One page screenwriting competition, free to enter, lots of goodies for the winner including a very good chance it will be filmed:
http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/ehome/LSF2011/competitions/screenplay
One page only! You have to be able to do that! Start writing today!
The meeting went well last night. Several people asked about the meeting this evening (Thursday) for just writing and no talking – when, where etc, so, as it doesn’t yet have a proper web site of its own here are the detailsMeeting starts at 7pm (note: an hour earlier than the Writers’ Circle meetings). It is at the ETNA Centre, 13 Rosslyn Road, TW1 2AR, on the corner of Riverdale Road.
From Richmond you go over Richmond Bridge, go past shops etc and turn right at the lights (the first set if you ignore crossing lights). If driving there is a car park in what was once the garden accessed via Riverdale Road. If coming by train St Margarets is the closest station.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=13+rosslyn+road+tw1&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&vpsrc=0
(No idea why the Streetview works but the map doesn’t. Anyway, click link above for map.)
Tonight there is NO CHARGE, but please try to make it for the whole time (i.e. until 10pm) – this is what really makes the difference. Try it and you will see.
A couple of members of the group have mentioned The Writers’ Workshop and their forthcoming Getting Published Event. Some people thrive on this sort of thing and have met agents that went on to represent them! Then again it is £185 for one day (and that’s the ‘early bird’ price – it may go up) which seems a lot to others. Lots of useful stuff on the web site, and free, so don’t complain!
There’s something else literary you might like to do (unfortunately on the same day – 15th October) which is visit the Diamond Light Synchrotron near Oxford. To answer the question in all your minds, it is literary because they are giving tours (free!) to anyone who is interested in taking part in their short story (3000 words) and flash fiction (300 words) competitions, which have to be inspired by the place, its staff, science or anything related. There is a dedicated web site for the comp: www.light-reading.org. It doesn’t have to have science in it or anything. It can be any genre you like. (Though historical dramas would be hard, unless it was very, very recent history. Then again quarks have been around since the dawn of time itself. Okay, arguably since just after the dawn of time itself, for those with a pedantic geek leaning.)
Then we have our own little competition for Halloween coming up soon. Click around the site for details of past ones, or watch out for a post here (tip: put your e-mail in the box near the top right and you’ll get notified of new posts including the competition.)
So, Parish Rooms tonight for feedback, writing in ETNA just over the bridge tomorrow.
Bee seeing you!
PS ‘Quark’, as a name, is said to have been inspired by a line in Ulysses. Or Finnegan’s Wake. Anyway, something by James Joyce. Or someone like him.
Back to the Parish Rooms for regular meetings this Wednesday. We’ll be reading samples of our work and offering each other criticism (constructive only, remember!) and no drinking unless you come to the pub after.
If you’d like somewhere to write without reading out there is a spin off group starting the following night very nearby: Richmond Room for Writers. No reading out there – just writing (and maybe tea/coffee and the pub afterwards as usual.) Bring pen and paper (or computer) and your imagination, leave the woes of the world behind, and write.
Then you can read it out next week at the Richmond Writer’s Circle, and we’ll tell you how wonderful it is!
Over the years Richmond Writers’ Circle has produced a couple of anthologies of members’ work. We’ve just uncovered a few rare copies, still in mint condition.
Originally for sale around the six quid mark, we’ve noticed that someone is trying to sell a copy of one of them on Amazon for over £40! And others are going for the bargain rare of just £15! Being more concerned to get our writing out there than turn a quite such a massive profit as that, we’ve put our copies for sale on the ubiquitous on line book shop for a far more reasonable rate. See here. (We’d love you to order from a local book shop though, but we do realise the convenience of t’internet.)
PS Don’t forget were at the Princes Head tonight, and then back to the Parish Rooms next week.
Just a reminder that, since 30 days hath Sept, Apr, Jun & Nov, all the rest have 31 (excl Feb etc) which means that tomorrow is still August at time of writing and hence we will be in the Princes Head from 8pm. Did you know that before 9pm you can get quite a good dinner there? The following week we will be back in the Parish Rooms. You can’t get any food there but you do get to read out your work.
The Tea Box theteabox.co.uk a nearby tea house, has been in touch. Here’s what they had to say:
I’m just getting in touch as I thought that as a local writers group, the members of Richmond Writers Circle might be interested in the storytelling event happening this Friday at 7.30pm at the Tea Box.
‘Tales of Richmond’ is a unique storytelling experience from Head2Head Theatre, a collection of performative stories based around the lives of famous figures who made Richmond their last place of residence. It should be very interesting and entertaining for a local group, such as yourself.
If any of your members might be interested in coming along they can book by phone (0208 940 3521) or in person at the shop, which is only a stone’s throw away from your meeting place on Church Walk. Tickets are £6.
If you could share these details at your writers meeting tomorrow I’d be very grateful.
James Webster
Assistant Manager
The Tea Box
7 Paradise Road
Richmond, Surrey
TW9 1RX
t: 020 8940 3521
A bit of a flog to Stoke Newington from Richmond, but we thought you may be interested anyway. This Sunday (the 28th of August) one of our regulars is going to be one of the people giving a reading at “Storytails“…
For adults who miss being read to, Storytails presents both sparkly new and solidly accomplished writers to share their unusual tales with you.
Held on the last Sunday of every month from 3pm to 5pm at :
The Drop, below The Three Crowns pub
Stoke Newington, London N16 0LH
FREE ENTRY*
*(Donations towards the running of the event are welcome. Profits for this month only will be given to local charity Off Centre www.offcentre.org.uk)
