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

Thursday 15 February 2018

The book festival...


There seems there has been a glitch with the content of the email I sent last night, disappearing from view! So I’m trying again to remember exactly what was included! Here goes!

First I hope you will all welcome the news that we have two slots at the Felixstowe Book Festival (FBF). We discussed the offer of a new event at the last Scribblers meeting.

We will be participating in the Cafe Culture session 5.45 - 7.30pm on Saturday 30 June which will feature the three Felixstowe groups – our own Scribblers, the Orwell Writers’ and the Poets. The good news is that each of the three groups have been allocated 8 free tickets each which is a very generous offer on the part of the organisers.

Additionally we have been offered the final slot in the FBF programme for another Flash Fiction kind of event. This will be on from 4.30 until 5.30 on Sunday 1st July in the Furneaux Suite at the Orwell Hotel. I have offered, and it has been accepted, for the Orwell Writers’ to join us a shared venture. I hope you all agree as it will be a great boost to both our groups who already work closely together. This event will be chargeable.

I really hope that our members will support both these events and show the positive creative skills that Felixstowe Scribblers have to offer. It really is a good time to be part of our group.

One final FBF point. We have a request from Meg Reid the organiser who says:-

“I know some of you help out a lot at the festival but you may have heard that for financial reasons to do with money we have extended the festival from Wednesday to Sunday and also added a pop up festival along the seafront in beach huts and a container in the gardens. This means we need more help at the festival so would welcome hearing from your members if they can assist by acting as marshals, ticket takers etc or to hand out publicity at the pop up events. We also need someone qualified in first aid.”

If you are willing to help as Meg asks, please contact her direct – otherwise let me know I will forward your details on.

Our next meeting is coming up quite quickly now. It is the Jack Wilkinson Memorial trophy for a story about or for children, The work must not include any reference to the identity of the author. It must be a maximum of 1,000 words, typed on one side of the paper and the sheets clipped or stapled together please. The meeting starts at 7.30pm on Tuesday 20th February in our usual meeting place.

I believe Mairead has, or will be emailing everyone about the forthcoming meal.

Until Tuesday...


Keep Scribbling!