Hope to see you all on the 6th.
Until then,
Keep Scribbling!!!
Dave
Tuesday 30 August 2016
Our next gathering...
Just in case you need reminding, there is no meeting tonight. As you know we meet on the first and third Tuesdays of each month and with an 'extra' Tuesday in August it means our next meeting will be on Tuesday 6th September. The homework assignment is to write up to 1,000 words on the rather apt subject of "AUTUMN".
Friday 19 August 2016
Meeting report
Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 16 August 2016
Present: Dave, Mairead, Beryl, Dick, Richard, Liliane, Di, Jane, Gerry, Jim, Mel, Barry, Cathy
Apologies: Steve, Caz, Carolyn
Business: None
With a full house, we decided to get down to hearing the Jack Wilkinson entries straight away – with eleven stories to read between them, Beryl and Dick had their work cut out. Our thanks to them for, as ever, doing an excellent job.
The variety of work was tremendous, and the standard extremely high. After voting, there was a tie for first place, so we had a second vote to choose between the two top stories. Our thanks go to Mel for counting the votes at both stages.
In first place was Gerry, with ‘The Egg’
Missing the first place by a whisker, but coming in an excellent second, was Jim’s story ‘Wrigglin’ in the rain’
In third place was Mel, with her story ‘Marvin’
The remaining stories were as follows:
The holiday, by Dave
Childhood (a poem’), by Richard
Little Maya's Seashore Game: A tale told in paragraphs and quatrains, by Mairead
The French experience, by Barry
Tom’s complaint, by Di
Cat, by Beryl
The little green men, (a poem), by Dick
The Matchmaker, by Jane
We all enjoyed coffee and chocolatey things (thanks Mairead!), then Dick presented Gerry with the trophy. Photos taken and the winner’s certificate given, the meeting was called to a close.
Dave has passed on the following competition details:
THE GBP PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016/17 is open to submissions!
Choose between £1000 or 12 months of editorial support; the winning author will also be interviewed and profiled in The Bookseller, the UK's most popular publishing magazine.
With this year's judges including Guardian columnist Chris Power, the Art Council's director of literature Sarah Crown, and Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author Alex Pheby, your story will be read by some of the finest literary critics in the UK.
Further details, key dates, and submission guidelines can be found at:
http://galleybeggar.co.uk/2015-short-story-prize
Galley Beggar Press is a multi-award-winning publisher, founded in 2012 by Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar with the goal of supporting ambitious writing. Since its inception, Galley Beggar Press authors and books have been longlisted, shortlisted, and the winners of over 20 of the world’s most prestigious literary awards – including the Folio Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas International Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Wellcome Book Prize, the Desmond Elliott First Novel Award, and the Gordon Burns Prize for Fiction. Short story award listings include the EFG Sunday Times Short Story Prize, the Tom Gallon Award, the Saboteur Award and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
A reminder, too, about the Writers’ Café session at 7.30pm, Monday 22 August, in Ipswich. Details on Suffolk Writers website.
Next meeting
This will be on 6 September, in THREE week’s time. The topic is ‘Autumn’, as chosen by our worthy winner of the Jack Wilkinson memorial trophy, Gerry. Work of up to 1000 words.
Present: Dave, Mairead, Beryl, Dick, Richard, Liliane, Di, Jane, Gerry, Jim, Mel, Barry, Cathy
Apologies: Steve, Caz, Carolyn
Business: None
With a full house, we decided to get down to hearing the Jack Wilkinson entries straight away – with eleven stories to read between them, Beryl and Dick had their work cut out. Our thanks to them for, as ever, doing an excellent job.
The variety of work was tremendous, and the standard extremely high. After voting, there was a tie for first place, so we had a second vote to choose between the two top stories. Our thanks go to Mel for counting the votes at both stages.
In first place was Gerry, with ‘The Egg’
Missing the first place by a whisker, but coming in an excellent second, was Jim’s story ‘Wrigglin’ in the rain’
In third place was Mel, with her story ‘Marvin’
The remaining stories were as follows:
The holiday, by Dave
Childhood (a poem’), by Richard
Little Maya's Seashore Game: A tale told in paragraphs and quatrains, by Mairead
The French experience, by Barry
Tom’s complaint, by Di
Cat, by Beryl
The little green men, (a poem), by Dick
The Matchmaker, by Jane
We all enjoyed coffee and chocolatey things (thanks Mairead!), then Dick presented Gerry with the trophy. Photos taken and the winner’s certificate given, the meeting was called to a close.
Dave has passed on the following competition details:
THE GBP PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016/17 is open to submissions!
Choose between £1000 or 12 months of editorial support; the winning author will also be interviewed and profiled in The Bookseller, the UK's most popular publishing magazine.
With this year's judges including Guardian columnist Chris Power, the Art Council's director of literature Sarah Crown, and Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author Alex Pheby, your story will be read by some of the finest literary critics in the UK.
Further details, key dates, and submission guidelines can be found at:
http://galleybeggar.co.uk/2015-short-story-prize
Galley Beggar Press is a multi-award-winning publisher, founded in 2012 by Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar with the goal of supporting ambitious writing. Since its inception, Galley Beggar Press authors and books have been longlisted, shortlisted, and the winners of over 20 of the world’s most prestigious literary awards – including the Folio Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas International Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Wellcome Book Prize, the Desmond Elliott First Novel Award, and the Gordon Burns Prize for Fiction. Short story award listings include the EFG Sunday Times Short Story Prize, the Tom Gallon Award, the Saboteur Award and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
A reminder, too, about the Writers’ Café session at 7.30pm, Monday 22 August, in Ipswich. Details on Suffolk Writers website.
Next meeting
This will be on 6 September, in THREE week’s time. The topic is ‘Autumn’, as chosen by our worthy winner of the Jack Wilkinson memorial trophy, Gerry. Work of up to 1000 words.
Wednesday 17 August 2016
What a night...
The Jack Wilkinson Memorial Trophy provided some extremely good stories for and about children. The competition was quite tense really as every story and poem seemed to be on par with the previous one. In the end votes were cast and counted with two stories collecting the same number of votes. In the absence of Caz it was then a case of invoking the new ruling and casting votes again for these two stories and even then the voting was very close.
Coming in third was Mel with 'Marvin'.
The runner-up was Jim with 'Wrigglin' in the rain'.
The winner was Gerry with 'The Egg'.
It was so nice to see a fresh face winning one of our competitions so well done Gerry.
Our next meeting will be in THREE weeks time on 6th September when the 1,000 word subject will be 'Autumn.'
Until then...
Keep Scribbling!!!
Coming in third was Mel with 'Marvin'.
The runner-up was Jim with 'Wrigglin' in the rain'.
The winner was Gerry with 'The Egg'.
It was so nice to see a fresh face winning one of our competitions so well done Gerry.
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| Gerry receiving the trophy from the previous holder, Dick. |
Our next meeting will be in THREE weeks time on 6th September when the 1,000 word subject will be 'Autumn.'
Until then...
Keep Scribbling!!!
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Galley Beggar Press
THE GBP PRESS SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016/17 is open to submissions!
Choose between £1000 or 12 months of editorial support; the winning author will also be interviewed and profiled in The Bookseller, the UK's most popular publishing magazine.
With this year's judges including Guardian columnist Chris Power, the Art Council's director of literature Sarah Crown, and Wellcome Book Prize-shortlisted author Alex Pheby, your story will be read by some of the finest literary critics in the UK.
Further details, key dates, and submission guidelines can be found at:
Galley Beggar Press is a multi-award-winning publisher, founded in 2012 by Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar with the goal of supporting ambitious writing. Since its inception, Galley Beggar Press authors and books have been longlisted, shortlisted, and the winners of over 20 of the world’s most prestigious literary awards – including the Folio Prize, the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas International Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Wellcome Book Prize, the Desmond Elliott First Novel Award, and the Gordon Burns Prize for Fiction. Short story award listings include the EFG Sunday Times Short Story Prize, the Tom Gallon Award, the Saboteur Award and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
Sunday 14 August 2016
'Missing' links.
Two or three links to incoming mail I have just found ‘hidden’ in my emails. Hope they have some interest for you.
Wigtown Book Festival: http://wigtownbookfestival.com/programme
Don’t forget Tuesday coming, 16th August, the Jack Wilkinson Memorial Trophy at Scribblers. Start 7.30pm. Details on this weblog.
Keep Scribbling!!!
Saturday 13 August 2016
Our next meeting... Jack's memorial trophy...
Next week we hold the Jack Wilkinson Memorial Trophy for the sixth time. It is a very poignant time as we have just had the anniversary of his passing. The present holder of the trophy, Dick, has promised to bring it back on Tuesday so we hope he remembers!
It is only open to attending members. There should be no indication of the writer on the entry.
The entry should be up to 1,000 words written for children or, alternatively, a story that has a child included as an integral character.
Whenever possible, independent people will read out member's work.
Members will vote for their favourite work of the evening but must not vote for their own work
When votes have been counted then the writer with the top marks will be awarded the trophy.
The Jack Wilkinson Memorial Trophy will be held twice yearly.
Winners must undertake to return the trophy at the next staging of the competition.
Here are the basic rules for this competition :
It is only open to attending members. There should be no indication of the writer on the entry.
The entry should be up to 1,000 words written for children or, alternatively, a story that has a child included as an integral character.
Whenever possible, independent people will read out member's work.
Members will vote for their favourite work of the evening but must not vote for their own work
When votes have been counted then the writer with the top marks will be awarded the trophy.
The trophy does not need engraving; instead the winner will receive a certificate for their achievement.
The Jack Wilkinson Memorial Trophy will be held twice yearly.
Winners must undertake to return the trophy at the next staging of the competition.
As Caz has informed me that she will not be attending once again, then in the event of a tie everyone will be asked to vote for the two (or more) stories that have tied and on this occasion only, the authors may vote for their own story.
The meeting takes place in The Room at the Top, on Tuesday next, 16th August, start time 7.30pm.
Hope to see you there so, until then,
Keep Scribbling!
Friday 5 August 2016
Meeting report
Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on Tuesday 2 August 2016
Present: Dave,
Mairead, Beryl, Dick, Richard, Liliane, Di, Jane, Cathy,Apologies: Jim, Mel, Ann, John
Business:
Another thoroughly enjoyable evening – and as ever, our thanks to Mairead for providing the biscuits for us.
Our belated birthday wishes go to Dick, who celebrated his birthday at the weekend.
Scribblers’ weblog – Dave has noticed a vast increase in ‘hits’ from Russia – and wonders why!
Publication of the winning story of the FBF short story competition in the Suffolk Magazine. We agreed that it would be good to see the standard of the winning entry – Cathy to purchase the magazine on the group’s behalf once the story is published. This matter came up for discussion after Jane read out her piece (placed third in said competition) – the standard of Jane’s work was so high, we all wondered what could have beaten it!
Dave passed on this information that he’d received from Ed Broom, who ran our flash fiction event in the 2015 FBF.
A summer special edition of the Ipswich writers' cafe will be held:
* on Monday 22nd August
* at 7:30pm
* in La Tour Cycle Cafe, 17 Tower Street, Ipswich IP1 3BE
It's a terrific venue as you'll know if you came to the fantastic BooksEast event back in May. Simply bring along a short piece of your own creative writing (short story, poem, monologue, etc.) that you'd like to read aloud. Put your name in the hat and, when your name pops out, enjoy your five minutes of fame/infamy. Between each batch of half a dozen readers, we'll break to chat and refresh our cups.
No booking required. Free entry. Spectators more than welcome. Tell your friends.
From Ed@IpsWritersCafe
PS If you can't make it this time, don't worry. This *could* become a monthly event if rumours are to be believed.
Readings of work:
The theme for this homework, courtesy of Jane, was ‘The Barbecue’. Almost all of us admitted to finding it very difficult to write to the theme. The struggle was worth it though – without exception the pieces we heard were beautifully executed, gripping, and novel in their approach to the subject. Perhaps we should always have difficult topics!
Dave: Overdone
Imagine the massive explosion, the pall of thick black smoke and the flames from the nearby Industrial Unit. The terror and shock of residents evacuated to a church hall where Gloria sussed it was her inept husband’s attempt to surprise the family with his first ever barbecue...
Di: The barbecue
Liliane: We’ll have a barbecue
Dick: What’s in a name
Cathy: An invitation
Preparations to attend a family barbecue reveal the destructive results of remaining in an abusive relationship
Jane: The lucky ones
Richard: The barbecue
Beryl: Honour
Mairead: A classic barbecue in Felixstowe
Next meeting
Our next meeting, on 16 August, will be the Jack Wilkinson trophy evening – details can be found at http://scribblers2010.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-jack-wilkinson-memorial-trophy.html
Tuesday 2 August 2016
Barbecue successes.
Despite the moans and groans on the selected homework theme, The Barbecue, everyone produced some of the best pieces of writing we have heard in a long time - from explosions to cannibalism and wife beating to name but a few slants. the stories were completely captivating.
Of course there is always one exception isn't there? Jane had chosen the subject but decided to read out her fabulous entry from the Felixstowe Book Festival that came third. A lot of research and hard work produced a fantastic result that we were able to share this evening.
Our next meeting will be for the Jack Wilkinson Trophy when we ask for up to 1,000 words on any subject providing it is for or about children. No author identification marks please, as all work will be read as anonymous work with the best story, identified by those present will be awarded the trophy.
Until then
Keep Scribbling...
Of course there is always one exception isn't there? Jane had chosen the subject but decided to read out her fabulous entry from the Felixstowe Book Festival that came third. A lot of research and hard work produced a fantastic result that we were able to share this evening.
Our next meeting will be for the Jack Wilkinson Trophy when we ask for up to 1,000 words on any subject providing it is for or about children. No author identification marks please, as all work will be read as anonymous work with the best story, identified by those present will be awarded the trophy.
Until then
Keep Scribbling...
Ipswich Writers' Cafe
A summer special edition of the Ipswich writers' cafe will be held:
* on Monday 22nd August
* at 7:30pm
* in La Tour Cycle Cafe, 17 Tower Street, Ipswich IP1 3BE
It's a terrific venue as you'll know if you came to the fantastic BooksEast event back in May. Simply bring along a short piece of your own creative writing (short story, poem, monologue, etc.) that you'd like to read aloud. Put your name in the hat and, when your name pops out, enjoy your five minutes of fame/infamy.
Between each batch of half a dozen readers, we'll break to chat and refresh our cups.
No booking required. Free entry. Spectators more than welcome. Tell your friends.
Ed
@IpsWritersCafe
PS If you can't make it this time, don't worry. This *could* become a monthly event if rumours are to be believed.
Monday 1 August 2016
Our next meeting
Hope you are all enjoying the weekend. It's nice and sunny here at the moment, ideal weather for a barbecue. Which reminds me. Our next meeting is on Tuesday 2nd August in The Room at the Top when our homework assignment was to write up to 1,000 words on 'The Barbecue'. I wonder what gems we will hear this time round?
The meeting starts at 7.30pm.
Here's a little prior warning that the next Jack Wilkinson Trophy meeting will be a fortnight later on Tuesday 16th August.
Keep Scribbling,
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