Formed over forty years ago, our Writers Circle is based in Felixstowe, Suffolk. Meetings are held in The Room at the Top in Felixstowe Library, normally on the first and third Tuesday of each month commencing at 7.30pm and finishing by 10.00pm. Check this weblog for details of meetings.

There is an annual November to November fee of £30, April to November is £20 and June to November £15. For members preferring to pay at each meeting the charge is £5 per meeting. To contact Felixstowe Scribblers simply email scribblers.1@btinternet.com or the Secretary, catherine.stafford1@ntlworld.com

Tuesday 1 March 2011

The Woman Before Me

The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall has been featured on the Lesley Dolphin show on BBC Radio Suffolk, following its longlisting for the New Angle Prize for Literature.

Ruth's hotly anticipated second novel The Sacrificial Man is published by Legend Press on 25th June 2011.

The second biennial award of the East Anglian based New Angle Prize for Literature closed for entries in January. A broad field of nearly 40 entries has given the judges - Mark Cocker, Nicci Gerrard and Gill Lowe - a difficult task. Mark Cocker declared: "the depth of the challenge for the New Angle judges is proving the competition's worth... It is extraordinary how East Anglia stimulates such a full spectrum of writing."

The judges have just released their initial recommendations in a long-list of thirteen from which the final shortlist of six will be selected.

Aftermath by Ronald Blythe (Black Dog Books, 2010)

Water Marks: Art in East Anglia by Ian Collins (Black Dog Books, 2010)

The Woman Before Me by Ruth Dugdall (Legend Press, 2010)

The Aldeburgh Scallop by Maggi Hambling (Full Circle Editions, 2010)

The Breakfast Machine by Helen Ivory (Bloodaxe Books, 2010)

Death Watch by Jim Kelly (Penguin, 2010)

Rumour by A.C.Lawrence (Sandlings Press, 2009).

The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison (Chatto & Windus, 2010)

The Wake by Jeremy Page (Viking, Penguin 2009)

The King of the Norfolk Poachers: His Life and Times by Charlotte Paton (Old Pond Publishing, 2009)

Norfolk Red: The Life of Wilf Page, Countryside Communist by Mike Pentlelow, (Lawrence and Wishart, 2009).

Lost Country Houses of Suffolk by W.M. Roberts (Boydell Press, 2010)

A Flora of Suffolk by MN Sandford & R J Fisk (Sandford & Fisk, 2010)

The shortlist is expected to be announced on March 28th.

More details (including a downloadable copy of the long-list with judges' comments)are available from the New Angle Prize website: www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk/NAP.html