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MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING AT ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 18th SEPTEMBER 2025
Present: Simona, Liz, Sarah, Tricia, Keith, Dave, Nathan, Harry, Heather Apologies: Alan, Cathy, Natasha, Adi (Keith had sent apologies for the August meeting, but these were omitted in error) NEWS: Harry had enjoyed another competition success and was warmly congratulated. (Details to follow.) Liz had heard from the Woking News and Mail editor that he… →
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MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 15th OF MAY 2025
APOLOGIES: Sarah (DD) Simona, Alan PRESENT: Tricia, Liz, Nathan, Keith, Cathy NEWS: READINGS Nathan: read a beautiful poem entitled Music makes me reminisce. Liz really liked the beautiful timed words of affirmation, the last series of lines was cleverly done, the musical terminology linked well with the theme of reminiscence. A well-crafted piece full of lovely imagery. Nathan… →
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MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 17th OF APRIL 2025
PRESENT: Simona, Liz, Alan, Nathan, Cathy, Harry, Heather APOLOGIES: Tricia, Sarah, Hilary NEWS: WRITING COMPETITIONS: It was agreed that for a period of 3 months, the Minutes would include a section on current writing competitions, to see whether WWC members found this useful. No attempt would be made to provide a comprehensive list, or to… →
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Mouse Time
By Heather Cook Please join us in celebrating our dear Writers Circle member, Heather, and her winning 2nd prize in this year’s Arundel Literary Festival Poetry Competition with Mouse Time: My year is not your year. I know no clocks, alarms, appointments; I do not measure time, imposing order so that I might live forever.… →
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On The Edge
Nathan, the youngest member of our Writers Circle, is a poet whose work lingers long after the final word has been read. Having honed his craft for many years, his poetry, while yet to be formally published, shows the kind of promise that suggests a literary breakthrough is imminent. His writing is unflinching, often exploring… →
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MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 20th JUNE 2024
Present: Keith, Liz, Alan, Nathan, Simona, Olivia, Heather Apologies: Sarah, Trisha, Peter, Hilary Welcome: Olivia News Liz has published a book of Haikus and has been attending various venues where she has sold a number of copies. Liz has returned from a greatly enjoyed trip to Newcastle and also caught up with Greg Freeman,… →
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Heather Cook’s longlisted ‘The Swarm’ in the Wildfire Words: Every Breath competition, Autumn 2022
Not long ago, our very own Heather Cook graciously announced that her poem had been longlisted in the Wildfire Words: Every Breath competition and we were excited to read it and hear Heather perform it. We think the work deserves a much wider audience and hope that it may enchant you as much as it… →
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Happy holidays from Woking Writers Circle!
Our August meeting, as is the tradition, was a social evening, with plenty of food and some drink. But we still managed to find the time to share some fine writing. Here is the first of these, a poem by Heather Cook extolling the pleasures of a stay-at-home Bank Holiday: BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY by Heather… →
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‘Alternative Happiness’: puppet version of Beowulf, handfasting and mead at pagan wedding
by Hilary Hughes There aren’t many occasions when I feel that my hair is too low-key but last week at a pagan wedding I was totally outclassed: purple and pink were the norm, with garlands of flowers, several guests had green hair, there was one amazing do in three shades of blue and the bridegroom’s… →
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Cats with fewer than nine lives … or how Liz Lennie got a disappointing reply from Enid Blyton
Woking Writers Circle member Liz Lennie’s current creative interest is in ‘life writing’. She recently discovered a rather dismissive postcard reply from Enid Blyton’s assistant, who also gets Liz’s surname wrong, after she had written to the popular children’s author from boarding school in the 1950s. Here she re-imagines her original letter, which also contains… →
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