Minutes of Scribblers meeting held on 15 October 2019
Present:
Dave, Liliane, David, Carole, Georgina, Jim, Martin, Stephen, Liz, Justin, Jane, Derek, Kay, Jane B, Cathy
Apologies:
Beryl, Steve, Tony, Arlette
Business:
Writeathon – continuing – seems that a good story is unfolding
HSBC – Dave, Beryl and Cathy have meeting at Barclays on 8 November and hope to open an account there for the group. If we don’t get the issue resolved by mid-December, our funds will be frozen at HSBC, and we won’t be able to access them.
Felixstowe Book Festival 2020 – since the meeting, Cathy has spoken to Florence Cox of Felixstowe Café Poets, and she is on board with all three groups working together for the FBF
No homework, but fourteen entries for the Bill Budner competition!
In Beryl’s absence, Kay joined Cathy as reader for the session – many thanks to her for that. The variety and quality of competition entries truly surpassed all expectations, and judging at the end was extremely difficult. As usual, most of us tried to guess who had written which piece – and this evening we mostly failed abysmally! It was as if every writer had deliberately changed their style, voice, and favoured topics; the results were amazing.
Jane Bailey came a very well deserved first with ‘Breaking the
Silence’
Martin was next with ‘Monkey’
New member Jane Hutton took third place with ‘Singing for
health’
Other entries were:
Derek – You will not see Christmas
Justin – Do not pass go
Carole – Decluttering
David – The Lighthouse
Kay – Death in the morning
Jim – Wallis
Liliane – Fatal inheritance
Dave – Young and stupid
Cathy – Sailing the Silk Road
Georgina – Reservations
Liz – Mind the gap
Next meeting:
5 November (NOTE – THREE WEEKS AWAY).
Another competition – this one the spooky/magic/Halloween story for the crystal ball trophy in memory of Mairead. Shorter stories this time – 750 words maximum. Work to be printed on one side only, with no identifying details on, and in a font size no smaller than 12. Pages stapled/paper clipped together. Entries to placed face down on the table. Entries will be read out by two readers for judging by members.
