The Back to Basics workshops* led by Wendy* and myself at the Library in Bishop Auckland are proving very popular. We have a great group of over 20 writers, who work hard every week. There’s no reading out just lots of writing and talk about writing which is proving fascinating and far from basic. Next week we will be looking at writing memoir and offering a unique method for beginning the journey of writing about our own lives.
This week in my newsletter I’ve featured a memoir competition – 2,500 words of memoir inspired by or set within a garden. It’s a new competition with literary judges and great prizes including publication in Granta magazine. If you’d like to know more about how and where to enter you can sign up for my FREE newsletter on the right.
* We make no charge to the library for running these workshops. This is in order to demonstrate our commitment to library services in Bishop Auckland at a time of threat.
*Wendy’s own memoir and book on writing, The Romancer can be found here – it’s beautifully constructed and as well as being a wonderful read there is much to learn here about the writing life.
