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Roger Noons
Jul 29, 20191 min read
Inspiration with David Bingham
At the July meeting, David Bingham led on INSPIRATION. He encouraged members to compile a list of prompts which could be referred to when...
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Ros Woolner
Jul 13, 20191 min read
Sounds
Our June session was led by Karen on the theme of ‘sounds’. ‘Sounds’ was also the June prompt for Bilston Dozen (our poem-a-month...
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Ros Woolner
Jun 3, 20191 min read
Family & memoir with Mandy Ross
Our May session was led by Birmingham-based writer Mandy Ross on the theme of family and memoir. From free writing about ‘hair’, ‘tea’...
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Ros Woolner
Mar 24, 20191 min read
Contemporary poetry
At our March session, Carol Howarth led a session on contemporary poetry, using some ideas from the Mslexia primer on writing...
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Karen Miller
Feb 17, 20192 min read
Beginnings
This month Marion headed a workshop on beginnings, the Bilston Dozen prompt for February/March. It was a short session as our AGM ran on...
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Ros Woolner
Feb 12, 20192 min read
Bilston Dozen
Our January session was on Bilston Dozen, led by Keith and Karen. Bilston Dozen, our poem-a-month project, has been running since January...
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Ros Woolner
Jan 30, 20191 min read
Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Bilston Writers will be reading from their latest anthology 'All Things Bright' as part of the WOLF Writers' Hub on Sunday 3rd February...
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Anne Babbs
Dec 17, 20183 min read
Performing monologues
This Saturday saw a continuation of the subject of monologues that we began last month and was again run by Emma Purshouse. Everyone who...
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Roger Noons
Nov 19, 20182 min read
Monologues with Emma Purshouse
Following the success of the launch of All Things Bright … the Group’s latest anthology at The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton on 13 November,...
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Pauline Llewellyn
Nov 4, 20181 min read
Japanese forms of poetry with David Bingham
In our October session we looked at Japanese forms of poetry: haiku, tanka and haibun. David Bingham first introduced the Bilston Writers...
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Ros Woolner
Sep 30, 20181 min read
Anthology launch!
Our latest anthology is here: All Things Bright is a collection of short stories and poems by group members. Where else can you find...
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Mark Yates
Sep 18, 20182 min read
Travel writing
When I realised that Saturday’s session was to be on travel writing, I have to confess that I wasn’t overly excited. I didn’t envisage...
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Carol Howarth
Aug 27, 20182 min read
Journals to submit work to for publication
The group looked at several journals which Bilston Writers members could investigate to see if they would like to enter their work for...
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Ros Woolner
Jul 28, 20181 min read
Inspiration from colours and paintings with Jeff Phelps & Marion Cockin
In July, Jeff Phelps and Marion Cockin ran a workshop for us on writing inspired by colour and paintings. We started with a fun exercise...
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Ros Woolner
Jun 29, 20182 min read
Metaphors and images with Jeff Phelps
In a fascinating session on 16th June, covering metaphor, extended metaphors, allegory and symbols, Jeff got us to think about the images...
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Marion Cockin
May 29, 20182 min read
Imagery and metaphor with Roz Goddard
Roz put us straight on to the path of imagery and metaphor by inviting us to choose two illustrated postcards from a wide collection. We...
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Jill Tromans
Apr 24, 20181 min read
Flash, micro, nano
April’s workshop was ably presented by Roger Noons. He introduced us to the increasingly-popular form that is flash fiction. Roger’s talk...
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Trevor Raybould
Mar 20, 20183 min read
Making time to write and developing a writing habit
There were fifteen members in attendance and Ros Woolner of Bilston Writers led the workshop. She opened by pointing out that each of us...
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Roger Noons
Feb 18, 20182 min read
Editing with Jane Seabourne
At the February meeting, 17 members and guests were treated to a Workshop on editing by local poet, Jane Seabourne. Jane was her usual...
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Ros Woolner
Jan 29, 20182 min read
Script writing with John Edgar
John Edgar, writer and storyteller, ran a session on script writing for us in January: layout, stage instructions, differences between...
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