January 14th 2012
Congratulations to Mark Bigg for his excellent piece in The Guardian's Family Section entitled, Ready Steady... We're Married!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/14/readers-favourite-photographs-songs-recipes
January 5th 2012
Well done to Rosemary Goodacre whose story In Their Image came 3rd in the Earlyworks Press Science Fiction Challenge.
January 2nd 2012
Things That Go Bump in the Night has been featured in the February issue of Writers' News. Well done Team A for your part in the great publicity campaign!
December 30th 2011
Well done to Tracy Phillips who has a letter in the latest issue (February) of Writing Magazine. A great end to 2011!
December 24th 2011
Congratulations to the students featured in the anthology Things That Go Bump in the Night for being mentioned in Writers' Forum magazine - February edition.
December 14th 2011
Congratulations to the following students for their success at our presentation event:
Pat Clarke: Student of the Year
Gerry Savill: Student most likely to succeed
Mark Bigg: Most promising newcomer
Well done to you all and good luck in 2012 to all our students!
December 1st 2011
Elaine Everest has a feature in the current Writing Magazine telling writers how to deal with deadline nightmares.
December 1st 2011
Well done to student Valerie Miller who has had a letter published in Writing Magazine this month. Val extols the virtues of joining a creative writing class. Thank you Val!
November 30th 2011
Francesca Burgess completes the 50,000 words required for the NaNoWriMo challange (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) as part of her novel Ten Years Later.
November 25th 2011
Elaine, Angela, Christine and Francesca (the self-styled 'Ladies with Laptops'), return from their week-long retreat in East Sussex, having written nearly 60,000 words between them.
November 25th 2011
Elaine Everest has reached the long list of the Harry Bowling Prize with her book, Bride of the Year. The short list is to be announced at the end of Janaury 2012. http://www.harrybowlingprize.co.uk/Harry_Bowling/2012_finalists.html
November 25th 2011
Christine Webb has a letter in the latest issue of Writers' Forum. This is the same letter that won her a first prize in last month's student competition. Well done Christine!
November 20th 2011
The Write Place open competition winners are now up on the web site.
November 20th 2011
Members of The Write Place are enjoying their one week stay at a writing retreat in deepest East Sussex. The aim is to work on their novels and drink wine. To date they have written many words, walked many miles and met ex Doctor Who, Tom Baker who is their next door neighbour!
November 18th 2011
Elaine Everest, Angela Johnson, Christine Webb and Francesca Burgess are away on a writing retreat to work on their novels. Along with student Giovanna Burgess, they are taking part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), with an aim to complete 50,000 words each in a month.
November 3rd 2011
Elaine Everest and Francesca Burgess were invited to the Westminster laboratories of the charity, Against Breast Cancer. This was in recognition of the work done with the Diamonds and Pearls anthology.
November 2011
Catherine Burrows's latest column for Vegetarian Living (January edition on sale now), covers resolutions to kick start a fresh, new year of Plan V, and after weeks of crazy excess, it's time to calm down and get veggie healthy.
November 2011
In the first week of November, Things That Go Bump In the Night goes to number 1 in 'Horror' on Amazon Kindle.
October 31st 2011
The Write Place releases its first ebook on Kindle. Things That Go Bump In The Night contains 21 scary stories including gothic horror, contemporary fiction, romance and even comedy. The anthology is available from Amazon.
October 12th 2011
Catherine Burrows is placed in the top ten of the Beautiful Britain Family Travel competition on havealovelytime.com, and is put forward for a chance to win the Readers' Choice Award.
http://havealovelytime.com/2011/10/st-davids-our-old-family-friend-by-catherine-burrows.html
Angela Johnson, Christine Webb, Francesca Burgess and Ann Webb have poems included in the Hastings based poetry magazine First Time.
Adam Bird wins a caption competition and an Ipad2. (Short pieces of writing need to be as well crafted as longer ones!)
September 29th 2011
Catherine Burrow's latest column for Vegetarian Living can be found in the November issue. This time she'll be finding new ideas for warming seasonal meals and exploring the possibility of a Christmas without meat.
September 12th 2011
Francesca's short story is published in Swedish magazine, Allas.
September 2011
The new term began on September 7th.
There's lots of TWP news from the summer holidays:
A group of students and tutors attended the annual Caerleon writers Holiday in South Wales. The 'ladies with laptops' won the literary quiz for the second year running and very miuch enjoyed the winning prize of a case of wine!
Elaine Everest tutored a course at Caerleon on How to write a Non fiction book proposal and sell the book. Over 30 students attended the course with many having sent off their book ideas armed with their new knowledge.
Pat Clarke completes the 80-day 'May You Write Your Novel' challenge (organised by Sally Quilford) A wonderful achievement.
Francesca has a short story published in the August edition of Candis.
Rosemary Goodacre wins 1st prize in La Vie Outre-Manche Writing competition, with her story 'L'exposition'. (La Vie Outre-Manche is a magazine for learners of French, so doubly well done Rosemary!)
Catherine Burrows is short-listed in the short story competitions in both Writing Magazine and Writers' News (October editions). Another double well done!
Elaine Everest, (among many other achievements!) has an article published in the October Writing Magazine and starts her own column at Our Dogs weekly newspaper, called Everest Bites Back.
July 2011
Rosemary Goodacre is Commended in the Leaf Books travel writing competition.
July 24th 2011
Elaine's third book, A New Puppy in the Family (How To Books) is published. Copies are avaialbe in all good bookshops as well as Amazon.
July 11th 2011
Francesca's story Far From Home is published in Kindle book 7 Food Stories from Rome.
June 2011
Rosemary Goodacre is shortlisted in the Writers' Toolkit flash fiction competition.
1st June 2011
Christine Webb is shortlisted in the Writers' News (July edition) short story competititon congratulations
1st June 2011
Elaine Everest has a feature on networking in the July edition of Writing Magazine.
5th May 2011
Francesca has a story published in Ireland's Own.
3rd May 2011
Today sees the launch of 100 Stories for Queensland. Two writers from The Write Place, Pat Clarke and Catherine Burrows, have stories featured in this anthology.
http://100storiesforqueensland.org/?p=191
22nd April 2011
Elaine is an invited guest on BBC Radio Five Live to discuss new ligislation on micro chipping in dogs and to promote her next book, A New Puppy in the Family (How To Books).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elaine-Everest/e/B003LTXNN8/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
18th April 2011
Francesca's short story As Tears Go By is published in Australian magazine That's Life Fast Fiction.
18th April 2011
Winning stories from the 'Winter' comp are now up on the website.
14th April 2011
The 'Winter' Competition results are up on the website.
March 19th 2011
Elaine has a story published in The Weekly News.
March 11th 2011
Elaine has been signing copies of her books, Canine Cuisine and Showing Your Dog, A Beginner's Guide at Crufts.
February 14th 2011
Elaine and Francesca speak to Heather Stott on BBC Radio Manchester and Pat Marsh on BBC Radio Kent about the anthology Diamonds and Pearls.
February 7th 2011
Pat Clarke and Catherine Burrows are selected to have their stories in the 100 Stories for Queensland anthology. Well done ladies.
February 2nd 2011
Congratulations to Christine Webb, runner-up in the Writers' News Last Line competition.
February 1st 2011
We're very excited here at The Write Place, as today sees the release of the anthology Diamonds and Pearls, conceived and compiled by Elaine Everest. It celebrates the 30th anniversary of her survival from breast cancer.
The anthology contains 34 great stories, contributed by some of the best best short story writers in the country, including eight from The Write Place.
A donation from the sale of each book will go to the charity Against Breast Cancer.
http://www.accentpress.co.uk/category-7/9781907726583.html
January 15th 2011
Catherine Burrows' book Postnatal Depression - The Essential Guide, is published this week.
http://www.need2knowbooks.co.uk/products/Postnatal-Depression-the-Essential-Guide-eBook.html
January 12th 2011
One year after the tragedy in Haiti, things are far from being back to normal. The book 100 Stories for Haiti, conceived by Greg McQueen (and with stories from Elaine and Francesca included) was published to raise funds for the Red Cross, working in Haiti.
100 Stories for Haiti is still available to buy at http://bridgehousepublishing.co.uk/default.aspx and electronically at smashwords.com. You can also buy it online at Amazon and Waterstones.
December 23rd 2010
Elaine's Christmas short story is published in The Weekly News.
December 20th 2010
Francesca is shortlisted in the Cordelia.net Rome short story competition.
December 15th 2010
Christine Webb wins The Write Place 2010 Student Most Likely to Succeed Award.
Judith Webb wins The Write Place 2010 Most Promising Newcomer Award.
December 2010
Francesca's story Where are his footprints? is published in Take a Break Fiction Feast
December 2010
Christine Webb, Elaine Everest and Francesca Burgess have all completed the NaNoWriMo challange to write 50,000 words in a month. Well done!
November 2010
Now we're in the last third of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) participants are racing to complete their 50,000 words. Four members from the Write Place have signed up, whilst the rest are furiously writing to complete 50,000 words between them.
www.nanowrimo.org
November 1st 2010
Catherine and Francesca are both placed in the top 8 short list for the 2010 Chorley and District Writers' Circle Writing Competition, 'Secrets and Lies'.
October 21st 2010
Catherine Burrows' flash fiction In Loving Memory is long listed in the Flash 500 competition.
October 20th 2010
Ann West's story The Raffle Prize is published in 'A Year With Yours', the year book for Yours magazine.
September 18th 2010
Francesca's short story Changes is published in The Weekly News.
September 14th 2010
September 2010
Classes are back and everyone is raring to go. Look out world, we have stories, poetry and novels to share with you!
July 24th 2010
A group from The Write Place attended the Caerleon Writer's Holiday in Wales. Much learning and wine consumption was enjoyed throughout the week.
It was great to meet up with so many authors and writing chums once more. We came home tired and so much richer from this fantastic writing event.
NEWS UPDATE: Elaine is honoured to have been invited to tutor a course on writing articles and non fiction books next year.
http://www.writersholiday.net/caerleon.htm
June 2010
June Crowe's runners up short story was published in the June edition of Prima Magazine. Well done!
June 25th 2010
Elaine's book Canine Cuisine was published. Congratulations!
June 19th 2010
Well done to Get Published student June Crowe whose short story 'Wheel of Fortune'was published in the 19th June edition of People's Friend Magazine.
June 17th 2010
Congratualtions to Christine Webb whose poem was shortlisted in the humorous poetry section of the Marples Poetry Competition 2010. Christine is a member of the Get Published class.
June 10th 2010
Didn't we have a lover-ly time, the day we went to... Brighton!
Well, maybe not weather wise, since it was blowing a hoolie on the promenade and definitely wasn't a day for a paddle (shame!). Still, Elaine and I felt excited as we made our way to the Brighton promotion of the book 100 Stories for Haiti, held at Waterstones on June 10th.
We arrived very early in an attempt not to be late, heading off to The Lanes for refreshment at a lovely cup cake shop called Angel Food Bakery. (Well worth a visit, and the place that inspired my story Thinking outside the cakebox, which won the student short story 'Resolutions' comp at Christmas. See, there are ideas everywhere!).
Finally the time came to make our way to Waterstones, and as accustomed as I have been to public speaking in the past, the idea of reading out my story in a book shop was quite nerve wracking. I think Elaine was quite laid back, and even had time for a 'JR Hartley' moment when she asked at the counter whether they had Showing Your Dog, A Beginner's Guide! When the assistant realised Elaine was the author, she asked her to sign it. Ain't fame great?
The gathering, thin on the ground initially, grew until the coffee shop on the third floor was bulging at the seams. We met up with writer Linda Barrett, an old friend of Elaine's, who was also quite nervous. We huddled together at the back for security.
The evening began with an introduction from Jac Cattaneo, who organised and coordinated the evening. Martin Reed then presented Greg McQueen's piece One Morning, which tells of the day Greg woke up to a report of an earthquake in Haiti and decided to do something. Greg, who conceived and saw through the100 Stories for Haiti project, sadly couldn't be with us. He made some excuse about living in Denmark. I think we all let him off, seeing as he'd sent an encouraging message that morning via a podcast on Facebook!
Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, who handles the marketing for Bridge House, the publisher of100 Stories, told us a little about her company's involvement in the project, then read her own story, Folding Paper.
There was a wide variety of different stories read, including Mugs by Tania Hershman, Linda Barrett's Updating Dora, and Lola Loves Loving by Martin Reed. After a break, Elaine and I read our stories (Waiting for Sarah and The Encounter respectively). Among the other stories were Jacob's Ladder by Rob Newlyn and Charlie Berridge's Wrong Direction.
A number of people took the opportunity to buy the books on sale, and so began a round of signings, including the writers signing each other's! Awkward when you're standing, trying to balance a bag and a drink, but we managed somehow.
After, a group of us went down the road for pizza. It was a good opportunity to talk to people who, up until that time, we'd simply shared book space with. We're all very different writers, from various locations, and it's great that we've been able to join together to do our bit to help the people of Haiti.
100 Stories for Haiti is published by Bridge House Publishing and is available from their website http://bridgehousepublishing.co.uk, along with Amazon and Waterstones. It's also available as an e-book from www.smashwords.com. All proceeds go to the Red Cross to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
June 4th 2010
Francesca is Highly Commended in the Winchester Writers' Conference Page of Prose competition.