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Hi Everyone, Just an update regarding the Maynah Lewis Competition theme. At the last meeting a decision was made to use the same format as last year. However instead of choosing from lists Cheryl had brought a set of 9 dice with symbols or pictures on each face. These were thrown three times and each set noted down. We then voted on which set we preferred and the winning combination is as follows. Hand, mobile phone, wigwam, arrow, tree, new moon, footprint, aeroplane, a theatre Comedy/tragedy mask. Now all you have to do is create a story of 1600 words using them. The closing date for the competition will be the second meeting in May. This competition is only open to club members. Full comp rules will be emailed out shortly. Next meeting 3rd February hope you can make it. cheers chris

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year. Mine was like most people's hectic with visitors and visiting. Lovely catching up with far flung family. Now back to normal whatever that is supposed to be. This Friday 6th January sees our first meeting of 2012. Hope you can all come along to contribute to selecting a theme for the Maynah Lewis May Competition. It looks like Cheryl has secured us a judge for this year's competition but she will tell us all about it on Friday. Just had a thought that because it's both the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics this year we should have a mini competition this summer. What do you think? Let us know either on this site or at the meeting if you can attend. Chris

Great Party last night - one of the best Wirral Writers' do's I can remember. The highlight has to be Alan on his mandolin, brilliant! If I'd have thought on I'd have recorded the gig and put it on You Tube. Next year, maybe. I have some sales news - my story 'Thousand War Soldier' is now up at  Ray Gun Revival  . Thanks to everyone for your input on this one, it seems to have paid off. Why not pop over the website and see how the final edit looks. And if you're in the mood for some genre fiction next weekend (Sat 10th December) I'll be at  Parallel Dimensions  in West Kirby, doing some reading and chatting. Also Jon Mayhew will be there, so please come along and say hello.

New calendar is now posted in the side bar. I'm afraid I've been a little lax about updating this but now we're all set for 2012. Highlights for the coming year: Christmas Party next meeting on 2nd December. Bring a raffle prize, some food and a Christmas Story (about 500 words) Friends and family also welcome. 18th May is the entry date for the Maynah Lewis competition. Details of next year's theme will be posted as soon as we've agreed one. The winter competition will take place on 16th September and the AGM is on 21st October.

Hi, this is a PS to the last post. Claire Oxley who judged our Short Story Competition sent her thanks for the gifts we gave her. She also gave us some information of forcoming events at the library. In conjunction with the `Friends of the Library the following will be held there. Macmillian Coffee morning Friday 30th Sept 10.30-12noon. Poetry Workshop with Judy Ugonna and Gill McEvoy Saturday 1st October 11am-1pm (Places must be booked in advance and cost £7 phone Claire -Di on 643 7219) Also look at Poem Catchers on www.poemcatchers.com for other workshops etc A talk by Elizabeth Williams entitled `Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Love` will be held on Thursday 13th October 2.30pm cost £3 A talk by Anthony Peake author entitled `J.B. Priestly:The Time Plays` will be held on Saturday 29th October at 2.30pm cost £3 ( If you don't know about this author look at www.anthonypeake.com) Chick-lit Authors Ledley Pearse and Judy Astley will be at Bromborough Civic Centre on Monday 10t...

Hi Everyone, For those of you who could not make the meeting on Friday, you missed another interesting evening. The September Competition was held and once again the entries proved to be a wonderful mixed bag of goodies. Members were asked to write a monologue subject matter open. From Gordon's account of using `BABS` on a training sortie when in the RAF to Frank's dark thoughts of a suicidal band player, each piece had much merit. Perhaps Tom's clever re-vamp of the Three Little Pigs would have grabbed your attention. Ann's reflective piece was sad and moving. Whilst Helen's Bride's thoughts made you smile. Barbara's hapless accident prone heroine was also very funny. Liz's character was instantly recognisable we've all met some-one like the `queen` And then on to Alan's lyrical thoughts about a new-born grandchild and the passing on of knowledge and culture through the generations. Alan's `Life's Conveyer Belt` won 1st place Li...

I have a story sale to announce this week. "Call Me Murph" sold to Short-Story.Me and is now online. Check out their web-site if you get a chance, it's a good market and they take a wide variety of story types. Short-Story.me I read the story at Wirral Writers a couple of months back, so thanks to everyone for your comments and feedback, much of which went into the final draft. Just goes to show how valuable and powerful is the hive-mind of Wirral Writers. (If you're not a member, think about joining us. Feedback works.) Mike Wood