Author: Jutta Rosen

Our monthly Mug of the Month Competition (MOTM) is scheduled a week earlier than usual, and we are proud to announce that eleven contestants are participating. With entries from some of our new members, we can expect a particularly exciting and varied selection of texts around the required words HIDE and STEAL. The winner will…

Our session this week is influenced by the excitement in the run-up to Culture Night 2023, which will take place on Friday, September 22. Our members have produced a two-hour video of our activities, with short portraits of themselves and where they live, as well as extracts from their works. In ‘A Tapestry of Words’…

Our session this week will be taken up by the Annual General Meeting 2023. The topics of the agenda include Business, New Books, the Anthology 2025, Literary Events, Tutorials for Upgrading Skills, PR, and any other topics that members might suggest. So it promises to be a full and interesting evening. For the detailed agenda,…

We are delighted to announce the opening of yet another year of writing creativity under the wing of our Write-On Group. Have our authors been active during the summer break? Or have they granted their sources of inspiration a holiday, so as to be even more productive during the coming season? These questions will surely…

After another year of inspired and inspiring writing, our Write-On season is drawing to a close, and the coming session will be the last before the summer break. Meetings will resume in August. For tonight’s session, Write-On members are invited to select their highlights from the past season, so that we can enjoy a short…

This week sees the last of this literary year’s Mug of the Month contests, marking the close of another wonderful year of creativity! We can expect the usual close competition of poems and texts, this time containing the key words ‘Fly’ and ‘Fan’. Good luck to all contributors! Four poems follow, including a tribute to…

Our meeting this week begins with a tribute to our dear member Celia Scully, who passed away recently. We shall miss her wise advice and gentle but precise comments, but most of all we will regret no longer being able to enjoy her own polished, touching and versatile poems. May she Rest in Peace. Poems…

This week presents a colourful mix of submissions: the genre ‘Dialogue’ (Mary Hodson) is a newcomer that we look forward to! Seamus Keogh’s poem with its Irish title has been queueing up for the third week, and will hopefully be presented this evening. And a warm welcome to a new participant, Eilis Hannon, who is…

Next month will see the launch of one of Write-On’s two publications this year: Frank Fahy’s collection of short stories ‘A Father’s Love and Other Stories’, which is due out on June 14. In anticipation of this exciting event, Frank will be reading one of the stories from his collection this Thursday. Several of our…