| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Group leader: | |
| When: | On Tuesdays 2:00 pm-3:30 pm 1st Tuesday of month |
| Venue: | The Reubens, Leeming Bar |
| Cost: | No charge for venue hire but members attending are expected to buy a refreshment. |
The group is suitable for absolute beginners and also more experienced writers too. Writing is good for keeping the brain working and for your mental wellbeing. Come along for a chat, laughs and some writing too. There is no pressure to share what you have written.
Our Creative Writing sessions include fun activities and lots of tips and support to help you along the way. Research shows that creative writing improves both cognitive skills and mental health, but the most important thing about our sessions is that they are friendly, enjoyable and fun.
If you are interested in learning more or would like to join us please contact Creative Writing Leader.
Forthcoming events
Previous Projects
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Religious Setting
We enjoyed an interesting afternoon listening to four very different stories about aspects of monastic life, which led to some lively discussion afterwards.
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Five Minutes of Dialogue
Our dialogue pieces were imaginative and varied, with murders in one story and a stretching of the truth by a Sudanese child, when working with an interpreter, in another.
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A Family Secret
The April meeting was much enjoyed as we listened to each others’ stories. Topics varied from troublesome family members to mysterious Italian holidays!
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Flash Fiction
The group were asked to write a piece of "Flash Fiction" or a short piece less than a few hundred words, which had characters and a plot. Members wrote very imaginative pieces. One was about a death during a coach trip and another about sibling murder, and two beautiful poems.
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"Through the Eyes of a Child"
We heard stories about a child being born, a Victorian ghost story, a monologue from a disabled child and a light hearted piece about two Yorkshire boys discussing the bible. There was also a very emotive story about child abuse. All the stories produced lots of positive and enjoyable discussions.
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A Factual/Fictional Piece
The response to the month's topic of a factual/fictional piece was very varied. There were items written in the time of Bede, Emails from Henry VIII, problems over allotments and many more. The group enjoyed the writing and the listening to some great stories.
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"I Didn't Expect It to End Like This"
For the September meeting the title the members had to write into was — " I didn't expect it to end like this." There was an entertaining piece about an amateur dramatic panto rehearsal, one about a children's party and much more. For the month of October, members will write some fiction/fact, using a…
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Short Story Writing
The group is growing well with 6 members there on Tuesday 1st July. They had written wonderful short stories containing the sentence, "The telegram came at 2 30……." Subjects written about by the group members varied from the telegram boy's story to a lady getting a telegram confirming she was booked on the Titanic for…
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Poems
At the April meeting, members shared the poems they had written. Each varied in style, length, and content and generated a great deal of discussion stretching from happy memories, types of formal verse (such as ballads,) subject matter, and the writers approach to writing their poem.