Meetings, News

NEWS – TONIGHT

Hi, first of all I hope you are keeping well and safe. A few things have been bubbling away in the background and I would like to share the Zoom meetings with you that Tony has undertaken to host for the group.  Thank you Tony.

I am struggling with this lockdown so not really up for much at all, in fact I keep thinking I should be writing about all this as it will eventually be history that our future generations will read about and learn, but the motivation and thoughts are just not there.

Here is the message from Tony about how to connect with us tonight.

TONIGHT 6.55

 

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The meeting ID is 788-8834-9662

The meeting Password is 132655

You may not have to use these figures.

I will open things up at 6.55pm.

I have now purchased a monthly subscription to Zoom, so there should be no issues about the meeting stopping suddenly.

That said, we can break again around 8pm in order that, those who wish to, can express their support for key workers.

I am planning now that we are joined each week by one or more local creatives to entertain us. This week, I am delighted to say that we have two popular artists for the price of one.

Some of you may know Helen Finn (Finn to her friends), owner of YoYo’s Street Food stall on the Old High Street. She is also a talented singer-songwriter, as well as fine interpreter of others’ work, and she will be singing and playing for us this evening.

In addition, I am so pleased that we will have Anthony White from Poets’ Corner reading his latest poem, “Isolation April 2020”.

With the 75th anniversary of VE Day on the following day, I invite attendees to read anything relating to the Second World War that is meaningful to them – poem, speech, personal reminiscence. Frank Butler and I are currently planning to read from the poets from that conflict.

It would also have been Robert Browning’s birthday, so if anyone wants to read from his work, they will be very welcome.

Ultimately, you are invited to read anything – a favourite poem, extract from fiction – or something you have written.

And if all else fails, I have another light Coronavirus inspired quiz for us to do!

Finally, if anyone would like to invite friends to join us, it would be great to see them too.

Look forward to seeing you this evening!

Tony Quarrington
 
(Owner, Tony’s Fabulous Folkestone: Voted Best Home Based Business in Folkestone 2019)
Telephone:     +44 1303 778543
Mobile:           +44 7738 624522
Blog:               www.tonyquarrington.wordpress.com/
See you all later
Karen
COMPETITIONS

COMPETITIONS

Hi everyone, I have been through the competitions and picked out the best ones for the group, good luck and let us all know if you enter so we can cheer you on from afar.

MAY

Stories

Plays

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Poems

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JUNE

Stories

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Poems

Happy writing

Author event 2019

DAVE STONE

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Dave is a local poet, singer, guitarist living in Folkestone, he has been writing his qquirky stories for the last twenty years and his output has increased as his work gets a wider audiance. Today it comprises, comedy peices, blues songs, tragedies and love storues as well as a more recent venture into story telling.

Dave is a regular at the various open mike nights on and around and is looking to reach a wider audiance, his first book is a collection of some of his work over the past twenty years and volume 2 is already in the early stages of preparation.

Things to make you think, are they songs or poems? You decide.

 

Author event 2019

DREW WAGER

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Drew Wagar was born in Canada in 1970, but has lived in the UK since 1972. He was educated at the university of Brighton where he studied Computer Science. Drew published his first novel, ‘Torn’, in 2011 and followed this up with a short story in the anthology ‘Fusion’ in 2012. Drew has written one of the official novels set in the universe of Elite: Dangerous by Frontier Developments. This book, ‘Elite:Reclamation’ , is now on Amazon worldwide. EMANATION is the first book in Drew’s upcoming ‘Shadeward Saga’, hardback editions will be available from October 2015. www.drewwagar.com

Drew is on his tenth novel at the moment with them all available on Amazon here.

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Author event 2019

MARK STAY

Mark writes Sci-fi adventure, the newest release is The End of Magic 2019 which is available on Amazon here.

Mark co-wrote the movie ROBOT OVERLORDS with director Jon Wright, which was selected for the 58th BFI London Film Festival, he also wrote the film’s novelisation which was published by Gollancz to critical acclaim. Mark is also co-presenter of The Bestseller Experiment podcast, where he and Mark Desvaux challenged themselves to write a Kindle bestseller in 12 months. Their novel, BACK TO REALITY, was an international bestseller in 10 categories. Born in London, he now lives in Kent (it’s the law, apparently) with writer and Youtube gardener Claire Burgess, their kids, several chickens and a murderous fish.

2020 launches his next BEST SELLER EXPERIMENT which consists of writing 200 words a day throughtout 2020.

https://bestsellerexperiment.com/bxp2020/

Events

TONIGHT IS THE LIVING ADVENT CALENDAR 10th DECEMBER 2019

THE CHAMBERS 6PM FOR OUR GHOSTLY TALES SPONSORED BY THE CHAMBERS AND KAREN’S WORLD

A very ghostly affair tonight, are you brave enough to come and listen?

The group has worked really hard researching and writing these pieces for tonight’s performance. It would be lovely to see you there supporting them and the group.

It’s been a busy year for the group so we are finishing off with a bang or maybe a carol.  Afterwards, we will be downstairs at the back of the bar for a Christmas drink so if you would like to find out more about the group then do please pop along.

During the Christmas break, I will be doing posts about the many authors that attended our ‘Meet The Author’ event last month so look out for them.