Author: Seamus
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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…
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Writing for teens / YA
Our session on Thursday 11th April will include a workshop about writing for a teen and young adult audience. We will discuss the styles, topics and tips for writing for this audience and there will be writing exercises to get our creativity working. As always all are welcome and need only bring something to write…
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“It’s the way I tell ‘em”
Thursday 4th April 2024 – A workshop with a focus on telling stories writing in prose. Eileen Earnshaw will lead the session which will as always be both informative and fun. All welcome and the session will run at our regular time of 10am to 12noon at Rochdale Central Library, Number One Roverside. All you…
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Thursday 28th March – Life Flavours
As we approach the Easter Weekend, Eileen had been thinking about chocolate eggs, rabbit and various other cocoa-based confectionery. The workshop this week has been created by Eileen who has widened the chocolate ideas to “Life Flavours”. Why not come and join us from 10:00am to 12:00noon, in Rochdale Central Library, for what is sure…
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Writing Stories for Children
Our session on Thursday 21st March at Rochdale Central Library will be a workshop all about writing stories for children. This workshop will be facilitated by Seamus Kelly. We will look at some well known stories for inspiration and consider some of the things that make stories attractive for children. Although the focus is narrative…
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Eileen wins Edwin Waugh Society President’s Cup
Congratulations to the founder of our group, Eileen Earnshaw, who has been awarded The President’s Cup for her entry in the Edwin Waugh Society annual competition. You can read the winning poem here: At Sunday Mass. We are welcomed to his house, Whatever day or reason, philosophically, you could say that god is with us…
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Great first session at Riverside
A total of 13 writers attended our first session in our new venue and had a very enjoyable and productive workshop “In defence of small towns” led by Eileen Earnshaw.
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7th March 2024
This Thursday morning, 7th March,10:00am to 12:00noon, we have our first creative writing session in our new venue at Number One Riverside, Rochdale. Eileen Earnshaw will lead her workshop “In defence of small towns”. Open to all, aged 18+, and new writers are always welcome. Refreshments are available from the on-site Bean independent coffee shop.…
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Workshop 29/02/2024
Our final session at Vibe, before moving to the central library will be a Worksop led by Eileen titles “The devil said” Want to know, or decide, what was said? Then come and join us
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Riverside venue
We are excited that from March 2024 the Riverside Writers group will be holding our weekly sessions at Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale. Refreshments: are available from the Bean cafe within the Number One Riverside building. Public Transport Access : The Library ideally placed for access by public transport, being right…