Our latest anthology is here! Bilston Banquet: A Feast of Words is Bilston Writers' sixth anthology. It contains lots about food and...

Over the past three months we have been to Wolverhampton Art Gallery, written prose poems about falling and flying and explored hybrid...

In the past four months, Bilston Writers have met in once in person and three times on Zoom: April: Migration with Marion Cockin May:...

by Ros Woolner Our March workshop was a chance to try out different types of prompts. There were books, including 5,000 Writing Prompts...

by Ros Woolner From Roman banquets to sausages & double mash, and faggot casserole with a glass of rioja, our February workshop really...

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...

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...

by Ros Woolner Our December meeting was full of wintry words, stories and mince pies. We wrote about preparations for Christmas, we wrote...

by Ros Woolner Liz Parkes led our November workshop and brought along some wonderful examples of writing inspired by Greek myths...

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...

By Ros Woolner September's workshop was all about the power of repetition, one of poetry's building blocks. We tackled list poems, which...

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...

by Carol Howarth Carol Howarth presented the session on Portraits - Poetry (or prose) describing oneself or someone else through concrete...

by Ros Woolner Our June workshop was about using fan fiction – fictional writing based on an existing work of fiction – to jump-start our...

by Carol Howarth Simon Fletcher, poet and manager of Offa's Press and Kuli Kohli, Poet Laureate of Wolverhampton, presented a session...

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...

by Ros Woolner Earlier this month, Roger Noons led a very enjoyable workshop on collaborative writing. As he pointed out at the start of...

by John Ellard Naomi Paul led our February workshop on Writing Humour, following her successful Zoom visit to us last October. The ...

Carol Howarth, Chair of Bilston Writers, has won the WV Postcode Prize in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Competition 2023...

Bilston Writers took part in the Writers' Hub on 5th February. Run by Poets Prattlers & Pandemonialists as part of the literature...