WRITE BY THE SEA IN FOLKESTONE
To provide a safe, inclusive and constructive environment for local writers to share and discuss their work.
THURSDAY 27th APRIL 6pm
Our third anthology has taken longer to edit and publish because of the work that has gone into it from Matthew and Debby Jones, whom we thank very much. We had over 30 stories and poems this time from the group, thank you for your support.
We will reveal the cover at our next meeting on Thursday 27th April, this event is open to everyone, and there will also be a talk about writing romance.
We have set some dates towards our third anthology publication.
The cover reveal will be on the 27th of April 2023
The book launch will be at The New Bookshop on Tontine Street on Saturday 13th May between 2 & 6 pm. There will be some readings from the book and your opportunity to meet the authors and of course, buy the book also the best bit is there will be prosecco and nibbles.
Hope to see you all there.
Orders in by Wednesday morning, please, see you at 6pm for a 7pm start.
Happy new year, so excited for our meetings and events this year, we are also coming into our 5th year of Write By The Sea. How quick time goes, I feel we are getting better each year. Our first meeting is Thursday 12th January, see you there. Here are the dates and events so far that we have booked, the rest should be confirmed before the end of the month.
What a brilliant year for this writing group, with so many events and meetings that have all been successful. It was great to have Mićhel Faber visit us and give an excellent talk about his writing. If you have bought his books and want them signed he will pop in and do a signing next year. The workshops have been popular so we will be doing more of those in the new year. We are in the process of getting our events sorted for the year so we can step up our advertising in printed form. The third anthology has been delayed as it is so big, we have over 30 stories this time so editing has taken longer. We are aiming to have it ready for sale in the Spring as I think Travel By The Sea will be a good time to launch. We are arranging a book launch for this anthology so will let you know the date and venue as soon as possible.
We are finished now for this year so have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and see you on the 12th of January at Anna’s at 6pm.
Karen
We had a bit of fun last night which ended up in some very good short stories, I love the way they are all so different even when we have the same idea to write about.
We now have our meetings at Anna’s in Folkestone, they have agreed to host us all next year, plus all being well we will be doing the Living advent calendar from their doorway as well.
Our next event will be about book cover photography with Andy Markwell.
Just a reminder that our meetings are always free, we support the hosts by having a drink or food on the night.
Look out for our last event of the year, saving the best until last!
Hope you are all having fun in the sun, that would make a good story, ‘Fun in Folkestone’.
Our events are back at The Hideaway with our group meetings, new dates above as our next guest has covid so I have swapped a couple round. No erotica until November, Jane will be pleased as she will miss it due to her holiday.
We have the lovely Carol coming over from Broadstairs to present a workshop on editing, sounds exciting and I am hopeless at that so looking forward to picking up some tips.
Hope to see you all there as we have a break until the 8th of September. Have a super summer and see you in September. Don’t forget our stories for the next anthology have to be in by the 31st August 2022
Please let Karen or The Hideaway have your orders by Wednesday please.
Our task for this week is to write down words you associate with Spring, then using some of them write a story in 300 or fewer words about SPRING.
These are optional tasks so if you want to share some of your own work with the group for critique or advice then please bring it along.