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HALL HORRORS

Apologies to all members for the sudden and unexpected change of venue for the last meeting. Unfortunately at the last hour the hall rejected our booking leaving no time to contact all members, so apologies to all those who could not get to the meeting in February! As we have been excommunicated and cannot meet at St Catherine's Church Hall a new hall has had to be hastily found as near as possible to Wimborne Town Centre.

(Would it be an idea to suggest a 'cascade or pyramid' phone call system in case an emergency arises in the future? Each person would phone one person and so on to let everyone know of any potential changes - this would save one person 25 phone calls. What do you think?)

AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS ...

We now have a venue accepted at Colehill Memorial Hall, Middlehill Rd, Colehill (Next to the Library and First School).

I think this hall will prove to be a superior Venue - it is much bigger for group work, we have it to ourselves - so part on down! There is a large car park, disabled access and toilets, a large kitchen and even a stage if anyone feels the urge to perform! ...And we have it booked for the year!

Wimborne Writers from now on will meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month - so the next meeting will be held on Wednesday 21st March at 7.30 pm at Colehill Memorial Hall.

TRANSPORT TROUBLES

We understand some people preferred a Wimborne venue as they have difficulty with transport - the rest of us all travel through Wimborne and would gladly share lifts. So please contact me (Tracy) on the number below and I will ensure you are put in contact with someone who has offered to do this.

FEBRUARY MEETING

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS

Wimborne Writers would like to welcome Trisha McGarry, Keigh Jones and Gail Boothman to the group and look forward to seeing them in March.

DRAFT PROGRAMME

Dave, Tracy and Mike have proposed a draft programme for the year, which was agreed upon at the meeting, this will be available in March. If anyone has any Author contacts we are still looking for someone to fill a November date so please let us know if you can help.

PUT IN YOUR DIARY ...

NEXT PROGRAMME DATE - Wednesday 21st March

John Jenkins from Writers International will be giving a half-hour talk on 'Self Publishing'. He will be available for questions and informal chats with members afterwards. Group work will continue if time allows.

WIMBORNE WRITERS WILLING VOLUNTEERS COME FOWARD

Thanks to ...

Paul Lipscome - Financial editor(Paul will be collecting subs, ensuring all monies are accounted for and paying the hall bill)

Peter Strudwick - Librarian (Peter will be maintaining our library of literary magazines and a system for members to borrow magazines etc.)

Anne Robinson - Key Holder (has volunteered to pick up the key each month and open up the hall for us)

Social Editor - We had a volunteer come forward for this and I didn't write down the name - sorry, please come forward again! (Has volunteered to look out any interesting literary events happening in the area which may interest members for a social evening out)

Steering Group - at the moment Dave, Mike and Tracy are doing this but all have busy full time jobs - so if anyone would like to help with this please come foward.

HAS ANYONE A BURNING DESIRE .........

To write the next newsletter??? Good practice for budding journalists - if anyone would like to write the March newsletter or any other please let me know - I can help with photocopying and distribution. Tracy.

Newsletter Contributions

If anyone would like their set piece of writing or poem to be distrubited to members via the newsletter please send or better still, email it to me and I will put it into the newsletter.

NAWG

Wimborne Writers have subscribed to NAWG (The National Association of Writers' Groups). The benefits are as follows ...

- group membership pack
- magazines
- information on competitions
- information on the festival
- general information about groups
- list of groups in our area

They have invited us to write a piece about Wimborne Writers - would anyone like to volunteer to write up a small editorial for this?

GOODBYE BEGINNERS ... HELLO WRITERS

Mike will no longer be leading a beginners group during our meeting to give beginners the chance to mingle and take part in various sub groups. Anyone wishing to pursue a creative writing course with Mike please let him know and he will be able to run a course on a separate night.

SHORT STORIES GROUP - Set piece for February Meeting 500 word short story - 'A Heart Rending Story'

Each person of the group will be writing a piece and sending it to a 'buddy' who will be reading it and writing a critique on it - guidelines for writing a critique are enclosed on a separate leaflet. This is to be done before the next meeting.

POETRY GROUP

Set themselves a piece entitlted 'Death' with a humour slant ... hmmmm!

LET THE WRITING COMMENCE!

Wimborne Writers have now organized a programme, venue, dealt with administrative issues and have a number of people helping to make it a successful and intersting meeting place for writers. So in the future we will be able to concentrate on being creative and a productive litarary outlet for the Wimborne area.

Look forward to seeing you all on the 21st March at Colehill.

Newsletter compiled by Tracy Whitham and Paul Lipscombe

Tel: Tracy: 01202 880388 at home or 01202 886201 ext. 2012 at work for any queries.

Contact details:

Mike Wise
Apt 5
Rydal House
22 St John's Hill
Wimborne
Dorset BH21 1DD, UK
Tel: 01202 841873
Fax: 01202 841873
Email: em.wise@virgin.net or
Email: TCooper@EastDorsetDC.gov.uk

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