Category: Literature
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Exciting Morning of Creativity
Our Monthly Meeting for November was once again a showcase for the creative talents of our members. There was a gallery of watercolour paintings, an oil painting, and a plentiful portfolio of 16 short stories and poems. Not to be outdone, there was a selection of home-baked culinary masterpieces being sold as part of our…
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So How & Where Does Sir Gawain End?
Our English Literature Group came to the end of the poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and found out what happened to Sir Gawain and how it all ended. SPOILER ALERT – There is a happy ending! Our Group Leader David was able to take us beyond the text of the poem – thought…
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Creative Writers Produce New Stories
Our Creative Writing Group has been hard at work once again, telling some interesting stories on the choice of themes provided by their Group Leader. This time the choice was Planning for a Journey, an Escape, or any other story that takes the author’s fancy! Amongst the stories provided to the group were The History…
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Creative Writing Has No Boundaries
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 07 August 2024 and there was no shortage of creativity on display at that meeting. We heard how food has become an effective weapon of war, about the excitement of counting votes at an election, and the problems of travelling from Greece to Egypt in the 1970s. We…
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Creative Writers Create Holmes Child
Our Creative Writing Group met on 03 July 2024 for another session where they shared their stories. The brief for this meeting was a choice of “Escapes”, “A Surprise”, “Baker Street” and “Waterloo”. Interestingly, our writers were able to expand these topics into each other, creating some really interesting ideas. We had some local limericks…
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Writers Tackle Unanswerable Question
Our group of Creative Writers met on Wednesday 03 April 2024 to offer their contributions to the group, as usual. There were several topics on offer including “If only …” – the unanswerable question. Given that, for the moment, travel in time is not possible, we cannot answer the question “What would have happened if…
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Creative Writers take to Space
Images courtesy of Stable Diffusion On Wednesday 06 March 2024, our group of Creative Writers were issued a challenge – to write a short peace using a Science Fiction Theme, or a Magical Realism Theme, or a continuation of our theme on Conflict. Always up for a challenge, we heard ten amazing short stories, varying…
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Charles Dickens phones our Writers
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 07 February 2024 to share their work on three different briefs. The first brief was ‘Conflict’, the second was one side of a phone call (making the other side’s contribution implied but clear), and the third brief was to describe a room or place really clearly. On Conflict,…
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It is All Change at Creative Writing
On Wednesday 06 December 2023, a group of budding authors and poets met to read some of their works to the group providing both entertainment and food for thought. The optional theme for the meeting was “All Change” and we heard stories about coping with recent rail strikes, the consequences of winning “Who Wants to…
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Cornucopia of Creativity in Kenton!
On Wednesday 22 November 2023 we had our Creative Activities session featuring short works by our our Creative Authors and artworks by our Watercolour Group. The art was of a very high standard, and exhibited on one side of our meeting room. As you can see below, we have a group where all levels are…