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

Friday, 6 April 2018

Kate Worsley Creative Writing Course.

Dear all, 

Please forgive the global email approach, but if you know of family or friends who may be interested in my first beginners course, do forward or Facebook. I’d be most grateful. 

With very best wishes 

Kate 
@khworsley 

‘Kate Worsley does just what a great historical novelist should do: she inhabits her characters without strain, without fuss, but with obvious assurance, making them and their period feel utterly close and convincing. I can’t wait to see more of her fiction.’ 

Sarah Waters, author of Booker-shortlisted Fingersmith and The Little Stranger. 

ONE FREE PLACE ON NEW BEGINNERS CREATIVE WRITING COURSE IN MANNINGTREE THIS SUMMER 

Always fancied writing but don't know where to start? Are you a secret writer but haven't dared show anyone your work? Prize-winning local novelist Kate Worsley is running a new beginners creative writing course at The Red Lion in Manningtree. She will help you explore what makes fiction work and how you can turn your ideas into reality.  

The course has been arranged by The Writers’ Company. Run by professional authors, the Wivenhoe-based organisation specialises in creative writing courses, events and manuscript services. All courses are taught by professional writers with years of teaching experience.  

‘Everyone is welcome,’ says Kate. 'I remember vividly how nervous I was, the evening I started my beginners writing course at Birkbeck. But now I realise, and I reckon most writers would agree, you feel like a beginner every time you sit down to face that blank page, however long you have been writing.’ 

And one free place has been reserved for someone who needs it.  

‘We are very aware just how hard it can be to get yourself onto a course like this,’ adds Kate. 'It’s not just the fee, but arranging and paying for transport and managing caring responsibilities. Let alone finding the confidence, the time and the energy!' 

The Red Lion is Manningtree’s oldest pub dating back to 1605. The Writers Company classes take place in the Pump Room, a quiet and private ground floor room with a small step to outside which is also the venue for a monthly poetry evening. There is plenty of street parking nearby and it’s a 15-minute walk from Manningtree station. 

THE COURSE 
The 10-week course takes place 7 to 9pm from 25 April to 4 July 2018 (with a break for half term on 30 May) at The Red Lion, 42 South Street, Manningtree CO11 1BG. For more details  www.thewriterscompany.co.uk/courses. Any questions, please email   contact@thewriterscompany.co.uk and we will call you back.  

KATE WORSLEY 
Kate Worsley's 18th-century Essex seafaring novel SHE RISES (Bloomsbury, 2013), won the New Angles Prize for Literature and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the US. 
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She is an alumnus of the Writers Centre Norwich Escalator literature development scheme, and was awarded an Arts Council Grant for the Arts to work on her second novel, set in 1930s rural East Anglia. 
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She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Essex University from 2014-2017, and has been a visiting lecturer in creative writing at City University London since 2015. She also works as a freelance mentor and consultant. 
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Kate Worsley is a course leader, manuscript assessor and mentor for The Writers' Company. She will also be running a Historical Fiction Day in Wivenhoe in September. 


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