by nicola | Nov 18, 2020 | #WritersByNight, #WritingRocks
This is the first in a series of #WritingRocks chats where we explore writer-teachers’ Examples of Practice published on the Writing for Pleasure Centre website. First out of the door is writer-teacher Tobias Hayden @TobiasHayden, who generously shares his experience...
by HillWalker | Nov 15, 2020 | #WritersByNight, My Opinions
Like a swarm of wasps, a black brooding cloud amassing on the horizon, their drone getting louder and louder until it’s just noise and difficult to pick out any individual sound, the news is on the background, voices droning on and on; carrying with them a sense of...
by Billybeanwrites | Nov 12, 2020 | #WritersByNight
My dad’s mate Mo always drinks John Smith’s Light at the pub. I’m not sure anyone remembers how it had started. Whenever Mo orders a pint, the bar man says, “Hang on Mo, let me switch it.” He clicks a little button under the pump behind the bar and, just like that,...
by nicola | Nov 9, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Poetry
This afternoon, I am grateful to have been inspired by HillWalker’s gratitude poem on #WritersByNight to sit down with a cup of tea and write a poem about gratitude. I am grateful for this cup of tea: My indifference to the decaf teabag, a painless transition. Fresh...
by RossYoung | Nov 7, 2020 | #WritersByNight, Poetry
The Table (Response to a poem by Edip Cansever) A woman full of fear came home She put her bag on the table Put her pen and her notebook there She put her phone there And the Radio Times On the table she put all the things that were dear to her Photos of her family...
