Welcome to May!
We have launches, launches everywhere, and daisy and dandelions too.
Aren’t we the lucky ones!
Hope you get a chance to visit and do something related to writing or reading in the beautifully re-vamped and newly re-launched Richard Jefferies Museum, now as much like a living writer’s writing pad as it is a museum for a long-dead one. See www.richardjefferies.org
And another launch takes place in a few days’ time: the Swindon Festival of Literature, at 5.30am on Monday 4th May. For full details of the early start and the subsequent fortnight of literary frolics at www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk
5th MayWRITING MOTHERHOOD 8pm
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
7th May ANNA WHITWHAM & PADDY FITZPATRICK 8pm
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
14th May WHAT I BRING 7.30pm
Central Library, Regent Circus SN1 1QG 01793 463238
Central Library, Regent Circus SN1 1QG 01793 463238
15th MayTHINK SLAM! 8pm
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
Arts Centre, Devizes Road 01793 524481
The next Writers’ Café and Kitchen takes place from 6pm on Thursday 28th May at Lower Shaw Farm. Cost £2. Starts with pot-luck supper from 6pm. If you can, please bring something to nibble or drink, to share with others. Following acclimatisation with food and friendly chat, we take time to look at our writing. You may simply read your work for up to 5 minutes; or, if you’d like your work to be the subject of helpful comments and discussion, bring 10 copies of one piece of writing. This should amount to no more than 500 words of prose or 40 lines of poetry.
Note. We now also welcome anyone with 5-minute stories to tell. If you have a story, to tell, not read, and ideally a story from your life, please bring it along.
Other News:
The Richard Jefferies Museum has a programme of Writing Workshops and Literature events for children and families. Please see www.richardjefferies.org and click Education for full details.
The Battered Moons Poetry Competition is now open for entries: www.batteredmoons.com
If you want to keep abreast of Literature development projects and festivals that Artswords will be organising or supporting, you can follow us via this monthly newsletter, or updates on Facebook and Twitter (See links below the newsletter)
If you have any news or events for June that you would like to share with other readers of ARTSWORDS NEWS, please let us know by the middle of this month.
Happy May days and, from 4th to 16th, hope to see you at the Swindon Festival of Literature!
Matt Holland & Hilda Sheehan
SWINDON ARTSWORDS
LOVE LITERATURE! LOVE LIFE!
