Sarah Poulton to be guest speaker at our first members’ event

Our first membership event will take place on the 13^th October in Appleyard & Co, Norwich. This will be a Sunday afternoon treat of tea and cakes with some short talks by regional writers on the Dos and Don’ts of their profession.

We’re very pleased to say that Sarah Poulton will be giving one of the talks. Sarah lives in Norwich and is a freelance writer and editor with more than 20 years experience of working for mainstream magazines, newspapers and web publications. Past employers include IPC Media, BBC Worldwide, Redwood and, most recently, the Telegraph, where she was deputy editor for Special Reports.

If you’d like to hear Sarah’s talk, as well as eat cake, then join Words And Women! Annual membership costs £10 and more details and information on how to join can be found on our membership page. 

Moon And Henry

Women writers and readers are continuing to join Words And Women as members which is great news for us. One of our newest members is Sarah Bower whose short story Moon And Henry will be broadcast on Radio 4 in the Tales From The East series, in the week beginning the 1^st of September. The reader is Norwich actor Poppy Miller.

Sarah’s novels – The Needle In The Blood and Sins Of The House Of Borgia – have been translated into 9 languages. Her third novel – Erosion – will be published in 2014, when she will also become writer-in-residence at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Sarah currently lives in North Suffolk.

If you would like to become a member of Words And Women then see our membership page for more details. Annual membership costs £10 and our first event will take place in Norwich in October when we’ll be offering a Sunday afternoon treat of tea and cakes and five short talks by some very special guests.

Broadcasting

Many women writers and readers in this region are joining Words And Women as members which is great news. One of the exciting results of this is that we’re learning a lot about new publications and up-and-coming literary events.

 

Andrea Holland  had just joined us as a member. She’s a poet, author and creative-writing tutor based in Norwich, and tells us that her new collection Broadcasting , published by Gatehouse Press, will be reviewed in the EDP this Saturday 17/08/13.

Broadcasting is the result of the Norfolk Commission Award for poetry which Andrea won in 2012. The book focusses on the 1942 requisition of several Norfolk villages for D-Day training, and should interest readers of poetry but also anyone interested in East Anglian or regional history. Copies of the book are available from Gatehouse Press.

One artist, one writer, one musician

Here's an update on the achievements of some of the women who took part in our March celebrations.

Emily Cole:

Emily’s work was shown in our drawing exhibition in The Forum Atrium, and we’ve just heard that she’s won  the 2013 Holt Festival Art Prize for her painting Drifter. Read about her success here.

Clare Jarrett, a Words And Women regular, was shortlisted for the prize too.

Eleanor Wasserberg:

Eleanor Wasserberg, who read an extract from her novel Foxlowe at our Fusion event , recently gave a workshop at The Fly Festival Of Literature For Young People held at UEA in July. Click here for an enthusiastic review of Eleanor’s ‘Creating Characters’ workshop.

Anna Mudeka:

The wonderful Anna, who's performed at every Words & Women event to date, is a finalist for The Most Influential Woman In Business And Government In Africa Awards. Click here for a review of The Southburgh Festival Of World Music which took place last weekend and which Anna organises.

Words And Women on youtube

Here's a short film of our International Women’s Day celebration this year. With many thanks to Culture works for filming the event and Jean Hogg for her brilliant editing.

In addition to those we’ve named in the credits, we’d also like to thank The  Norfolk And Norwich Millennium Library and The Forum Trust for all their assistance and support, and to Sarah Passingham and her team for running the bar in the Fusion Digital Gallery.

Not forgetting too Norfolk County Council for supporting us through the Arts Project Fund.

A couple of amendments to the credits:

‘Songteller’ should read ‘Storyteller’ – sorry Kelly!

And Antonia Smith and Helen Holderness are the wonderful Girl Debois.