| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Kay Blackwell
Tel: 01873 831566
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| When: | Fortnightly on Thursday mornings Usually fortnightly on Thursdays at 10:30 |
| Venue: | Member's Home |
To join this slightly zany but very individual group of writers, contact Kay Blackwell and join us at our next session.
We meet in convivial circumstances at members' homes, taking it in turn to host and provide the ever vital biscuits and other refreshments. We read our stories aloud usually to positive acclaim. We decline to criticise each other's work, we simply enjoy the experience.
Each session will normally have a topic chosen by the previous host and the range of different stories is often remarkable. A topic can yield a dark and brooding murder, a dog's eye view of the world or a semi-biographical tale from someone's past. Normally, a story will be between 500 and 1000 words but longer or shorter is usually fine, as long as we can fit everyone during the session which will last about one and a half to two hours.
We do poetry too and sometimes an exercise within the meeting!
Some of our recent writing prompts have been:
- A Group Outing
- An inheritance
- Jealousy
- An Anonymous Letter
- Friends
- An Adventure on the High Seas
Once a month (except in the Summer), we visit Penpergwm House, a residential care home, and read some of our stories to a group of residents there. We have enjoyed doing so and the feedback from the residents is very positive, including an indication that murder and thriller stories are their favourites.
Forthcoming Meetings & Events
Latest Posts
- Poetry Competition ResultsCongratulations to Jill Howells and Hilary Lipscombe, Winner and Runner-up respectively, in the Gilwern u3a Poetry Competition on 'Spring'. Jill's poem was judged to be "delightfully simplistic and joyous" while Hilary's was "more complex and wide-ranging." Further details
- Poetry Competition 2025 - Entry now ClosedPoetry Competition : Subject "Spring"
- Reading our stories at Penpergwm House
- SHORT STORY COMPETITIONOpen to ALL members of Gilwern u3a (except the Creative Writing Group!) TITLE: “The Best or Worst Day of my life”
- Creative Writing Advisor on u3a Radio podcast
Marcia Humphries, the national adviser for Creative Writing for u3as, is interviewed in this podcast and mentions the Gilwern u3a member who won the short story competition in 2022/3. See minute 21 in the podcast to hear about the 'outstanding' story and its writer.