Category: Prose
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Thursday morning writing sessions are back
After our Christmas and New Year break Riverside Writers will meet on Thursday 16th January 2025 at our regular time from 10am to 12noon. For this session our facilitator will be Eileen Earnshaw with a workshop titled “Pickled eggs, secrets and characters”. There will be a focus on character development and of course chances to…
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Creating Christmas Chills
12th December 10am to 12noon Among the various traditions around Christmas, and indeed Winter, is one of ghost stories. For our final workshop of 2024 we will look at the genre and create some Winter Chillers of our own. With just a couple of weeks until Christmas this is an ideal chance to write something…
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December Traditions
Thursday 5th December 10am – 12noon As we arrive in the last month of the year Riverside Writers will have a workshop themed on some of the traditions we have built around this winter month and around Christmas. Whether your traditions include hibernating or singing out loud to The Pogues there will plenty of opportunity…
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Thursday 28th November
No, no, no, no, no, November This week the Riverside Writers session will feature a workshop from Eileen Earnshaw. With the unusual weather lately it sometimes feels like we’ve gone straight to Winter having largely skipped Autumn – that’s just the kind of notion that inspires poets, and Eileen is both inspired and inspirational so…
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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 session – Thurs 14th November
10am to 12 noon, Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside This week Seamus Kelly will be leading a workshop to get the creativity flowing. There will be a variety of techniques to help hone our skills and stir our imaginations. Expect to find yourself writing the unexpected. Of course we’ll have fun doing so. As…
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“Oh, to be a hero” – writing workshop
Rochdale Central Library – Thursday 7th November 10am – 12noon In a busy week for writers the Riverside Writers workshop will be a time to reflect as we approach Remembrance Day (11/11/2024), and Remembrance Sunday (10/11/2024). Eileen Earnshaw will lead a creative writing workshop titled “Oh, to be a hero”. Eileen always leads inspirational workshops…
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Writing sessions for October
Riverside Writers next three sessions at Rochdale Central Library will be held on Thursday 17th, Thursday 24th and Thursday 31st October, all sessions from 10am to 12noon. The details of these three sessions are as follows: 17th October – following a successful writing development session last month this will be our second opportunity for our…