Cleckheaton Writers Group (CWG) met last Monday night with Alice, Barbara, Cassie, Gemma, Karen and Kathy in attendance.
The minutes from the last meeting were passed.
WIP updates: Karen has edited six chapters of her crime MS and submitted a poem and a short story into the Creative Future Awards. Alice has entered the Write Mentor Novel in Development Award and been planning and starting a new picture book. Gemma has written a workshop on the five senses and been on a tour of Stanley Royd Asylum in Wakefield next to Pinderfields Hospital. She was also given a USB stick of a short film depicting the asylum before it was demolished. Barbara has submitted her short story to Autocrit. She titled it 'Paula is good with her hands.' Kathy wishes to kick-start writing/editing again following a holiday. Cassie is still on with her novel which she editing following feedback and then shared with her U3A group.
CW comps/workshops/events: The Bath Novel Award closes 31 May 2022 and on 6 June Guppy opens for children's submissions until 10 June 2022.
Feedback session: There was not time.
Writing plans: Gemma will continue editing and research. Alice will continue her new picture book and edit Project Nightmare with a different narrative voice. Karen will continue editing her crime MS and C.E. enter the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award. Cassie will forge forward on her MS. Kathy will do more work on her Tobias MS. Barbara will have a go at the Jubilee writing challenge and she shared with CWG members a coronation souvenir, a butter knife from 2 June 1952 in its original box. She also has a copy of A Christmas Carol from the 1920s with no date on the edition.
The next meeting will take place on Monday 6 June 2022.
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