SUMMER FETE SUNDAY 18 JULY 2010
In aid of the under-privileged children in the Philippines.
Date: Sunday, 18 July 2010
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Location: GROUNDS OF ST CLEMENTS SOCIAL CLUBL FOXHALL ROAD IPSWICH
FOOD STALL, BOOK STALL, JAMIE OLIVER COOKWARE, BRIC A BRAC BOUNCY CASTLE, INFLATABLE SLIDE, MUCH MORE.
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Bentwaters Road
Good luck to Scribbler Stephen Tuthill who will be on stage in this fascinating production.
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
ANNOUNCING THE AESTHETICA CREATIVE WORKS COMPETITION
THE AESTHETICA CREATIVE WORKS COMPETITION.
My name is Bryony Byrne and I am the Marketing Officer for Aesthetica Magazine, one of the UK's leading arts and culture publications. We are keen to encourage creativity at Aesthetica and I just wanted to provide you with a bit of information about our Aesthetica Creative Works Competition, which offers a fantastic opportunity for both new and established writers to nurture their reputations on an international scale, in the hope that you could pass this on to your members at Felixstowe Scribblers.
We're keen to see writers from all across the world well-represented in the competition and I would be really grateful if you could pass on the information below to your mailing list. You can download the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition posters for details by CLICKING HERE.
Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for entries! Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, writers and poets to submit their work into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010. Now in its third year, the Creative Works Competition is a highly regarded competition that celebrates and champions creative talent across three disciplines, identifying new artists and writers and bringing them to international attention. Previous finalists have achieved success and recognition with accolades including: writing commissions from Channel 4, selection to represent Australia in the Florence Biennale, exhibitions at DACS (London), John Martin Gallery (London), Flores Fine Art Gallery (New York), inclusion in the International Drawing Competition exhibition (Poland) and the National Geographic International Photographic exhibition.
The Competition has three categories, Artwork, Poetry and Fiction.
Winners and finalists are published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual.
Winners of each category receive £500 prize money plus other prizes.
Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10.
The entry fee allows the submission of 2 images, 2 poems or 2 short stories.
The deadline for submissions is the 31st August 2010.
More guidelines on how to submit can be found online at http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
Bryony Byrne, Marketing Officer, Aesthetica Magazine, PO Box 371, York. YO23 1WL.
01904 479168
bryony@aestheticamagazine.com
www.aestheticamagazine.com
My name is Bryony Byrne and I am the Marketing Officer for Aesthetica Magazine, one of the UK's leading arts and culture publications. We are keen to encourage creativity at Aesthetica and I just wanted to provide you with a bit of information about our Aesthetica Creative Works Competition, which offers a fantastic opportunity for both new and established writers to nurture their reputations on an international scale, in the hope that you could pass this on to your members at Felixstowe Scribblers.
We're keen to see writers from all across the world well-represented in the competition and I would be really grateful if you could pass on the information below to your mailing list. You can download the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition posters for details by CLICKING HERE.
Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010
The Aesthetica Creative Works Competition is now open for entries! Aesthetica Magazine is inviting all artists, writers and poets to submit their work into the Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2010. Now in its third year, the Creative Works Competition is a highly regarded competition that celebrates and champions creative talent across three disciplines, identifying new artists and writers and bringing them to international attention. Previous finalists have achieved success and recognition with accolades including: writing commissions from Channel 4, selection to represent Australia in the Florence Biennale, exhibitions at DACS (London), John Martin Gallery (London), Flores Fine Art Gallery (New York), inclusion in the International Drawing Competition exhibition (Poland) and the National Geographic International Photographic exhibition.
The Competition has three categories, Artwork, Poetry and Fiction.
Winners and finalists are published in the Aesthetica Creative Works Annual.
Winners of each category receive £500 prize money plus other prizes.
Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10.
The entry fee allows the submission of 2 images, 2 poems or 2 short stories.
The deadline for submissions is the 31st August 2010.
More guidelines on how to submit can be found online at http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
Bryony Byrne, Marketing Officer, Aesthetica Magazine, PO Box 371, York. YO23 1WL.
01904 479168
bryony@aestheticamagazine.com
www.aestheticamagazine.com
Sunday, 20 June 2010
From Geraldine, a message
Hi,
Don't forget that tickets for the book launch of
'Feeding Strawberries to Pigs' are available at Cretingham golf club.
£10 is such good value!
Hog roast and strawberries
Please support this event.
Geraldine Rose
Don't forget that tickets for the book launch of
'Feeding Strawberries to Pigs' are available at Cretingham golf club.
£10 is such good value!
Hog roast and strawberries
Please support this event.
Geraldine Rose
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Meeting report
Meeting at Room at the Top
15th June 2010.
Those present
Dick, Liliane, Peter, Les, Jane, Linda, Tony, Dave, Trish and Barry
(Chair) and new member Malcolm.
First of all I would like to welcome Malcolm, who showed considerable
determination to undertake the trek from Hollesley to our meeting. We
hope he will find the group a sufficient draw to keep him coming in
the future.
Welcome back to Les after a weeks enforced confinement in Ipswich
Hospital where he was nursed back to health by our NHS professionals
there. We were pleased to find that his stay had not dampened his
natural wit which showed through having completed his homework in a
hospital bed. No mean feat!!!
The homework subject was 'Absent Friends' and as usual we had the
diverse interpretations of this theme, both humorous and those of a
more serious nature.
All pieces were received with enthusiasm and we noticed a slight
change in the temperature of the meeting whereby there was a bit more
interchanging of views on the works.
With eleven present it might be that we were worried over nothing with
regard to our flagging attendance figures; we shall see. Anyway, the
meeting seemed to go off well and what follows is a list of the pieces
entered and read last night.
Dick: Absent Friends?
Trish: Whiskey
Liliane: A toast to absent friends
Peter: Behind their back
Les: Take me home
Jane: Baking day
Malcolm: The Pied Piper of Lambeth
Linda: Bitter Sweet
Dave: Tragedy of War
Tony: Chapter 17. No place like Emoh
Barry: The road sweeper
The next meeting will be on the 6th July when the homework assignment will be up to 1,000 words on 'Mountaineering".
See you there!
Barry
15th June 2010.
Those present
Dick, Liliane, Peter, Les, Jane, Linda, Tony, Dave, Trish and Barry
(Chair) and new member Malcolm.
First of all I would like to welcome Malcolm, who showed considerable
determination to undertake the trek from Hollesley to our meeting. We
hope he will find the group a sufficient draw to keep him coming in
the future.
Welcome back to Les after a weeks enforced confinement in Ipswich
Hospital where he was nursed back to health by our NHS professionals
there. We were pleased to find that his stay had not dampened his
natural wit which showed through having completed his homework in a
hospital bed. No mean feat!!!
The homework subject was 'Absent Friends' and as usual we had the
diverse interpretations of this theme, both humorous and those of a
more serious nature.
All pieces were received with enthusiasm and we noticed a slight
change in the temperature of the meeting whereby there was a bit more
interchanging of views on the works.
With eleven present it might be that we were worried over nothing with
regard to our flagging attendance figures; we shall see. Anyway, the
meeting seemed to go off well and what follows is a list of the pieces
entered and read last night.
Dick: Absent Friends?
Trish: Whiskey
Liliane: A toast to absent friends
Peter: Behind their back
Les: Take me home
Jane: Baking day
Malcolm: The Pied Piper of Lambeth
Linda: Bitter Sweet
Dave: Tragedy of War
Tony: Chapter 17. No place like Emoh
Barry: The road sweeper
The next meeting will be on the 6th July when the homework assignment will be up to 1,000 words on 'Mountaineering".
See you there!
Barry
Committee meeting
Felixstowe Scribblers Committee Meeting Tuesday 8th June 2010.
Present: Dick, Peter, Barry, Ruth and Dave.
This informal meeting was called to appoint a new secretary to replace Dave who retired from the post and to look at the structure of the group and the format of the meetings.
As we have not heard from Alex it was decided to reduce the committee strength by one, this being Alex’s post.
The position of secretary has been accepted by Barry who will take up his post on Tuesday 15th June at the next Scribblers meeting.
Ruth remains as Social Secretary, Peter as Treasurer, Dick as recorder and Dave, who remains a committee member, will take responsibility for the weblog(s).
We had a number of suggestions over the recent large drop in attendances at the meetings and each was discussed and then compared to a cross section of twenty-one other groups through the UK.
Most groups meet as we do, fortnightly (or twice a month), some meet monthly whilst the minority meet weekly.
Generally our meeting format falls in line with most, the main difference being that the majority of groups charge an annual fee up to £35 together with a meeting fee. The wealthier clubs then have the ability to book regular guest speakers, authors, editors and the like.
As far as Felixstowe Scribblers are concerned we seem to have a similar criteria inviting a guest speaker for the last two years and this, without an annual fee. However it has been agreed to increase the suggested voluntary contribution each meeting from 50p to £1 starting in July.
Despite attempts at the last three AGMs to find out whether our meeting format and programme needed altering, it seemed everyone was happy as it was. Now, though, comments have been made whereby homework assignments, voluntary as they are, have become too onerous for some. Discussing this at length the committee decided to change the programme of meetings. One meeting a month will be for homework assignments only, in other words no more than twelve assignments per year. These will be set at the end of the homework meetings thus giving a full four weeks to create the work. When attendances are low we may also use time for impromptu writing exercises.
The second meeting of the month will be altered to encompass the Bill Budner Trophy and creative writing sessions led by a member of the committee. Where it is possible then a guest speaker may be brought in, subject to cost and availability.
Comments concerning the lack of feedback seem to apply to other groups as well. Here at Felixstowe we have always fought against harsh criticism but will be supportive and provide constructive comment as time permits. We have also declared in the past that it is very hard to give full and proper comment just from listening once to a piece of work. We offered an alternative to those who wanted feedback for them to provide a copy of their work that could be taken away and read in leisure. The feedback could be given at the next meeting, passed direct to the writer or even remain anonymous. With many of us on the Internet there is also the possibility of stories being emailed to each other for comment.
One new facility that we will provide in the very near future will be a password protected blog where members can post and share their work and will be able to comment on and receive feedback.
Your committee hopes you will appreciate its attempts at maintaining our high standards and delivering many of the items which were asked of us. Felixstowe Scribblers writing group provides a unique experience and will remain open to constructive comment and maintain its keenness to be progressive.
Present: Dick, Peter, Barry, Ruth and Dave.
This informal meeting was called to appoint a new secretary to replace Dave who retired from the post and to look at the structure of the group and the format of the meetings.
As we have not heard from Alex it was decided to reduce the committee strength by one, this being Alex’s post.
The position of secretary has been accepted by Barry who will take up his post on Tuesday 15th June at the next Scribblers meeting.
Ruth remains as Social Secretary, Peter as Treasurer, Dick as recorder and Dave, who remains a committee member, will take responsibility for the weblog(s).
We had a number of suggestions over the recent large drop in attendances at the meetings and each was discussed and then compared to a cross section of twenty-one other groups through the UK.
Most groups meet as we do, fortnightly (or twice a month), some meet monthly whilst the minority meet weekly.
Generally our meeting format falls in line with most, the main difference being that the majority of groups charge an annual fee up to £35 together with a meeting fee. The wealthier clubs then have the ability to book regular guest speakers, authors, editors and the like.
As far as Felixstowe Scribblers are concerned we seem to have a similar criteria inviting a guest speaker for the last two years and this, without an annual fee. However it has been agreed to increase the suggested voluntary contribution each meeting from 50p to £1 starting in July.
Despite attempts at the last three AGMs to find out whether our meeting format and programme needed altering, it seemed everyone was happy as it was. Now, though, comments have been made whereby homework assignments, voluntary as they are, have become too onerous for some. Discussing this at length the committee decided to change the programme of meetings. One meeting a month will be for homework assignments only, in other words no more than twelve assignments per year. These will be set at the end of the homework meetings thus giving a full four weeks to create the work. When attendances are low we may also use time for impromptu writing exercises.
The second meeting of the month will be altered to encompass the Bill Budner Trophy and creative writing sessions led by a member of the committee. Where it is possible then a guest speaker may be brought in, subject to cost and availability.
Comments concerning the lack of feedback seem to apply to other groups as well. Here at Felixstowe we have always fought against harsh criticism but will be supportive and provide constructive comment as time permits. We have also declared in the past that it is very hard to give full and proper comment just from listening once to a piece of work. We offered an alternative to those who wanted feedback for them to provide a copy of their work that could be taken away and read in leisure. The feedback could be given at the next meeting, passed direct to the writer or even remain anonymous. With many of us on the Internet there is also the possibility of stories being emailed to each other for comment.
One new facility that we will provide in the very near future will be a password protected blog where members can post and share their work and will be able to comment on and receive feedback.
Your committee hopes you will appreciate its attempts at maintaining our high standards and delivering many of the items which were asked of us. Felixstowe Scribblers writing group provides a unique experience and will remain open to constructive comment and maintain its keenness to be progressive.
Creative Writing Ink Online Courses
I run a company called Creative Writing Ink which offers online creative writing classes, and a critique and editorial service, among other things You will find more details at www.creativewritingink.com
All our tutors are professional and published writers and they work with students at their own level. Our online creative writing courses allow students to develop their writing skills through one-to-one exercises, lectures and critiques. The courses are structured in such a way that will allow students to fit their writing in and around their own schedule. Students will also receive weekly personal feedback from the tutor.
Our online courses include beginners creative writing, poetry, how to blog, memoir writing and writing for children. Our upcoming courses include novel writing and screenwriting. For online courses, all you need is internet access, as any notes/exercises will be emailed to you. You will find a full schedule of our classes at http://creativewriting.ie/online-writing-courses/.
We also have a free montly email newsletter which includes the latest publishing news, writing competitions and updates on freelance writing markets. You can sign up at www.creativewritingink.com
In addition to this, we operate an editing service for novelists who would like feedback from award-winning author, Conor Kostick. Conor's twelfth book will be published this year. For his contribution to children’s literature in Ireland Conor won the 2009 Reading Association of Ireland Special Merit Award. Conor runs a popular course - ’Finish your novel’ – at the Irish Writers’ Centre and several of his former students have gone on to successfully publish their novels and, indeed, climb the bestsellers’ chart. For any queries on this service, please email info@creativewritingink.com
Course Schedule
Online Courses
The courses below are all on demand and on a rolling basis, which means you can start whenever you wish.
Poetry 6 weeks
Beginners Creative Writing 10 weeks
How to Blog 4 weeks
Memoir Writing 10 weeks
Our Writing for Children course starts on July 19th and runs for 6 weeks.
For further information, please visit www.creativewritingink.com or email info@creativewritingink.com
Olive O'Brien
All our tutors are professional and published writers and they work with students at their own level. Our online creative writing courses allow students to develop their writing skills through one-to-one exercises, lectures and critiques. The courses are structured in such a way that will allow students to fit their writing in and around their own schedule. Students will also receive weekly personal feedback from the tutor.
Our online courses include beginners creative writing, poetry, how to blog, memoir writing and writing for children. Our upcoming courses include novel writing and screenwriting. For online courses, all you need is internet access, as any notes/exercises will be emailed to you. You will find a full schedule of our classes at http://creativewriting.ie/online-writing-courses/.
We also have a free montly email newsletter which includes the latest publishing news, writing competitions and updates on freelance writing markets. You can sign up at www.creativewritingink.com
In addition to this, we operate an editing service for novelists who would like feedback from award-winning author, Conor Kostick. Conor's twelfth book will be published this year. For his contribution to children’s literature in Ireland Conor won the 2009 Reading Association of Ireland Special Merit Award. Conor runs a popular course - ’Finish your novel’ – at the Irish Writers’ Centre and several of his former students have gone on to successfully publish their novels and, indeed, climb the bestsellers’ chart. For any queries on this service, please email info@creativewritingink.com
Course Schedule
Online Courses
The courses below are all on demand and on a rolling basis, which means you can start whenever you wish.
Poetry 6 weeks
Beginners Creative Writing 10 weeks
How to Blog 4 weeks
Memoir Writing 10 weeks
Our Writing for Children course starts on July 19th and runs for 6 weeks.
For further information, please visit www.creativewritingink.com or email info@creativewritingink.com
Olive O'Brien
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