Over the last eighteen years many members of Mungrisdale Writers have been enthusiastic participants in the residential writing retreats facilitated by our resident tutor Angela Locke. The brochures for the Retreats planned for 2017, in Ambleside and Iona, Scotland, are available here
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Mungrisdale Writers will be meeting on Thursday 10th November 2016 from 10.30am-1.30pm. Our tutor Angela Locke proposes
Homework is to look at Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Prayer’ and try to create a piece of prose or poetry inspired by it, preferably in the 1st person!
Closing my eyes now, I can hear the shipping forecast …
Incidentally, YouTube is a fabulous resource for writers – where any number of prose authors and poets can be heard discussing / reciting their work.
Hope to see you there.
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Mungrisdale Writers will be meeting on Thursday 27th October 2016 from 10.30am-1.30pm. Our tutor Angela Locke suggests
‘If you feel like doing any homework – no pressure! – a piece of prose or a poem in the present tense and the 1st person, that is, I and me, which is about or includes a sense – taste, touch, smell, sight, sound, or even a 6th sense?’
Autumn colours are providing us with some wonderful inspiration. Hope to see you there.
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Mungrisdale Writers’ publication ‘Dating@60 and other tribulations’ is available from mwgpublicity@gmail.com. Drop us a note if you’d like a copy.
‘A very entertaining read …’ – Judith Holder, BBC2’s Grumpy Old Women
Other publications
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The Northern Fells Arts and Crafts Fair 2016 will be held at our home venue, Mungrisdale Village Hall, on Friday 25th (Preview Evening 6–8pm) to Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th November from 10.30am–4.30pm
Light refreshments available all day
Unusual and unique gifts for Christmas – all produced in Cumbria, by local artists and craftspeople
Booking being taken now for tables, or to volunteer in our ‘Café’ please contact Philippa Groves
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The Autumn Eden Poetry-Fest will be at The Gathering, 3 King St, Penrith CA11 7AR on Saturday 29th October 2016 from 7-9.30pm. With drinks and buffet, raffle, Ugandan jewellery and great poetry to raise funds for Forward UK (donation)
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The events of 1939 change Julia’s life. Passions, loyalties and misunderstandings divert her down unexpected paths as she moves from childish innocence to adulthood against a backdrop of momentous political and social change.
Mungrisdale Writer Sarah Hampton’s Learning to Tie a Bow is her first novel.
Ethel Hinemoa Shorrock’s Granny’s War is a collection of the War Time diaries of a Lancashire cotton mill owner’s wife from 1914-1945, edited by her granddaughter, MW writer Jill Faux
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