BILSTON WRITERS
BILSTON WRITERS
CREATIVE WRITING IN THE WEST MIDLANDS
ABOUT US
We are a creative writing group with about 20 members who meet once a month at Bilston Library and on Zoom..
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Membership fees: £20 per year (discounts for people on certain benefits)
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If you're interested in joining, you are welcome to email us for more details and to be added to a waiting list: bilston.writers@gmail.com
MEETINGS
2nd Saturday of the month
Our monthly meetings usually involve some reading, some discussion and some writing. Sometimes there is an opportunity to share what we've written (although sharing is not mandatory!) We have had a go at writing poems for adults and children, flash fiction, short stories and radio plays.
FEEDBACK
B12 & prose critique group
Members of Bilston Writers are invited to join a closed Facebook group ('Bilston Dozen', or B12) with monthly writing prompts, where they can write a poem or a piece of flash fiction on a different theme each month and give and receive feedback. A separate critique group for members who are writing longer stories and novels meets on Zoom every six weeks.
PUBLICATIONS
Group anthologies
Bilston Writers have published five anthologies of members' stories and poems: Bilston Words in 2014, Gifts of Love in 2016, All Things Bright in 2018,
Beginnings in 2020, Only the Skies in 2022 and Bilston Banquet in 2024. Also see our Publications page.