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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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MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING, ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 15th of AUGUST 2024
Present: Keith, Tricia, Alan, Heather, Simona, Hillary, Liz, Nathan, Harry, Sarah Apologies: Peter INTRODUCTIONS: We welcomed our guest, Harry, with warm introductions and hope that he will continue to join us. Harry likes to write horror poetry, poems that make you feel uncomfortable, sometimes cosmic but in general quite modern. NEWS Alan’s short story ‘Temporary… →
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The Vanity of Small Differences – At The Lightbox, Woking until 7th July 2024
Grayson Perry’s Tapestries Grayson Perry’s large and vibrant tapestries are currently on display in Surrey at The Lightbox, Woking, flooding the main gallery with colour. The six tapestries, each measuring 2m by 4m, tell the story of Tim Rakewell as he embarks on a journey of twenty-first century social mobility. A familiar story? Indeed. Tim… →
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Heather Cook is joint winner of poetry pamphlet publication competition
Woking Writers Circle member Heather Cook, who is also a regular reader with Write Out Loud Woking at the Lightbox, and Write Out Loud Woking on Zoom, has been named joint winner with Clare Starling of a pamphlet publication competition. Her pamphlet will be published later this year after she won a Frosted Fire First… →
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Greg Freeman’s new poetry collection ‘The Fall of Singapore’
Publishers Dempsey & Windle will be launching WWC member Greg Freeman’s new poetry collection ‘The Fall of Singapore’ online on Wednesday 30 March. It has been published to mark last month’s 80th anniversary of the biggest surrender in British military history. Greg said: “My father was one of many thousands of Allied soldiers taken prisoner… →
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Woking church collecting donations to aid Ukraine’s war refugees
There are many relief organisations that you can give money to aid Ukrainian refugees fleeing the invasion by Vladimir Putin. But Woking Writers Circle would like to publicise the fact that the church where we meet each month – St Mary’s the Virgin, Horsell – is open from Monday-Friday 10am-5pm to drop off donations for… →
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‘Marples Must Go!’ is WWC member Greg Freeman’s first full poetry collection
Woking Writers Circle member Greg Freeman has brought out his first full poetry collection. Marples Must Go! is already available from Guildford publisher Dempsey & Windle, under their Vole Books imprint, although the official publication date is 1 September. Greg said: “I always hoped to have published a full poetry collection by the time I turned… →
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Carla Scarano D’Antonio launches ‘Negotiating Caponata’ poetry collection
“Food is so important in Italy for our identity. It shapes our relationships. And it is also a way to renew them.” With these words Woking Writers Circle member Carla Scarano D’Antonio introduced the launch of her short poetry collection, Negotiating Caponata, on Zoom – an occasion attended by dozens of friends, family and poets,… →
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Greg Freeman’s poem published in The New European newspaper
Woking Writers Circle member Greg Freeman has had a poem published in the April 23 edition of The New European newspaper. Titled ‘The Morning After’, Greg began writing it the day after the 2019 general election, which found him and his wife Gillian visiting their family in Marbella. Greg said: “We had listened to the… →
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Memories of Dermot … WWC members pay fond tributes to long-serving former secretary
Members of Woking Writers Circle were saddened to hear the news just before Christmas that their long-serving and very popular former secretary, Dermot Hoare, had died at the age of 88. Dermot had been in a nursing home in Sunninghill for 18 months. Dermot joined Woking Writers Circle around 15 years ago, and his firm,… →
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