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Oct 201 min read
New anthology: Bilston Banquet
Our latest anthology is here! Bilston Banquet: A Feast of Words is Bilston Writers' sixth anthology. It contains lots about food and...
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Oct 201 min read
August-October
Over the past three months we have been to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, written prose poems about falling and flying and explored hybrid...
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Jul 141 min read
April-July
In the past four months, Bilston Writers have met in once in person and three times on Zoom: April: Migration with Marion Cockin May:...
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Mar 171 min read
Prompts and More Prompts with Ros Woolner
by Ros Woolner Our March workshop was a chance to try out different types of prompts. There were books, including 5,000 Writing Prompts...
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Mar 171 min read
The Bilston Banquet: Writing about food with Jane Seabourne
by Ros Woolner From Roman banquets to sausages & double mash, and faggot casserole with a glass of rioja, our February workshop really...
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Feb 11 min read
Bilston Writers at Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Members of Bilston Writers will be reading short stories and poems at the Writers' Hub on Sunday 4th February 2024 from 4 pm to 5 pm. We...
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Feb 11 min read
January
Thanks to Carol's super planning, we managed to fit in an AGM, a short practice for our slot at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival and...
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Dec 10, 20231 min read
Winter is Coming with Marion Cockin
by Ros Woolner Our December meeting was full of wintry words, stories and mince pies. We wrote about preparations for Christmas, we wrote...
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Dec 8, 20231 min read
Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales with Liz Parkes
by Ros Woolner Liz Parkes led our November workshop and brought along some wonderful examples of writing inspired by Greek myths...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
Urban Poetry with Nick Pearson
By Ros Woolner What makes a poem urban? Nick brought some fabulous poems to our October workshop for us to look at: 'Friday night in the...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
The Power of Repetition with Emma Purshouse
By Ros Woolner September's workshop was all about the power of repetition, one of poetry's building blocks. We tackled list poems, which...
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bilstonwriters
Oct 18, 20231 min read
Writing in Bantock Park with Ros Woolner
By Ros Woolner Last year, the second Saturday in August was one of the hottest days of the year. This year, we were in coats and were...
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Jul 22, 20232 min read
Writing Portraits with Carol Howarth
by Carol Howarth Carol Howarth presented the session on Portraits - Poetry (or prose) describing oneself or someone else through concrete...
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Jun 18, 20231 min read
Fan Fiction with Karen Miller
by Ros Woolner Our June workshop was about using fan fiction – fictional writing based on an existing work of fiction – to jump-start our...
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May 15, 20231 min read
Writing poems about birds with Simon Fletcher and Kuli Kohli
by Carol Howarth Simon Fletcher, poet and manager of Offa's Press and Kuli Kohli, Poet Laureate of Wolverhampton, presented a session...
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Apr 23, 20232 min read
Memoir Writing with Louise Palfreyman
by Ros Woolner ‘We are all walking histories’, Louise tells us. So you could almost say we have a duty to write about our lives. Louise...
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Mar 17, 20232 min read
Collaborative Writing with Roger Noons
by Ros Woolner Earlier this month, Roger Noons led a very enjoyable workshop on collaborative writing. As he pointed out at the start of...
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Feb 12, 20231 min read
Writing Humour with Naomi Paul
by John Ellard Naomi Paul led our February workshop on Writing Humour, following her successful Zoom visit to us last October. The ...
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Feb 9, 20232 min read
Competition success
Carol Howarth, Chair of Bilston Writers, has won the WV Postcode Prize in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Competition 2023...
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Feb 9, 20231 min read
Bilston Writers at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Bilston Writers took part in the Writers' Hub on 5th February. Run by Poets Prattlers & Pandemonialists as part of the literature...
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