Please note:
Following Government and Public Health England's advice of Monday 16 March 2020 all meetings of this group are suspended until further notice.
This situation will be reviewed as Government advice is updated
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Burton Monday Writers was formed in September 2000 by Maggs Payne, who saw a need for a day-time creative writing group in the area. Maggs found the perfect venue - Burton Town Centre Library. After contacting two fellow writers, Maggs launched Burton Monday Writers.
Over the years the group has produced several anthologies (latest on publications page). Members have had their work published, won writing competitions, attended conferences, had work read on national radio, signed publishing contracts and seen their work published internationally. We thrive on positive criticism, enthusiasm and a shared desire to enjoy creating the written and sometimes spoken word. We are a friendly group of people interested in producing short stories, poetry, scripts, novels and memoirs. Over the years we have been very successful with our writing projects. Whilst we welcome new members over the age of 19 who have an interest in creative writing , in order for our group to function efficiently we have to limit the number of active members to around 20. Hence, we operate a wait-list system. If you are interested in joining our group in the first instance please contact: Burtonwriters@aol.com or telephone 01283 845532 when places become available we will contact you. Many thanks and best wishes with your writing projects. |
Latest News
Congratulations to Lynda Turner Burton Monday Writers Chairman Short listed in 3 categories at NAWG competition 2020 Runner up - short story containing a given object Runner up - short story Sci-fi/fantasy Runner up -ten minute play Lynda was also runner up in the NAWG 2020 flash fiction competition Lynda's latest short story anthology - Thirteen Ghostly Tales is now available from Amazon in ebook format and paperback. Writing as Lynda Dunwell Thirteen Ghostly Tales Congratulations to member Ann Hodgkin, who has had a short story accepted by Woman's Weekly Magazine for publication at Christmas 2020. Obituaries Sadly our founder and Honorary President Maggs Payne passed away on her 83rd birthday January 17th 2018 Freda Beckett November 2017 It is with much sadness that we report the death of one of our longstanding and talented members. Please see More..tab at the top of the page and click onto Obituaries for details |
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• Burton Monday Writers new anthology '20/20 Vision' is hot off the press now £2.50 per copy. Further details on our members' work page.
• Shelagh Wain won our recent internal short story competiton, with Olva Lloyd runner-up. the competition was judged by author Celia Joy Anderson, who visited us on September to deliver an interesting workshop on settings. The short stories entered in this competition should appear in our next anthology due out early 2020. * Shelagh Wain won 3rd prize in the recent NAWG novella competition. Her novella "Unforgiven" a Frankenstein story for the 21st century was published in 2019. *Ann Hodgkin has had several short stories accept and published this year in the UK Woman's Magazine market. Congratulations to Ann * Shelagh Wain's poem was one of 40 out of 1000 entries shortlisted in the Lichfield Words Festival November 2019. |
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All meetings suspended until further noticeWe shall re-arrange meetings when it is possible to do so, probably early in 2020
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