The latest MicroMonday challeng...

The new prompt for the WhatsApp group is:

"I could never trust somebody who..."

Up to 200 words for your stories that should be posted direct onto our pages. Deadline day is

 Monday 17th May.

Your latest Repository Prompt.

The current prompt is to write a story with a link to a board game.

It could be related to the name of a board game- draughts, monopoly, scrabble, sorry or any other you can think of, or it could be inspired by a scene where a board game is part of the action. You could take the rules of the game and apply it to the characters in the story. Take this prompt wherever you like!

Below is a link to a website listing some of the most popular board games, but there will be many that you may remember that are not listed…

https://www.listchallenges.com/92-best-board-games-of-all-time/list/

There is no word limit, and, as ever, if this prompt takes you somewhere entirely different, your story is still welcome!

Send your stories to Georgina by 18th May.

Stay safe and keep scribbling!!!

New Micro Monday prompt.

 The new Micro Monday prompt is :-

"Limitless."

Guess what? There's a 200 word limit yet again!

Please post your stories direct to our WhatsApp pages by Monday 26th April.

New Repository prompt will follow in due course.

Micro Monday prompt

 A little bit late this week but hey, it's better late than never!

This week's prompt is:

"Wakey, Wakey."

Your stories should be no more than 200 words long and be posted direct to the WhatsApp page by Monday 19th April.

Good luck everyone!

Tuesday's update

Now in their 15th year the International Welsh Poetry Competition is the biggest in Wales and is now open and accepting entries.  To enter please click here.

Award-winning poet Kathy Miles is judging this year.  Kathy is a previous winner of the Bridport Prize as well as the Welsh Poetry, Second Light, Penfro and Wells Literature Festival Poetry competitions.

1st Prize - £500
2nd Prize - £250
3rd Prize - £100

Closing date: 6th June 2021.

We shall also be producing an anthology of the winners from the years 2017-2021.

Entry forms and all other details on our website - www.welshpoetry.co.uk
 

This gives us an opportunity to mention David's suggestion that we incorporate a poetry homework sometime during the year. What do you think? I think it is a brilliant suggestion.

David has sent some sad news to us. Penny Cutler, a former chairperson of the Felixstowe Café Poets passed away at her home a few days ago. Thoughts go to her husband, relatives and friends.

Scribblers WhatsApp prompt for the week as usual is for a maximum of 200 words on "Doctor's Orders." Your stories to be posted directly onto the WhatsApp pages by Monday 12th April.

The theme for our Repository story is for a :-

Story based on a Biography, Autobiography or Memoir.

Whether you feel inspired to write something from your own life, or the life someone else, we want to read some interesting tales from real life.

Historic, heroic or modern, everyday happenings, be inspired by a life lived large or small.

There is no word limit, and no limitations on genre or style.

Email all contributions to Georgina by 20th April please.

Good luck everyone.

Stay safe, keep smiling and, don't forget, keep scribbling!

Always check your junk mail...look what I found in mine!

Just found an interesting email hidden away in my junk mail. Good job I check from time to time. The email comes from the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket and reads:

I’m Miranda, and I work in the marketing team at the John Peel Centre in Stowmarket.

This month, we’re launching a new initiative called JPC Create, which is designed to promote and celebrate creative work being done in East Anglia. While we’re mostly known for music programming at the moment, JPC Create will embrace everything - from creative writing, comedy and theatre, to visual art and dance.

I’m getting in touch because a big part of our plan is a regular writing competition, which is due to launch for the first time in April. The details will be released soon, but the important bits are -

The competition will be based around a prompt, and is open to poetry and short fiction up to 1,000 words.

It’s free to enter, and although we are not currently able to offer monetary awards, there will be prizes for the winners, as well as a permanent listing of winning entries on our website, and promotion via social media and our newsletter. Writers will retain full rights to all winning submissions.

We realise that this is a small competition and a new initiative, and while we of course plan for it to grow, the heart of the project lies in our amazement at the incredible creative work being done even under today’s intensely challenging circumstances, and a desire to encourage and celebrate that.

We will also be running regular, fun opportunities for people to create new work and share their experiences, and to hopefully to increase their feeling of connection to our local creative community.

If you or any members of your group might be interested in taking part, please feel free to share this email, our Instagram - @jpccreate / https://www.instagram.com/jpc_create/, Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jpccreate, or website - https://www.johnpeelcentre.com/jpc-create/. You can also get in touch with me at jpccreate@johnpeelcentre.com any time.

Thank you!

Miranda Overett.

This all sounds very interesting!

Dave.

Easter time.

 Happy Easter Scribblers!

A late advice about the Micro Monday prompt... which is:-

"Nuts and Bolts."

Georgina says it is a strict 200 word assignment and should be posted on the WhatsApp group page by Easter Monday or, 5th April to be exact!

Meanwhile the Repository Soundbite theme is extended until Tuesday next, 6th April when a new prompt will be issued.

Despite these two assignments, I hope you all get plenty of time to yourselves this weekend and, hopefully, can re-unite with family and friends now the lockdown is being eased. Perhaps this may become a step closer to Felixstowe Scribblers meeting up again. Won't that be great when we can? Then the old writing habits will, hopefully, return to the heights of all those glorious words that have been written and read out in the past. Practise, they say, makes perfect so why not start your own practise with stories on either WhatsApp or the Repository? We'd love to see you posting there.

That's it for now. I've got to go see if I can find an Easter Egg somewhere but, methinks, some hopes!

Happy Easter!