Shorelink Community Writers
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Objectives
SCW is a community writing and publishing group which is open to all, but particularly welcomes people who need to develop confidence in expressing themselves.
We encourage our members to find their own voice and experiment with new writing methods and styles. We aim to provide a safe and supportive environment, which enables our members to build their social skills, confidence, and self-esteem.
We promote personal development and offer all our members the opportunity to be actively involved in the running of the group and provide the training and support to enable them to do so.
Activities
We have three groups (see below) which meet weekly and we also have occasional workshops run by well-known authors. In addition we arrange visits to the annual Federation of Worker writers & Community publishers (now The Fed) festival. In 2004 and 2006 we staged our own free mini-fests (see not quite so far below).
IMPORTANT NOTICE
SHORELINK MINIFEST POSTPONED
Shock news, this years Minifest has been postponed till March 2009... More details when they become available. In the meantime, tell your friends that you are now have an opening in your calendar on the 4th October for any party/celebration they may want to undertake, but any wild shenanigins at the end of March are out.
IMPORTANT NOTICE 2
ANTHOLOGY PROJECT ABANDONED
We have been forced to abandon our project to publish an anthology of short stories due to problems with finance and staffing levels. Anyone who has a question or would like their work returned, please click on the link below...
NEW FED MINI-FEST
A One Day Event of Reading, Writing and Performance-Related Workshops, and an evening of Celebratory Reading open to all is being planned to take place on Saturday November 1st or 8th 2008.
You can e-mail Lucia Birch luciabirch53@yahoo.co.uk
or Ashley Jordan at jordana@screaming.net
or Dave at dave@aandc.nildram.co.uk
Watch this space for more news, or go to http://www.fedonline.org.uk/fed
Lillian's Story
Lillian's Story is a novel written by our own Sally Gardner It was published on 27th February 2007 by The Book Guild and launched at The London Book Fair. It's a cracking good read and you can find out more about it by Clicking Here or you can buy a copy by clicking on the link to Amazon below.
Breeze
A new music sensation has just emerged from the smouldering cauldron of creativity that is Sidley (it's near Bexhill). Breeze are what I believe are known as a 'Beat Combo' consisting of Alvin ('The Unknown Poet') Culzac, Tony ('The Colonel') May and Susan E ('The Singer') Butchers. The band are regular performers at Bar Blue every second Thursday of each month and are extremely popular. You can check out their music on 'From Sidley With Love' and if you like what you hear you can buy and download the tracks for a startlingly low price!
Shorelink Minifest '06
Our most recent Minifest, '06, took place on 30th September 2006, at The Pheonix Arts Centre, and was a great success. To see photos of the workshops, and Open Mic performance evening, Click Here.
Or you can see the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers pictures Here
The day started at 9.30 am and went right through till 11.00 pm and it was all free! The evening performance was open to everybody and started at 7.30 pm with a talk by The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, Followed by songs and dances by members of Respond, and songs and readings by many of the workshop attendees, including a percussive performance by the people who attended the days drumming workshop.
To find out how our first Minifest went, Click Here for our Minifest '04 page
NEW SPOTLIGHT!
Spotlight is a page devoted to highlighting one of our members and their work. This month we are featuring Josie Lawson. To see her work, as well as previous Spotlights, Click Here
Groups
The Monday Evening group:
Meets every Monday evening from 7:30 till 9:30 at Marlborough House, Warrior Square
The Tuesday Morning group:
Meets from 10:00 till 12:00 in Hastings Children's Library during school term time
The Friday Group:
Meets from 12:00 till 2:00 Friday afternoons at Shorelink Underground, 2 Church Road, St Leonards on Sea
Attendance is free for the Monday and Tuesday groups (though a small donation would be gratefully received) and a fee of £10 a term is charged by The University of Sussex for the Shorelink Writing Course. All are welcome.
Contacts
If you would like to find out more about Shorelink or any of it's groups or activities you can contact the group leaders below:
The Monday Evening group: Frank Kennedy
The Tuesday Morning Group: Ashley Jordan
The Friday Group: Pat Tomlinson
Other Information?
If you are interested in finding out more about us there are examples of member's work and information about some of the activities we undertake just follow the links above to the other pages, or:
If you have any general questions about our group you can email us at
Or you can click on the link below to go to our feedback form and let us know what you think of our site or request any additional information on our activities
If you would like to see more of our day to day activities you can join our internal group website at Yahoo!
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Finally, here are some Useful Sites that we hope will amuse and inform, or at least not bore you too much.
