Saturday Writing Community

The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Welcome to our Saturday writing community meeting. Our monthly Saturday afternoon at The Playwright returns for 2024, and we hope you'll join us. Arrive early, 12.30 pm, and enjoy time to have lunch and chat, before the meeting begins at 1.30. Last month, the members agreed the writing challenge subject for January will be: Don't […]

Free

Friday Writing

The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham
£5

February- Saturday Session

The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Join us for our February, Saturday session in the poets corner room at The Playwright. This month, the writing challenge theme is Botanical Gardens; a piece of prose up to 800 words, or a poem on the given subject. It's not compulsory to do this to attend, so come along and hear the resulting works. […]

Free

Friday at The Mechanics

The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham

Details to follow

£5

Mini Workshop – Story Shapes…

The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham

Join us for our fourth Friday meeting at the Nottingham Mechanics, where we're continuing our mini workshop focussing on story shapes. In January, we created our protagonist's normal, and moved onto the inciting incident, where the story ramps up. For February we're moving on, as we take our chosen character on their new journey, with […]

£5

Saturday at The Playwright…

The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Our Saturday at the Playwright, meeting begins at 12.30 pm and goes on to 4.30, but we're flexible with arrival and departure times. For our March session, the voluntary homework is to write a piece of prose up to 800 words, or a poem- if that's your preference. The theme is, Feud. Arrive early to […]

Free

We’re Meeting at The Mechanics…

The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham

Join us from 1 pm to 4.30 pm as we're meeting at the Nottingham Mechanics for our regular fourth Friday, in the Boardroom on the first floor (lift available). From 1 pm we'll be giving time to manuscript reading for constructive comments- poetry and prose. You can ask writing questions if you need to, and […]

£5

Second Saturday Meeting…

The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Our April second Saturday meeting at The Playwright, is focusing on the theme of disguise/disguises. We're a mixed age, and ability, group of writers- both NWC members and non-members. From 12.30-1.30 pm, there's time to eat, chat, and get to know other writers. Then, 1.30 we move onto listening to the poetry and prose written […]

Free

Meeting

The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham
£5

Meeting at The Playwright…

The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Come along to our second Saturday in May meeting at The Playwright Craft Pub, in Nottingham city centre. We're building a writing community, whether you're a new writer, experienced, or somewhere between the two. We believe we all benefit by sharing our knowledge and abilities in a positive friendly group. This month, the homework theme […]