Author: Seamus
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Riverside Writers and Rochdale Writes Online Group
Thursday 10th September 10am -12noon – Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside On Thursday this week our session will be led by Glenis Meeks. Glenis is known for her lovely descriptive writing and the session is sure to be full of inspiration and chances to create new work and, for those that wish, to share…
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Riverside Writers (Rochdale) and Poetry Café (Littleborough)
Riverside Writers – Thurs 3rd September, 10am to 12noon, Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside This week our session features a workshop from Eileen Earnshaw looking at Creating Characters. The session will focus on writing fiction and particularly how to create and build effective and believable characters for your stories. There will be plenty of…
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Riverside Writers and Rochdale Writes ONLINE Writing Group
Riverside Writers Thursday 27th August – 10am-12noon – Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside This week our session features a workshop from Ray Stearn titled ‘Countryside Writing’. Rays session will use the life and poetry off John Clare for inspiration. We will look at and discuss some examples and take the inspiration into new writing…
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‘Somebody give this heart a pen’ – Thursday 20th August
Riverside Writers – 10am-12noon – Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside This week our session features a workshop from Sue Smith titled ‘Somebody give this heart a pen’. The title, borrowed from a book, refers to writing about our feelings, writing from the heart. We will talk about how creative writing can be a positive…
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Riverside Writers, Rochdale Writes, & an opportunity for young writers
Riverside Writers – Thursday 13th August This week the Riverside Writers session, 10am to 12noon, in Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, will be led by Seamus Kelly. The session will be themed on objects that Seamus will bring from home for inspiration and discussion with plenty of opportunities to write and share your work.…
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Riverside Writers – Mark Rothwell workshop
Riverside Writers – Thursday 13th August This week the Riverside Writers session, 10am to 12noon, in Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, will be led by Mark Rothwell. The session will be took at ways of understanding all forms of creative art and will draw inspiration and discussion from various pieces with plenty of opportunities…
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Riverside Writers – Writing in Context
Riverside Writers, Thurs 30th July 10am-12noon Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale This week Eileen Earnshaw will lead a workshop titled “Writing in Context”. As creatives the nature of what we write will be affected by where and when we live. In this workshop Eileen will look to writers working in the period between…
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Heaven is a Place on Earth
10am to 12noon, Thursday 23rd July, Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside This week Ray Stearn will be leading a workshop with the theme “Heaven is a Place Earth” – whether a reference to Belinda Carlisle or something else (I’m voting for something else) we are sure to have an enjoyable morning with plenty of…
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Online Group and Riverside Writers weekly session
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in Blog, Event, Fiction, Flash, Group, Open mic, performance, Poetry, Prose, Spoken word, Uncategorized, Workshops, WritingRiverside Writers – Thursday 16th July 10am – 12noon, Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale Riverside Writers this week will be a chance to learn and improve skills for reading (performing) your work to an audience and using a microphone. The session will be delivered by Seamus and Eileen and is a great chance…
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Roch-Tales – Thurs 9th July – Places Still Available
The Ukrainian Club, 15 Mere Street, Rochdale 6.30pm to 9.00pm Apologies for a 3rd post in a couple of days – but this promises to be a great event with some very highly regarded short story writers. There are still plenty of spaces available so can either book online with the following link, or encourage…
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Poetry Café CANCELLED
Following our earlier post and emails, we have received a message from the café that the Poetry Café for 9th July has had to be cancelled at short notice due to staffing issues. Poetry Café takes a Summer break in August so there will be no session in that month. I will send out information…
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Writing in Rochdale this week
1 – Poetry Café, Tues 7th July – 6.00 to 8.00pm – Coffee on the Corner, Littleborough Poetry café is an open mic style poetry event held on the first Tuesday of the month (please note there will be no session in August). All are welcome either to read some of their poetry, or favourite…
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Mystery Object – Maggie Kelly
Thursday 2nd July, 10am – 12noon Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale This week at Riverside Writers, Maggie Kelly will be bringing along a mystery object which will be sure to encourage discussion and help to inspire some new pieces of creative writing. All you need for this session is your writing materials, your…
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Apologies – the earlier post should have referred to: Online – 23rd June and Riverside – 25th June
Please take note of the correct dates as shown above.
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Limericks (really this time) and Online Writing Group
Rochdale Writes – Online Writing Group – 23rd June – 6.30 to 8.00pm The next meeting of the Rochdale Writes online group will be this coming Tuesday – 23rd June, 6.30pm – 8.00pm. There will be some inspiration, writing prompts and the chance to share what is created. The session is free of charge, and…