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What happened at our June meeting
MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING 20 June 2019 at St Mary’s church Hall, Horsell Present: Tricia, Amanda, Greg, Simon, Sarah DD, Alan, Carla, Hilary, Peter G. Apologies: Catherine, Liz, Peter DPM, Heather. We are back to meeting on the third Thursday and do not plan to change this in the foreseeable future. This was a super meeting; we seem to be consistently sharing interesting writing of a high standard and good variety. We heard essay, play, poetry and prose philosophical, nostalgic, humorous, dramatic, some hard-edged and tense, some light and whimsical, one lightly polemic. Readings The theme set last…
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What happened at our May meeting – news and readings
MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING AT ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 23 MAY 2019 Present: Peter Morley, Amanda, Alan, Liz, Simon, Greg, Carla, Tricia, Hilary, Heather Apologies: Sarah DD, Cathy, Dan News Greg reported that the Woking literary festival open-mic poetry event at The Lightbox on Saturday 27 April had been well supported with lots of participants, including Amanda and Heather. The regular monthly open-mic meeting will now take place on the last Thursday of the month at 8pm in the cafe at the Lightbox. Greg also circulated a flyer advertising the next SADS production, Neighbourhood Watch, by…
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What happened at our April meeting – news and readings
MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING ON THURSDAY 25 APRIL 2019 Present: Heather, Simon, Tricia (chair), Peter Morley, Peter Murphy, Alan (minutes), Greg, Carla, Amanda, Liz, Cathy Apologies: Hilary, Sarah DD News Greg mentioned the Poetry Day open mic, which formed part of the Woking literary festival at the Lightbox on April 27. The open mic ran from 11am to 4pm, and included appearances by two performance poets, one established and one up and coming. WWC members Heather Cook and Amanda Briggs turned up on the day and read at the open mic. Liz noted that the Book Group had read The…
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What happened at our February meeting – news and readings
MINUTES OF WOKING WRITERS’ CIRCLE MEETING AT ST MARY’S CHURCH HALL, HORSELL ON 28 FEBRUARY 2019 Present: Peter Morley, Amanda, Alan, Liz, Simon, Greg, Cathy, Peter Murphy, Carla, Tricia, Daniel, Hilary, Heather Apologies: Sarah DD News: Hilary advised that WWC now has internet banking facilities. Details: Lloyds Bank. Account Name: Woking Writers Circle Sort Code: 30-99-80 A/C no: 00223011 Liz reported that the next meeting of the Book Club would take place on 1 April and attendees would be discussing ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’. Alan had responded to an online challenge to write a story in 81 words.…
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What happened at our January meeting – news and readings
WOKING WRITERS CIRCLE MEETING ON THURSDAY JANUARY 24 2019 Present: Liz, Alan, Hilary, Amanda, Simon, Carla, Heather, Peter, Greg, Daniel. Plus Cathy (late arrival). Apologies: Tricia, Sarah SH, Sarah DD, Peter Murphy. NEWS 1) Greg reported that his open-mic poetry night, Write Out Loud Woking, would be switching to the fourth Thursday in the month at the Lightbox from May – another looming fixture clash with Woking Writers Circle. Amanda said she would look into the possibility of the circle switching back to the third Thursday of the month, to avoid members like Greg and Carla attempting to be…
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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 the boards once again, this time with various roles and many costume changes, in ‘Robin Hood’ at the Lancaster Hall, Send, opening on 1 December. Readings Tricia read her poem, ‘The Bamboo Curtain’ which was the homework subject. This was a clever, powerful and very…
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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 workshops where people can access to archive material to write something based around this. Peter said that he suggested that WWC members might be able to write something without the need to attend the workshops. He is inquiring into this and will keep us updated…
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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. The story is about chaos on the railways due to snow, so will probably feature at a more appropriate time of year. Readings: Ramzan – The Extreme Side of Insanity: This was another night driving story where the narrator receives a phone call that threatens to…
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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 had been shortlisted in a recent Writing magazine adventure short story competition. Plus two recent publishing successes: an article that he brought to the last meeting , “Ave A Shot & Risk It”, for Best of British, about the old Aldershot & District bus company,…
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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 last hundred years or so. After a poor but idyllic childhood in the New Forest he drew early lessons on the social order from teenage years passed as poacher, apprentice, motorcyclist and rower. Nourished and educated by the welfare state, he eventually progressed to have…
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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 teach as a tutor in the Surrey area. I won first prize with Keith Lander in the John Dryden Translation Competition 2016 for translation of some poems by Eugenio Montale. I also contribute as an editor at large to The Blue Nib magazine and as…
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GREG FREEMAN
GREG FREEMAN is a former newspaper sub-editor, and now the news and reviews editor for the Write Out Loud poetry website. His first full collection, Marples Must Go!, and a pamphlet collection, ‘The Fall of Singapore’, are available to UK buyers from Guildford poetry publishers Dempsey & Windle, and from the author for overseas buyers (email gregfreem62@gmail.com). His debut pamphlet collection, Trainspotters, was launched in the pub at King’s Cross station, and was published by Indigo Dreams in 2015. In 2018 he read two of his poems at a Richmond literature festival event of poetry and music to commemorate the…