In April Simon Fletcher and Cherry Doyle ran a workshop for us on Zoom. Offa’s Press has been encouraging people to write poems about...

By Ros Woolner Our March workshop was led by Jane Seabourne, a widely published poet, experienced workshop leader and long-time friend of...

by Jill Tromans At February’s meeting of Bilston Writers, we enjoyed a workshop presented by Michael W. Thomas. The fact we are still on...

We'll be performing poems and short stories on Zoom as part of the Writers' Hub during the literature festival on Sunday 14th February at...

by Carol Howarth The November session was to stimulate writing about Winter; either poetry or prose. Marion presented several paintings...

by Carol Howarth Haibun is the mixture of Prose and Poetry (Haiku). 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho combined prose with Haiku,...

In September we tried our hands at ekphrastic poetry and syllabic verse in a workshop let by Emma Purshouse. During lockdown, Emma wrote...

In August we had a sonnet workshop (on Zoom) led by Paul Francis. Paul is a prize-winning and prolific writer of sonnets who often finds...

A collaborative piece inspired by Mandy Ross's workshop on seeds:

Mandy Ross (www.mandyross.co.uk) led our July workshop. She had asked us to bring along a piece of fruit and some tree seeds. There were...

In June we had our second Zoom workshop, with Keith in charge of pushing buttons again. David started by getting us each to think of a...

In May, we moved online and met on Zoom for a session on crime writing. Keith gave us a planning sheet to help us think about the various...

The last time the Bilston Writers group met before the lockdown was in February for the AGM. After the AGM, Karen gave an introduction to...

Bilston Writers will be reading their poems and short stories at the Lych Gate Tavern during the Wolverhampton Literature Festival. When:...

In January, Keith Rogers led a discussion on performance skills. We thought about how to prepare to read our work in public, how to own...

Just before Christmas we were treated to a PaperVerse workshop run by Marion Cockin and Jeff Phelps. We wrote short list poems on the...

At the meeting on 16 November, 15 members enjoyed a lively session led by Wolverhampton’s Poet Laureate, Emma Purshouse. The subject was...

At October’s meeting of Bilston Writers’, we were introduced to NaNoWriMo [National Novel Writing Month] by Karen. Her workshop was...

Our September session was on plot. Keith Rogers guided us through an exercise where we were given a random object and had to write down...

The August session was on the theme of 'birds'. It was led by Karen and attended by Ros, Roger, Fraser, Jackie, Cecilia, Anne, and Steve....