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Wednesday 18th
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Richard has launched his
reminiscences of a WWII evacuee “Six Spoons of Sugar” in
Australia – see
Successes
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January
2009
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Tuesday 6th
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Congratulations to
Elizabeth – the Romantic Novelists Association has shortlisted “The
Wild Card” for its Romance Prize.
The Romance Prize honours the
most memorable stories set around a single theme that concentrates on the
developing love affair.
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