Wordsmiths

Convenors: Peter Grehan and Wendy Barkess

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When and Where:

The Group normally meets on alternate Thursday mornings at 11 a.m. in the Monmouthshire Building Society, Queen Street.

What :

Write something, prose or poetry. Then come along and read it to a small, sympathetic group of people who are doing the same thing, and listen to their constructive comments.

It may be the first thing you’ve written since school or it may be a chapter in a book you’re writing. All get equal time and respect with us.

Creative writing for pleasure!

What Else:

We also have a WhatsApp group for the exchange of views.  Contact the convenor for details.

We choose 2-3 topics for the next meeting so as to give a focus to our efforts but members can write on whatever they like and are not constrained by these topics.

Members write short pieces or long pieces, read out excerpts from stories they are working on and want your feedback. Our only proviso is that everyone should get a chance to read in the hour and a half we have so sometimes we ask for longer pieces to be split across meetings

 

Meetings Calendar

March 2024

April 2024

Thursday 4th April

11:00 – 12:30
Wordsmiths

Thursday 18th April

11:00 – 12:30
Wordsmiths

May 2024

Latest news from the group

Connecting Who: Artificial Beings

Published 15th August 2023

 

The Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, the Daleks… the artificial beings of Doctor Who are some of the most iconic in science fiction. But what inspired them?

Connecting Who traces their origins back to the myths, folktales and real events of history; the teachings of religion; not to mention the wealth of other sci-fi writing from which Doctor Who has drawn.

by Peter Grehan
Publisher: ‎ Candy Jar Books (10 April 2017)

Connecting Who: Artificial Beings

Try your hand at some creative writing!

Published 8th March 2023

Our next meeting will be on Thursday the 9th of March from 11 am to 12:30 pm and will take place at our usual venue of the Monmouthshire Building Society.

Suggested themes are Sowing/Sewing Machines, Buses, Books or Lockweiler or anything you want to write about as usual. Lockweiler is a construct of Lock and Rottweiler so make of that what you will.

Wordsmiths group web page: https://cardiffu3a.org/groups/writers-2/.

Creative Writing Newsletter

Published 3rd September 2022

The latest creative writing newsletter from our subject adviser, Marcia Humphries, is now available.
To read the newsletter follow this link

Cardiff Castle Dragon Tale

Published 12th April 2022

by Mary and Phil Mullett

Published by Grosvenor House Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-83975-141-7

Dark-Eyed Sailor

Published 12th April 2022

Dark-Eyed Sailor
by Doug Bennie (Owen Parry)
Published 2018 Kindle Edition only

Try your hand at writing

Published 2nd March 2022

Photo by Ugur Akdemir on Unsplash

Write something, prose or poetry. Then come along and read it to a small, sympathetic group of people who are doing the same thing, and listen to their constructive comments.

It may be the first thing you’ve written since school or it may be a chapter in a book you’re writing. All get equal time and respect with us.

Writers 2 Group is the one for you!

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