Tag: Storytelling
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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 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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Halloween writing session
Thursday 31st October, 10am to 12noon As our regular session this week falls on Halloween Eileen Earnshaw will be delivering a suitably dark workshop. prepare to be afraid…. Everyone, aged 18+, is welcome at the session which will be taking place in Rochdale Central Library, Number One Riverside.
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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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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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“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…