WRITE BY THE SEA IN FOLKESTONE
To provide a safe, inclusive and constructive environment for local writers to share and discuss their work.
Christopher Law lives in the South East of England where he’s been writing about monsters since childhood. He is the author of Chaos Tale and Chaos Tales II: Hell TV and has appeared in a number of anthologies, including regular slots in the Burdizzo charity range. For more info and free stories go to evilscribbles.wordpress.com or facebook.com/evilscribbles
Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo, bred endangered penguins, investigated illegal bear farms, produced award-winning journalism and spent several weeks of his life at the annual United Nations climate change negotiations. He is interested in what people think about nature and our place in it. His writing includes work published by The Economist, Nature, The Ecologist and Ensia, and chapters of Dry: Life without Water (Harvard University Press); Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang Publishing) and Culture and Climate Change: Narratives (Shed). He is the illustrator of Extraordinary Animals (Greenwood Publishing Group) and maintains a blog called Under the Banyan.
His book Ladders to heaven is available on Amazon here.
I have just checked on the numbers for this site and was surprised to see the number of countries that have been having a look so thought I would share with you.
We will be using this site for all the group’s events and notices next year so if you haven’t put in your email then head there now just scroll down this page until you see this: 
Then click on FOLLOW US. You will then be emailed as soon as something is posted on here.
From the 9th January 2020, this writing group will be held at The Hideaway in Bouverie Road West. The bar and restaurant will be open with an evening menu available. It is all on the same level so easily managed for the disabled.
Our meetings will follow the same as this year, a group meeting and an author talk each month. We will also have special events like a sci-fi evening and a crime panel, these dates will be available next year.
We will also have a BOOK SWAP table for the readers, a group book reading will be available each month for the members who like to read and chat about the books. Maybe we could read the book that our visiting author has written so we can then ask any questions we may have about the book?
We should have our retreat up and running by the summer so if you have any ideas of workshops you would like to attend then please let me know. My plan is for authors to come and stay in Folkestone so they can just write in a calm atmosphere but with the opportunity of attending workshops if they would like too.
Newsletters will now be emailed to all members once a month. Please sign up to receive emails with the latest posts from this website as then you will not miss anything.
We welcome new members, also if anyone wants to be part of the group but cannot attend the meetings then do please let me know as I can keep you informed about everything from the group.
Thank you to everyone that attends you are what makes this group so great.