• What happened at our June meeting: news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING of 21 June 2017 at the Baden Powell Centre, Goldsworth Park   Present: Catherine, Liz, Amanda (chair), Heather, Carla, Danny, Tricia, Hilary, Alan, Peter, Peter (minutes). Apologies: Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Greg News Carla gave apologies in advance as she will not attend in July and August.  Greg will…

  • What happened at our May meeting: news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING ON 17 MAY 2018   Apologies: Hilary, Sarah SH, Cathy, Heather Present: Carla, Shaun, Sarah DD, Amanda, Peter, Simon, Alan, Greg, Tricia, Liz, Danny.   News Book group:  Liz explained that the reading group met a guy who went to school with Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of The Remains…

  • What happened at our April meeting – news and readings

    MEETING OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE ON 19 APRIL 2018 AT THE BADEN POWELL ROOM, THE GENERATION CENTRE, GOLDSWORTH PARK, WOKING Apologies : Heather, Greg Attending: Liz, Peter, Hillary, Alan, Amanda, Catherine, Tricia, Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Carla, Peter. News: Liz said that at the Rhoda McGaw theatre there will be a play [note by CR…

  • What happened at our March meeting: news and readings

    Minutes of meeting on Thursday 15th March 2018 Present: Heather (chairman), Alan (minutes), Shane, Peter, Liz, Tricia, Cathy, Amanda, Simon, Sarah DD, Sara SH, Apologies: Hilary, Greg News: Liz reported the death of the famous poet Jenny Joseph, mentioning Jenny’s fascination with the concept of different art forms “melding together.” A production of Leviathan, James Wilton Dance’s…

  • What happened at our February meeting – news and readings

    WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MINUTES OF MEETING AT GENERATION CENTRE, FEBRUARY 2018 Present: Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Liz, Peter, Greg, Alan, Tricia, Shane. Apologies: Heather, Hilary, Cathy, Ramzan, Dermot.   News Greg as outgoing treasurer listed those who have so far paid their 2017-18 subs: Tricia, Greg, Alan, Sarah DD, Sarah SH, Liz, Heather, Hilary, Ramzan,…

  • What happened at our January meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING AT THE GENERATION CENTRE, GOLDSWORTH PARK CENTRE,  ON 18 JANUARY 2018 Present: Peter, Greg, Amanda, Cathy, Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Liz, Heather Apologies: Dermot, Alan, Ramzan, Tricia News: The second Lightbox literary festival will take place over the weekend of 27-29 April, and another “poetry lunch” on Saturday 28…

  • What happened at our December meeting – news and readings

    MEETING OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE AT STROLLERS, 21 DECEMBER 2017 Present: Tricia, Heather, Liz, Alan, Cathy, Hilary, Greg. Apologies: Sarah DD, Sarah SH, Dermot, Peter. News: Alan reported that his article about childhood memories of winter rail chaos, Snow, Farce and Fireworks, was published in the December issue of Best of British. Also published was…

  • What happened at our November meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 16 NOVEMBER 2017 Present: Peter, Greg, Hilary, Heather, Ramzan, Tricia, Sarah SH, Apologies: Dermot, Sarah DD, Alan, Amanda, Shaun, Carla News: The next Write Out Loud Woking poetry night is on Monday 18 December, at the New Inn, Send, from 7.30pm Greg is also taking to…

  • What happened at our October meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 19 OCTOBER 2017 Present: Greg, Hilary, Heather, Alan, Ramzan, Tricia, Liz, Carla, Sarah DD, Cathy Apologies: Peter, Dermot, Sarah SH News: Alan has contacted Tara Stevenson, Woking council’s arts development officer, about his First World War story featuring the Pyrford Stone to see if there would be…

  • What happened at our September meeting – news and readings

    Woking Writers Circle meeting at Strollers on Thursday 21 September 2017   Present: Tricia, Heather, Shaun, Liz, Peter, Alan, Ramzan, Carla. Apologies: Hilary, Greg, Cathy, Sarah DD, Sarah SH, Dermot.   News The centenary of the first world war is being marked in Surrey with a community literature project called Learning to Fly , with…