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SCBWI – Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Posted on 25 July, 2010 by Susan K Franklin

British SCBWI is celebrating 10 years of supporting and encouraging Children’s book writers and illustrators with their third conference. This year the conference is being held between the 13 -14 November 2010, at The Stripe complex, King Alfred Campus, University … Continue reading →

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Winchester 2010

Posted on 10 July, 2010 by Susan K Franklin

Winchester 2010 with Plenary Speaker Sir Terry Pratchett OBE This year the Winchester Writers’ Conference was celebrating 30 years of inspiring, encouraging and educating aspiring authors. The conference ran over three days. During this time workshops, seminars, networking, midnight reads … Continue reading →

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Welsh men might be offended

Posted on 30 March, 2010 by Ian Cundell

Our chum Imran Ahmad shares his experience of visiting the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai.  And possibly offends half the Welsh nation at the same time.

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I’ll be the judge of that

Posted on 14 March, 2010 by Sandra Norval

This week saw the adjudication of the annual President’s Competition, one of the four regular competitions open to our members. Back in January during one of the many bouts of freezing weather Nick Cook,  VWC President, set the theme as ‘Snow’. The story … Continue reading →

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The Get Writing 2010 Conference Cup

Posted on 6 March, 2010 by Ian Cundell

In all the post-Get Writing 2010 hubbub, I’ve just noticed that we completely forgot to record the result of the Get Writing Short Story competition. As a wise man once said: oops. So, for the record: GW10 was  the first … Continue reading →

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GW10 – A sell-out success

Posted on 22 February, 2010 by Jenny Barden

I’d like to thank everyone involved in ‘Get Writing 2010′, and I do mean ‘everyone’ – from our fantastic speakers and leaders, to the University of Hertfordshire, the VWC ‘Get Writing’ team, and every single delegate who attended. The measure … Continue reading →

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Get Writing 2010: Don’t take our word for it

Posted on 20 February, 2010 by Ian Cundell

Helen J Beal has been most generous with her praise

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Top editors at Get Writing 2010

Posted on 7 February, 2010 by Jenny Barden

Lest you may not have heard, two of the UK’s leading editors will be at the VWC’s ‘Get Writing’ Conference at the University of Hertfordshire on Saturday 20th February… ‘Step aside, JK Rowling and Ian McEwan,’ says Richard Brooks in … Continue reading →

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Interview with Vanessa Gebbie

Posted on 3 February, 2010 by Jon Pinnock

As I’m sure everyone out there is already aware, the illustrious Vanessa Gebbie is coming to our forthcoming Get Writing 2010 conference to present a workshop on short story writing. Just to whet your appetites, here’s an interview that I … Continue reading →

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The Rhinoceros in The Room

Posted on 11 January, 2010 by Oscar Windsor-Smith

Two excellent short stories by prolific VWC writer Jonathan Pinnock and a couple by a certain other nondescript, also of this parish (modesty forbids), appear in the Rhinoceros in question, details here. scar

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