Author: Seamus
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Workshop – I Come From
26th September 2024 This Thursday the Riverside Writers session will be a poetry/spoken word workshop titled “I come from” delivered by Seamus Kelly. We will discuss the theme, which encompasses time and place, family, community, dreams, and hopes and we will look at some examples of relevant writing, before creating some new work. There will…
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Special Celebration Open Mic Event 13 October 2024
Vicolo del Vino, Rochdale, 7pm Our founding member and superb poet, Eileen Earnshaw, will be celebrating her 80th birthday next month. Eileen has been involved with running a long-standing monthly open mic night in Rochdale at various locations. As from Sunday 13th October these events will have a new venue at Vicolo del Vino in…
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New Writing Development Sessions
In response to suggestions from members, Thursday 19th September 2024, sees the introduction of a new style of session for Riverside Writers. As a group we aim to encourage and support each other in creative writing and we have set a target to produce new writing and prepare it for submission to publishers. To prepare…
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Riverside Writers – new workshop – Endings
Thursday 5th September – 10am to 12noon – Rochdale Central Library Our regular weekly writing group returns from our Summer break this Thursday with a workshop on the theme of “Endings” by Eileen Earnshaw. As always all, aged 18+, are welcome. We look forward to meeting existing and new members.
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Poetry Café – new Monthly open-mic – Littleborough
18:00 – 20:00 – Coffee on the Corner -3rd September 2024 Members and followers of Riverside Writers will be interested to know that this Tuesday sees a brand new monthly poetry open mic event in Littleborough. This will be the first of a monthly event to be held on the first Tuesday of each month.…
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Summer Break
The Rivereside writers are taking a break during the month of August and look forward to recommencing our weekly sessions on Thursday mornings from the start of September. Meanwhile there is plenty of development going on with future plans and lots of time for writing. Some new pieces have been added to our sample page.…
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Riverside Writers Summer Celebration – 13th July 2024
Everyone is welcome to our celebration of Summer and creative writing this Saturday, 13th July, from 10am at Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale. There is no need to book, just come along on the day. This free event promises to be both informative and entertaining and a great opportunity to talk about creative…
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Sound Bites – 20 June 2024
The Royal Exchange Theatre will be running an event called FestiDale in Rochdale from 8th-18th August 2024. As part of this event there will be a theatrical performance of non-fictional stories collected from local people and turned into a production that will span up to 10 hours spread over 3 days of the festival. In…
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Creative Lives Awards 2024
We are delighted that Riverside Writers have been shortlisted for these awards and would appreciate your votes in the People’s Choice category. You can vote here https://www.creative-lives.org/2024-shortlist The full Press release is below: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The power of creativity and community celebrated as Riverside Writers is shortlisted for the 2024 Creative Lives Awards ● …
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Festival of Libraries Writing Workshop: Words, Curses, and Warnings
Thursday 13th June 2024, 10am to noon. As part of the festival of libraries our regular session on Thursday morning, 13th July, will be a writing workshop themed on libraries and titled “Words, curses and warnings”. The workshop will be facilitated by Eileen Earnshaw. This workshop is open to all and free of charge. All…
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Psychics and Clairvoyants
Thursday 6th June 2024 This week at Riverside Writers sees another workshop from Eileen Earnshaw. The session promises a lighthearted look at futures. As always everyone (18+) is welcome to the session which is free of charge (voluntary donations are welcome but not required). After writing about seeing the future you may like to stay…
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Flash Fiction – May 2024
Last Thursday morning Eileen Earnshaw delivered a workshop session about writing Flash Fiction, and this week, Thursday 23rd May, the group will continue working on this theme. So what is Flash Fiction? There are various definitions but all of them involve telling a complete, fictional story in around 1000 words or less. The story needs…
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The Sea
Living on an island (quite a big one really) we are all surrounded by seas, whenever we want to travel beyond Great Britain we must cross the seas – Michael Rosen might ask if we might go over it in areoplanes or hovercraft, under it through the Chunnel, or through it on boats and ferries.…
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25th April – Rochdale Central Library
We will be meeting tomorrow, 25th April, at our regular time from 10am to 12noon, in the Library. This session will take inspirations from last week’s excellent tour of Rochdale Town Hall. There will be prompts suitable for everyone including those who I have not yet visited our magnificent restored Town Hall. All welcome, aged…
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Rochdale Town Hall Tour
18th April, 2024 This week the Riverside Writers will be meeting at the Town Hall instead of the Rochdale Central Library. We will have a guided tour to look at the amazing renovation work led by one of our members Joanne who is also a guide for the Town Hall. The tour should give us…