This is the online home of Wirral Writers. It is a members-only forum for the sharing of ideas, markets, competitions and words. Wirral Writers meet at 7.15pm at The Bridge Inn, Bolton Road, Port Sunlight, on the first and third Friday of each month. New members are always welcome. Contact chrisa.black@talktalk.net for more details.
The 2023 club competition named after our founder, Maynah Lewis, was based around historical fiction. Those who took part, were tasked with creating a story based in a decade provided by one of the other members.
This is because this year’s judge, John Donaghue, is a historical fiction novelist.
If you listen to podcasts, this is a good one….
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction
A writer reads a favourite story by another writer, then discusses why it works. Great stuff.
My novel about musical life on the road in the 1980s is on free download for a week at Amazon, if you fancy it for a Christmas read. It follows the fortunes of keyboard player Jonnie Cole as his band tour Europe over Christmas 1985.
A tale of sex, drugs and synthesisers, it is not for the prudish!!
You may not have heard of NaNoWriMo – It’s a website that attempts to help writers get their novel done and in the bag. It’s quite good as it provides the motivation to keep the word count rising towards your completed targets.
This is a little reminder that I’ve got two nights of plays on at 81 Renshaw Street in Liverpool next week. Here’s the programme. It starts at 7:30 for both evenings. £6 for one night or £9 for both.
Liz xx
I signed up for the Early Bird Option for the London Screenwriters Festival. This year it starts 2nd September 2016. Right at the start of the school year. If my sabbatical dream comes true then this is the perfect kick start.
Through the cyber jungle I struggle and fall.
Each time I click I meet a brick wall.
Exhausted with frustration once again I begin.
Shall I persevere or just give in?
At last I find my writer’s home,
And a space to call my own.
Look out for Juniper now and again.
Will he make you laugh or cry or just be a pain?
Though there’s many a slip ‘twixt lip and cup;
He hopes to continue and not give up.
Just to let you all know that the programme we recorded for Vintage Radio will be on the Web next Saturday 11th May.
Hi everyone, this is just to let you all know that the Wine and Reading evening held at Bebington Library to raise funds for the library was well attended.
Friday 17th August meeting was one of our most lively meetings for a while. And it arose when we were discussing some of the comments made by our guest speaker Juliet Greenwood at the Sunday Lunch a couple of weeks ago.
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