We had an exceptionally busy evening on Monday 28
January
Well over twenty members braved the lashing rain to
present their entries for our first internal competition of the year – Memoir
Writing. Everyone had a chance to read out a sample of their work, and it was
fascinating to gain insights into such an astonishing variety of lives. The
extracts were in turn inspiring, funny, poignant, intriguing – and raunchy.
Amongst other things, we heard about a love for music, an irrational fear of
bandages, a trip in a runaway car, being a VIP cab driver, house moves, ‘Bob a
Job’, schooldays, fostering adolescents, boxing, being an army child, fraught
holidays, working in a casino, and many strange family secrets… The entries now
go off to our judge, former group member and creative writing tutor Andrea
Samuelson. We hope she enjoys reading them as much as we obviously enjoyed
writing them.
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