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!
