• What happened at our August meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING of 17 August 2017 at STROLLERS  Present: Catherine, Liz, Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Amanda, Heather, Hilary, Ramzan (chair), Alan, Shaun, Simon, Peter (minutes). Apologies: Dermot, Greg Dermot is unwell and in St Peter’s hospital.  We will send him good wishes (post-meeting note, Dermot’s back home). Alan is now checking…

  • What happened at our July meeting – news and readings

    WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 20 JULY 2017 Present: Peter, Hilary, Heather, Alan, Ramzan, Tricia Apologies: Greg, Cathy, Sarah SH, Sarah DD News: Hilary has had a story shortlisted in the National Association of Writers’ Groups (NAWG) competition. She will be attending a gala dinner in September at which the winner will be…

  • What happened at our June meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING, 16 JUNE 2017 Present: Cathy, Liz, Sarah SH, Sarah DD (chair), Amanda, Heather, Ramzan, Alan, Peter (minutes). Apologies: Trish, Dermot, Amanda, Greg News Heather was heard by Hilary and others on Radio 2’s Johnnie Walker show.  Heather read her poem ‘A Carer’s Prayer’ as part of a feature in Carers’…

  • What happened at our May meeting – news and readings

    Minutes of Woking Writers Circle meeting on Thursday 18 May 2017 Present: Liz, Greg, Dermot, Amanda, Ramzan, Peter, Sarah DD, Cathy, Simon, Hilary (chairman) Alan (minutes) Apologies: Sarah SH, Tricia, Heather, Carla News: Greg announced, to great admiration, that he is to take the lead role in Send Amateur Dramatics performance of Goodnight, Mister Tom. See…

  • What happened at our April meeting – news and readings

    WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE’S MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 20 APRIL 2017 Present:   Cathy, Sarah DD, Sarah SH, Amanda, Heather, Hilary, Greg, Dermot, Shaun, Alan, Liz Apologies:  Ramzan, Tricia, Simon, Peter News The Lightbox’s first literary festival will be from Friday 21 to Sunday 23 April. WWC contributions include the Write Out Loud poetry open mic organised…

  • What happened at our March meeting – news and readings

    MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 16 MARCH 2017 Present: Peter, Dermot, Simon, Amanda, Hilary, Liz, Heather, Alan, Jane, Ramzan, Carla, Tricia, Cathy, Sarah DD, Sarah SH Apologies: Greg News: Dermot has seen Shirley Valentine and given it a glowing review. Alan has had a story accepted for Best of British magazine.…

  • What happened at our February meeting – news and readings

    Minutes of meeting of Woking Writers Circle at Strollers on 16 February 2017 Apologies: Dermot. Attendees: Amanda, Peter, Hilary, Sarah DD,  Sarah SH, Greg, Cathy, Alan, Liz, Carla, Jo, Tricia. Also present: Tara Stevenson, arts development officer with Woking council, who came along to see what we get up to. News Alan mentioned that he…

  • MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING AT STROLLERS ON 19 JANUARY 2017

    Present: Peter, Dermot, Hilary, Jo, Liz, Heather, Alan, Jane, Ramzan, Carla, Tricia, Paula Apologies: Greg, Cathy, Sarah SH, Sarah DD News: Dermot has seen Blood Brothers and given it a glowing review. Alan has won a National Association of Writers’ Group prize for a short story of 250 words. The donated book prizes include Hungarian…

  • PETER MORLEY

    Peter Morley is a writer with an interest in social and political history.  He has published one book, Orange Juice and Cod Liver Oil: Memoirs of a Baby Boomer, which illuminates the social history of Britain through the story of ordinary folk making their way through the wars, political changes and social advances of the…

  • CARLA SCARANO D’ANTONIO

    CARLA SCARANO D’ANTONIO writes:  I am an Italian teacher; poet; short story writer; and painter. I moved to England (Lancashire, then Surrey) in 2007 from Rome and started attending creative writing courses. I obtained a degree of Master of Arts in Creative Writing with Merit at Lancaster University in October 2012.  I live in Chobham and…