Dear Writers and Readers
Summer’s sort of over. September’s here. As one season ends, another begins.
And Artswords kicks off with these offerings.
Mum’s the Word, a friendly, informal group for mothers interested in writing meets on Tuesday 6th September at 7.30pm at Lower Shaw Farm. Don’t worry if you haven’t had a chance to write anything, yet. The group will help you get started, if you want it to. For further information, please contact Monica at montimms@waitrose.com
The Artswords Reading Group meets at 7.30pm Tuesday 13th September to discuss A Start in Life by Anita Brookner. How does being lost in good books compare with having good relationships? What does literature do for life: make it or ruin it?
Further details about the group from matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk
For other reading groups, run by Swindon Libraries, see http://www.swindon.gov.uk/info/20057/books_and_reading_services/288/join_a_reading_group
An Artswords Writing Group, with Jill Sharp, will offer prompts and activities to stimulate fresh ideas and approaches to your writing, and tone the writing muscles in time for NaNoWriMo in November, meets at the Richard Jefferies Museum for 5 weekly sessions beginning 10.30 am Tuesday 13th September. Other sessions on 20thSept, and 4th, 11th, 18th Oct. To find out more or to book your place in this friendly and enthusiastic group, contact jill@sharppractice.wanadoo.co.uk
Artswords Writers' Café & Kitchen, a meeting place for new writers, experienced writers, and anyone interested in writing, takes place on Thursday 29th September at Lower Shaw Farm. Starting at 7pm and finishing at 10pm, it is a reflective and, whisper it, a slightly rebellious writers’ group! The emphasis is on feeding back on people’s writing, rather than focusing on the ‘rules’. If you’d like your work to be the subject of helpful comments and discussion, please email said piece to artswordsinfo@gmail.com by Thursday 22nd September, so that group members can read and reflect in advance of meeting. This should amount to no more than 500 words of prose or 40 lines of poetry. Please also bring a little food to share, if you would like to.
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If you have any news or events for October and you would like us to mention them in the next Artswords Newsletter, please let us know by the middle of this month by emailing matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk or calling 01793 771080
Happy reading and writing!
Matt Holland & Annie Vickers
SWINDON ARTSWORDS LOVE LITERATURE! LOVE LIFE!
