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June: Friday at the Nottingham Mechanics
The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, NottinghamIt's our June fourth Friday at the Nottingham Mechanics from 1 pm onward. For the first 75 minutes there's time for reading your work for feedback, catching up with other writers, and sharing your news. Then, from 2.30 pm we focus on a specific writing topic, from those requested by members earlier in the year. […]
Second-Saturday Meeting at The Playwright
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomJoin us for July second Saturday meeting at The Playwright pub. All are welcome to our informal and varied afternoon session, where you can meet and chat with friendly, welcoming writers. The writing challenge for this month is to write a story around 800 words, and combining the themes of the paranormal and artificial intelligence […]
Second Saturday in September
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomOur September second Saturday meeting at The Playwright, and this is the first of our autumn meetings. The Saturday meetings allows time to chat, write, and if you've done the fun homework- read it out, or not. Arrive at 12.30 to get lunch, a drink, and chat with other early arrivals. Then from 1.30 pm […]
Saturday Writing Community
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomWelcome 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 […]
February- Saturday Session
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomJoin 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. […]
Mini Workshop – Story Shapes…
The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, NottinghamJoin 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 […]
Saturday at The Playwright…
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomOur 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 […]
Second Saturday Meeting…
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomOur 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 […]
Meeting at The Playwright…
The Playwright 38 Shakespeare Street, Nottingham, United KingdomCome 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 […]
Halloween Friday
The Nottingham Mechanics Institute 3 North Sherwood Street, NottinghamWe hope you'll join us for our Halloween fourth Friday session where we'll be writing ghosts. As usual, we'll start the afternoon with our manuscript reading session for constructive comments, before a short break and onto our focus topic session. It's October, and as our meeting takes place just before Halloween, we'll be all about […]