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AUTUMN 2025

 13 Weeks, 4 Manuscript Nights, 4 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night, 1 Open Night, 1 Quiz Night, 2 Results & Read Night

 8th Sept           Announce Article Competition - 1000 words – TBC
Plans for 2025, MANUSCRIPT EVENING, and Free Drink

SUMMER COMPETITION DEADLINE (Midnight 14th SEPT)

15th Sept            WORKSHOP: Upload – With Beth

22nd Sept          MANUSCRIPT EVENING

29th Sept           WORKSHOP: Can You Separate the Art from the Artist? – With Paul

7h Oct                MANUSCRIPT EVENING: Someone else reads out your work.

9th Oct  Committee meeting

13th Oct             WORKSHOP: How to make AI your best PR writing assistant – With Lorraine

19th Oct (Sunday) - ARTICLE COMPETITION DEADLINE

20th Oct            OPEN NIGHT       

27th Oct            GUEST SPEAKER - TBC

3rd Nov             SUMMER COMP:  RESULTS AND READ

10th Nov            WORKSHOP: 500-word Flash Fiction Night Competition – With Rob

17th Nov            MANUSCRIPT EVENING

24th Nov           FESTIVE QUIZ NIGHT - With Rob & Terry

1st Dec              ARTICLE COMPETITION:  RESULTS AND READ

12th Jan            START OF SPRING SESSION 2025

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SUMMER 2025

Evenings subject to change. Will be confirmed at start of term.

15 Weeks, - 5 M/S Nights, 3 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night, 1 Inspirational Out & About Night, 1 Results Night & AGM, 1 Summer Picnic, 3 Bank Holidays

7th April - Welcome Back – Planning for the future and a FREE drink!
Announce Poetry com – 40 lines max - 1 entry
Judge – Julian to make contact with possible judge
MANUSCRIPT EVENING

14th April - WORKSHOP - Finding our niche - Lorriane

21st April - EASTER MONDAY (No Slough Writers)

28th April - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

5th May - BANK HOLIDAY (No Slough Writers)

12th May - GUEST SPEAKER (TBC)

19th May - MANUSCRIPT EVENING
Hand out Committee & Awards Nominations

26th May - BANK HOLIDAY (No Slough Writers)

1st June (SUNDAY!) - Poetry Comp Deadline

2nd June - WORKSHOP - Writing comedy -Terry

9th June - MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone else reads out your work

16th June - INSPIRATIONAL OUT & ABOUT EVENING
Around Eton Wick, Eton and The Thames

23rd June - WORKSHOP - Steering The Craft – Lee

26th June (THURSDAY) - Committee meeting – In person

30th June - MANUSCRIPT EVENING
Inspired by the Inspirational Out & About Evening
Committee and Awards Nominations to Terry

5th July (SATURDAY) - SUMMER PICNIC - Venue to be confirmed

7th July - AGM
Awards & Presentations
Poetry Comp Results
Announce Summer Comp – Deadline 5th Sept

6th Sept START OF AUTUMN SESSION 2025

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SPRING 2025

 6th Jan - Announce Ted Jones Short Story Comp - 1600-1800 words - A Ghost Story – Judge by (tbd)
Welcome Back – Planning for the future and a FREE drink!
Manuscript Evening

13th Jan - WORKSHOP - Rob’s IT Clinic

20th Jan - MANUSCRIPT EVENING                       

27th Jan - WORKSHOP - Literary devices with Lorraine

3rd Feb - MANUSCRIPT EVENING           

10th Feb - GUEST SPEAKER Tony Virgo (Lee to arrange)

SUNDAY! 16th Feb - deadline for TJSS competition entries.                                   

17th Feb - WORKSHOP - Grammer & Proofreading with Neil

24th Feb - MANUSCRIPT EVENING                                         

26th Feb - Committee meeting – In person

3rd Mar - MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone reads out your work.

10th Mar - WORKSHOP - Voice differentiation with Beth

17th Mar - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

24th Mar - TJ SHORT STORY RESULTS AND READ MANUSCRIPT EVENING

7th Apr - START OF SUMMER SESSION 2025

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AUTUMN SESSION 2024

14 Weeks, 5 Manuscript Nights, 5 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night,  1 Quiz Night, 2 Results & Read Nights.

8th Sept (SUN!) SUMMER COMP (A Satirical Story) DEADLINE (Midnight) - NOTE this is before we officially return!

9th Sept              Announce Article Comp - 1000 words - 1 entry
Plans for 2025, Manuscript Evening, Free Drink

16th Sept             WORKSHOP - The Burnham Project

23rd Sept            MANUSCRIPT EVENING

30th Sept            WORKSHOP - Writing for Magazines – Richard – see Resources and information: http://richardhill.co.uk/respect/

7th Oct                MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone else reads out your work.

10th Oct              Committee meeting

14th Oct              WORKSHOP - 500 word Flash Fiction Night – Rob, Lorraine, Nazalee

20th Oct (SUNDAY!) - ARTICLE COMP DEADLINE
2ist Oct               WORKSHOP - Working together - Paul

28h Oct              MANUSCRIPT EVENING                               

4th Nov              SUMMER COMP:  RESULTS AND READ MANUSCRIPT EVENING

11th Nov              WORKSHOP - What is it all about? – Lee

18th Nov             MANUSCRIPT EVENING

25th Nov            QUIZ NIGHT (With Rob)

2nd Dec             ARTICLE COMP:  RESULTS AND READ

6th Jan               START OF SPRING SESSION 2025

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SUMMER SESSION 2024

15th April         Announce POETRY COMP      40 Lines - 1 entry
                   Open Themed. Judge: Claire Dyer
              Manuscript Evening

22nd April       Workshop - Writing a great synopsis – Neil

29th April        Manuscript Evening

6th May           BANK HOLIDAY

13th May          Guest Speaker – TBC

20th May         Manuscript Evening

27th May         BANK HOLIDAY

2nd June (SUNDAY!) Deadline for the poetry competition

3rd June          Workshop - Finding and working with Agents – Phillip

10th June        Manuscript Evening 

17th June        Workshop - Methods of outlining/structuring novels, novellas and plays – Nazalee

24th June        Inspirational Out & About Night – Out and About around Maidenhead Thames-Side

26th June        Committee meeting

1st July          Workshop - Good Endings – Elaine

6th July          SUMMER PICNIC @ Merle & Dannys  

8th July          ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: Awards and presentations.
POETRY COMP: Results, reading.   
              SUMMER COMP: Announce.

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SPRING SESSION 2024

12 Weeks, 6 Manuscript Nights, 4 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night, 1 Results & Read Night,

8th Jan - Announce Ted Jones Short Story Comp - 1600-1800 words - 1 entry - The Verdict
- Welcome Back - Planning for the future and a FREE drink!
- Manuscript Evening

15th Jan - WORKSHOP - Famous Last Words - Paul

22nd Jan - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

29th Jan - WORKSHOP - How do they do it? - Open discussion about what makes a good writer good.

5th Feb - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

12th Feb - GUEST SPEAKER - TV Legend Johnny Ball

18th Feb - (SUNDAY!) - Hand in TJSS entries on Sunday 18th Feb

19th Feb - WORKSHOP - Character Forming - Open discussion about creating characters.

26th Feb - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

28th Feb - (WEDNESDAY) - Committee meeting - In person

4th Mar - MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone reads out your work.

11th Mar - WORKSHOP - It’s only words - What are words? What do they mean? What words do we know?

18th Mar - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

25th Mar - TJ SHORT STORY RESULTS AND READ MANUSCRIPT EVENING

1st Apr - EASTER MONDAY

15th Apr - START OF SUMMER SESSION 2024

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AUTUMN SESSION 2023

3rd Sept (SUNDAY!) – SUMMER COMP DEADLINE

4th Sept - Announce Article Comp - 1000 words - 1 entry - (Article to be set and judge by documentary maker and scriptwriter Abhi Arumbakkam - brief TBA)
- Welcome Back - Planning for the future.
- Also, Manuscript Evening

11th Sept – MANUSCRIPT EVENING

18th Sept - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

25th Sept - WORKSHOP - The Power of Stories - Lee

2nd Oct - GUEST SPEAKER: FATEMEH MOUSSAVI-POURGHARB - Positive effects of creative writing on health and wellbeing

9th Oct - MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone else reads out your work.                     

13th Oct - Committee meeting

16th Oct - WORKSHOP - Imitations – Lorraine

22nd Oct (SUNDAY) - ARTICLE COMP DEADLINE 

23rd Oct - OPEN NIGHT          

30th Oct - MANUSCRIPT EVENING                                                          

6th Nov - SUMMER COMP:  RESULTS AND READ

13th Nov - WORKSHOP - Change The Gender - Lorraine + 1

20th Nov - MANUSCRIPT EVENING

27th Nov - FESTIVE LITERARY QUIZ - A literary Christmas quiz night

4th Dec - ARTICLE COMP:  RESULTS AND READ

8th Jan - START OF SPRING SESSION 2024

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SUMMER SESSION 2023

13 Weeks, 3M/S Nights, 4 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night, 1 Inspirational Out & About Night, 1 Results Night & AGM, 3 Bank Holidays 

17th April - Announce POETRY COMP (Ode to The King – Judge Roger Stennett) - 40 Lines - 1 entry
- Manuscript Evening

24th April - Guest Speaker - Poetry (and other) Conversation with Roger Stennett, our poetry competition judge

1st May - BANK HOLIDAY

8th May - BANK HOLIDAY - CORONATION

15th May - Guest Speaker – Marion Watson - Head Of Operations, Clinical Trails
- Dr Marion Watson is Head of Operations at the Jenner Institute overseeing a wide range of clinical trial research and development activities on vaccines for malaria, TB and emerging pathogens, notably since early 2020 vaccine trials for COVID-19

22nd May - Manuscript Evening - Hand out Committee and Awards nominations

29st May - BANK HOLIDAY

4th June - Hand in POETRY Competition (Sunday night)

5th June - Workshop - TBD?

12th June - Manuscript Evening – Your Story, Different Voice

19th June - 500 Word one night Flash Fiction Comp

26th June - Inspirational Out & About Night around Littleworth Common

28h June - Committee meeting

1st July - SW SUMMER PICNIC

3rd July - Workshop - Writing the same story for different readers  – Mark
- Also send all committee and awards nominations to Terry

10th July - ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: Awards and presentations.
- POETRY COMP: Results, reading.
- SUMMER COMP: Announce.

4th Sept - Start of Autumn Term

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SPRING SESSION 2023

13 Weeks, 6 M/S Nights, 5 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night, 1 Results Night

 9th Jan - Manuscript & Discussion Evening (Free Drink),
Announcement of the Ted Jones Short Story comp,
‘Change’ judged by The Cippenham Book Group (See Brief)
16th Jan - Workshop - Freewriting with Richard Hill
23rd Jan - Manuscript Evening
30th Jan - Workshop - Different Viewpoint with Neil
6th Feb - Manuscript Evening
13th Feb - Guest Speaker - (TBC) - Deadline to hand in Short Story Competition entries,
20th Feb - Manuscript Evening
27th Feb - Workshop - Don’t get it right, get it written with Lorraine
1st Mar - Committee meeting
6th March - Manuscript Night – Your manuscript. Different voice.
13th March - Workshop - Character Traits with Nazalee
20th March - Manuscript Evening
27th March - Workshop - Copywriting with Lorraine & Neil 
3rd April - Results & Read of the Ted Jones Short Story Comp
10th April - Easter Monday
17th April - Start of Summer Term
- Welcome back. Announcement of 2023 poetry competition, run-through of this term’s programme, and manuscript night.

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AUTUMN SESSION 2022

14 Weeks, 5 Manuscript Nights, 5 Workshops, 1 Guest Speaker Night,
1 Open Night, 2 Results & Read Night,

 

5th Sept             Announce Article Comp - 1000 words - 1 entry
                           Music Review - Terry to find judge TBC
                           MANUSCRIPT EVENING

12th Sept            WORKSHOP - Swaperoo - kind of like consequences but less mad - Rob

19th Sept            Queen Elizabeth II Funeral - Bank Holiday - No evening

26th Sept           WORKSHOP - Tech - Making a book in one night! - Rob
SUMMER COMP DEADLINE                             

3rd Oct              Poetry Workshop held by Terry - “What I did today”

10th Oct             MANUSCRIPT EVENING - Someone else reads out your work.

12th Oct             Committee meeting

17th Oct              WORKSHOP - Who Knows Best - Lee

24th Oct            Zoom Interview with Alis Hawkins, whose books in the Teifi Valley Coroner Series are called: None so blind, In two minds, Those Who Know, Not One of Us.
                           ARTICLE COMP DEADLINE

31st Oct              SCARY PLAYS PART 2 - Reading of some more scary plays from Summer 21 with Burnham Am Dram. (TBC)                        

7h Nov               SUMMER COMP:  RESULTS AND READ MANUSCRIPT EVENING

14th Nov             WORKSHOP - From Fact To Fiction - Lorraine - TBC

21st Nov             MANUSCRIPT EVENING

28th Nov           WORKSHOP - Festive 500-word one-night competition - Lorraine & Rob                             

5th Dec              ARTICLE COMP:  RESULTS AND READ

9th JAN                 START OF SPRING SESSION 2023

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