On the 8th October 2016, the Oldbury Writing Group will be taking part in the West Bromwich at War event at the Central Library. The event starts at 11 am, and we will be reading out a selection of poems and short stories from our World War Two…
On the 11th June 2016, I went to see the Our Shakespeare Exhibition at the Library of Birmingham with my writing group. When I heard about the exhibition opening, I thought it would be a great trip idea for the writing group. And with me getting back into…
When I started editing my novel, I never thought it would take a year before I finished the second draft. I often sit and wonder what I was doing in all that time. But the only answer I have is that editing (if you want to do it…
On 13th May 2016, my writing group and I went to watch the play Private Lives by Noël Coward. Due to our next planned project (writing a play), we decided it would be a great idea to go and watch as many plays as we could. So when…
On 7th May, my writing group and I went to the Museum of Cannock Chase’s VE Day event. As my writing group is writing a World War Two anthology, we thought it would be great for our research to go to this event, and we were proved right.…
Last month I went to the PowWow Festival of Writing (2025 Update: the festival no longer runs). Again, I went with my writing group, and we had a brilliant time. However, the weather wasn’t great, but thankfully we were under the heated marquee to keep off the chill…
Last Saturday my writing group held a Mad Hatter’s tea party book festival to celebrate World Book Night. As always, we had a brilliant time, and we had a decent turnout for the event. The event started with a poetry reading by Ian Henery. We also had the…
Last week Friday, my writing group and I went on our first trip of the year. We went to meet local (local to us) author Angela Marsons at Cradley Heath library. Angela Marsons is the author behind the successful D.I. Kim Stone crime thriller series, and has since…
The one thing I have noticed a lot about being a writer is that you never know what’s around the corner. And last week proved this to me. So what happened last week? Well, I had a big surprise. (If you follow me on Twitter or see my…
I sit here looking out at a crisp blue sky wondering what 2016 has in store for me. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was preparing for the start of 2015; I had many plans, hopes, and dreams. Did I reach all of my goals? The…