Wirral Writers Online

What a difference a few months make.  feeling somewhat guilty for not having posted anything recently I though I'd log-on to this site.  Everything had changed and its taken me all morning to suss out the differences to the blog site.  Anyway here I am though for the life of me I can't see what the improvements are. Since the last time I posted some news winter's gone and spring is just changing into summer. At one of the meetings Pat brought some copies of his book he has had printed and kindly gave each of us a copy.  His tales certainly had me chuckling. We had ten entries for the Maynah Lewis Cup which this year was won by Cheryl with her charming story called `Blue Indigo`.   Runner-up was Mike with `The Man with the Pill-box Hat. Barbara and Helen had also been short-listed.  Once again the variety of the stories was astonishing considering everyone had to incorporate the same list of words. Our judge this year was Juilet Greenw...

If anyone fancies popping over to the excellent online magazine,  newmyths.com  my story, Dead Man's Shoes is now up there and just itching to be read. This was one that I tested out on the good people of Wirral Writers Club and I thank you all for your useful and encouraging feedback.  There are no spaceships in this one. No aliens, no robots - just saxophones, some cool jazz... and shoes. 

Hi everyone, Just to remind you that our next meeting is on Friday 2nd March. Last month saw another two interesting meetings with a wide variety of writings. also it was decided that the club would not this time take part in the Wine and Reading Evening run by the Friends of the Library as it clashed with our own club nights. and in part because this was the second time the date had been changed. March already so not many weeks to get your competition writing done, please refer to January post for details of competition. don't forget double line spacing and don't use your own name. entry cost £1 Gordon read one of his poems at the last meeting and he has agreed for it to be put up on the blog. we all thought it summed us up quite nicely. Wirral Writers Club (A pantoum or something like one) WE meet together on a Friday night A group of cheerful scribblers all Who bring their words, profound or slight ...

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.