There were ten attendees today with apologies received from Donnie, Joan, Jeannie and Ted.
Rob began with a recap of the exercises that we did last week with performance poet Jenny Lindsay. The details are on last week’s blog and form the basis of the poetry competition which can use any one of the exercises as a starting point.
Each member is limited to two entries to the competition and the competition guidelines can be found in the blog. The deadline for the competition is the 3rd of December and entries should be sent to the Competitions Secretary, Morag as a PDF.
Sandra's good news was that on Thursday the 14th of November she has been invited to Paisley Abbey where the University of the West of Scotland will award her an honorary Doctor of Letters degree.
We were reminded that the Erskine Writers will be moving venue from 7 January 2025 to the Erskine Community Sports Centre.
Hillary gave us a full and interesting account of her trip to India and Goa which was crammed full of trips to nature reserves and parks where she saw a wonderful selection of animals and birds that made the early morning starts and the bumpy transport worthwhile.
John Hughes reminds us of the Arts and Craft Fair and also that on the 16th of November at 7:30 PM on YouTube, the group yobcultcha will be releasing a Christmas single entitled I'm going to funk all over yule.
Lorna read Hillary’s short story, My Golden Treasure, the idea for which came from a bag of hair things dating from the 1900s that were found in her loft.
Rob read an extract form from the family history he is writing for his children and grandchildren – a dialogue piece entitled, I beg your pardon, Mr Previn, an account of a real meeting with the conductor while Rob was at Aberystwyth University.
Brian's contribution was belated response to the Kelvin Grove visit entitled, A formidable body of work that told about the life of Russell M Saunders, a Canadian acrobat who worked as a film stuntman. Saunders was the life model for Salvador Dali's Christ of Saint John of the Cross.
John Hughes takes 9 words from his daily Wordle competition and writes a flash fiction piece using those words. He read out three pieces today.
Next week’s meeting is based on the theme of a letter to an agony aunt. Each member will write a problem to an agony aunt and pass it to another member who will reply as the agony aunt.
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