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Welcome to Garston Writers Group
Garston Writers’ Group welcomes members from all walks of life from across Merseyside– we’re a mixed bunch, and we enjoy new perspectives.
All we require is that our members treat each other with respect.
Many people think of writers as solitary hermits – but the core goal of most writers is focused upon other people: communicating with an audience, whoever that audience may be.
Different people join Garston Writers’ Group for different reasons, but some themes are central: we’re here to support each other’s writing, sympathise with writerly woes and also to provide constructive feedback on each other’s work.
No-one is asked to read out their work if they do not wish to. It is always voluntary. Our meetings have a fairly fixed structure, which is explained more in the next section, but we occasionally visit exhibitions at Museums and Art Galleries to inspire our writing and sometimes have guest playwrights and published authors to lead our sessions.
What we write
There is a theme to the twelve sessions in each term and the sessions cover prose, poetry and drama. A typical session would start with a ten minute ‘starter’ in which members are given a topic that doesn’t need much thinking about and the idea is to simply get writing, without much hesitation for the allotted time. Some of these starters are then read out to the group.
After some input from the session leader, we usually break up into groups to complete another writing task and the groups read out their completed task, and receive feedback from the other groups.
Often there is a writing task that you can take away from the group and do at home, but this ‘homework’ is never compulsory, although most members find it enjoyable
When we meet
Thinking of Joining?
Come along for a free taster session – you will be made very welcome. Or contact us for more details about becoming a member.
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Often there is a writing task that you can take away from the group and do at home, but this ‘homework’ is never compulsory, although most members find it enjoyable When we meet Garston Writers’ Group loosely follows the school’s terms, meeting every Wednesday, 10am – 12noon at Garston Reading Rooms, Wellington St, Garston, Liverpool ...