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Liz Lennie returns to Camberley festival with new play script reading
WWC member Liz Lennie is appearing at Camberley International festival for the second year running with another play script reading. On Saturday 23 June at Camberley theatre’s upstairs studio in Knoll Road, from 7:30 – 9:30pm, Liz’s play Tinkler! will be scriptread in small groups and then staged as a radio performance. The play is about… →
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Alan Dale’s on the right track with two new successes; and he’s launched a website
Woking Writers Circle member Alan Dale has had two publishing successes in recent months. An article titled Snow, Farce & Fireworks, was published in the December 2017 issue of the nostalgia and heritage magazine Best of British, below, while an article about road-rail vehicles appeared in the Railway magazine, in its February 2018 issue. In… →
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Short story by Hilary Hughes wins national writers’ competition
Woking Writers Circle member Hilary Hughes has won the 2017 National Association of Writers’ Groups (NAWG) David Lodge prize for her short story ‘Mr Friend, The Enemy’. She was presented with her prize by Downton Abbey’s creator Julian Fellowes at NAWG’s festival at the University of Warwick. Hilary’s winning story is about the runaway thoughts… →
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Keeping the flame alive: Wells in Woking group plan more events in 2017
Last year Woking celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of HG Wells, the author who put the town on the map – or rather, wiped the town off it – with his novel The War of the Worlds, which described how an invading force of Martians landed in a sandpit on Horsell common –… →
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Prize-winning translations are published in Edinburgh
Prize-winning translations by Woking Writers Circle member Carla Scarano D’Antonio and Keith Lander of Selected Poems by Nobel prize-winner Eugenio Montale, pictured, have been published in Edinburgh University Press’s Comparative Critical Studies. Last year the translations by Carla and Keith were awarded first prize in the John Dryden translation competition. Carla and Keith are… →
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Anthology touring Surrey that includes poems by WWC members pops up in Woking
Woking Writers Circle members Peter Morley and Heather Cook have poems published in a competition anthology produced by Surrey Libraries that is currently touring the county. In the summer of 2016, Surrey Libraries worked in partnership with Hurtwood Press and the Bluehouse Festival to host a competition, the winners of which would appear in a… →
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Nice little earner: magazine rewards Alan Dale’s mini-review
Can writing pay? Well, up to a point, Lord Copper.* Woking Writers Circle member Alan Dale was happy to report at our May meeting that he had received £10 for a recent letter he had had published in What’s On TV praising the BBC’s dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novel Decline and Fall. Alan’s letter… →
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In Conversation with Nicola May
Last weekend saw the first ever Lightbox literary festival at the Lightbox gallery in Woking. The Lightbox is celebrating its 10th anniversary and while it doesn’t seem like 10 years ago that the award-winning building appeared on the canal side, it’s hard to imagine the town without it. I was asked to lead the questions to… →
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Heather Cook’s ‘A Carer’s Prayer’ – a poem that was aired on Radio 2
Woking Writers Circle member Heather Cook was invited to read a special poem this month. She read her ‘The Carer’s Prayer’ at the Carers UK Celebration evening on 1 February – a poem that had previously been aired on Radio 2. Heather explains: “I entered ‘The Carer’s Prayer’ for the first ever Carers UK Creative… →
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Support community arts in Woking by backing the Phoenix Cultural Centre’s crowdfunder appeal
A number of Woking Writers Circle members have strong links with the Phoenix Cultural Centre, which has moved much closer to its long-standing aim of creating a permanent live music and community arts venue in Woking. The Phoenix is relocating from its original base at a former shop in Goldsworth Road, where it has staged… →
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