Category: Blog
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Graveyards, Priories, Watch Houses and Ghosts
Thurs 20th February 2025. This week the Riverside Writers are being treated to a workshop facilitated by Ray Stearn. With the title of “Graveyards, Priories, Watch Houses and Ghosts” this promises to be a bit dark, maybe a bit spooky and with Ray at the helm it is sure to be entertaining and fun. Looking…
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A research session Thursday 13th February 2025
In a change from our regular venue the Riverside Writers will be meeting from 10am to 12noon at the Rochdale Local Studies Unit, Norman Rd, Rochdale OL11 4HS. The aim of this week’s Riverside Writers session is to collect research about Rochdale and Lancashire which will help to inform writing at following sessions back in…
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Boom! Then the sky fell in
This evening we enjoyed, “Poetry Café, an excellent evening of poetry from 10 local poets at Coffee in the Corner in Littleborough. Next on Thursday morning, 6th February, Riverside Writers will feature a workshop entitled “Boom! Then the sky fell in” from Eileen Earnshaw. Expect inspiration and ideas from what promises to be an enjoyable…
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Nostalgia and Place
This Thursday morning, 30th January, we will be treated to a workshop from Eileen Earnshaw called “Nostalgia and Place”. In Eileen’s previous workshop we looked at characters in story and to follow that we will be looking at the roles placed by memory and location, and the way that the place itself can become one…
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Creative Writing Thursday 23rd January
Tomorrow the Riverside Writers will meet at our usual time in Rochdale Library at Number One Riverside. There will be plenty of opportunity to create some new writing with a workshop from Seamus or Eileen. Members write across a wide range of genres and subjects with the weekly workshops designed to encourage and inspire new…
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Happy New Year
Resolutions and inspirations Happy New Year to all of our members and subscribers. At this time of year there is lots of talk about making resolutions, behaving differently for the month of January etc. Personally I don’t do New Year resolutions – for a number of reasons one of which is that serious decisions need…
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Thursday 21st November – Developing and Editing Session
This Thursday morning the Riverside Writers session, being our third session of the month, is a chance to bring along copies of some of your writing to share with the group and chat about how it might be developed and edited. The session will be supportive and friendly and is really useful for those wanting…
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Workshop – Approaching the Door – Eileen Earnshaw
This week, on Thursday 10th October 2024, our regular weekly creative writing session will be facilitated by Eileen Earnshaw. The theme for this session is “Approachig the Door” and Eileen is sure to bring some interesting angles and examples to the theme. Venue is Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside, Rochdale and the free session…
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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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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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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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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…