Directory of Writers' Circles, Courses and Workshops 2008Hastings Writers' Group
Chairman: Ken Baker
Our membership is currently somewhere around the 35 mark. We are a friendly crowd with wide-ranging interests, some of us published, some still aspiring to be. Meetings are held fortnightly on Monday evenings. We are an active group, running a national short story competition, the The Legend Writing Award, and also producing an annual anthology, Strandline. Strandline has become an established and popular anthology, showcasing the work of Hastings’ Writers’ Group. It contains an imaginative and creative mix of prose and poetry and also now include winning entries from the Legend Writing Award. We are very proud that previous volumes of Strandline have won national awards: Volume 3 won the David St John Thomas Charitable Trust anthology award and Volume 4 won the NAWG Denise Robertson Trophy for the best writers’ group anthology. Our latest, Strandline Volume 6, is available at £7.50, post-free, from HWG, 39 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, TN34 3LB. Cheques should be made payable to Hastings Writers' Group. We are currently working on Volume 7, with a publication date aimed at late November. To mark our Diamond Anniversary year we have compiled and published an extra and separate charity anthology Diamonds – A Collection of Childhood Memories. Sixty adults and six children, ranging from senior citizens to a seven-year old, have contributed a rich variety of reminiscences. They encompass memories of wartime, the Coronation, school, family life, friends, activities, coping with a disability, living abroad, growing up and childhood today. Sales will benefit three charities working with children who are in care, visually impaired or who have life-limiting illnesses. This is available at £6.50 post free (optional additional donations of £1 towards p & p will mean more for the charities) from HWG, 39 Emmanuel Road, Hastings, TN34 3LB. Cheques to be payable to Hastings Writers’ Group – Diamond a/c. For more details about us, our activities and our publications please visit our website www.hastingswriters.co.uk
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