First Meeting - 4th January, 2016

At our first meeting of the year, 24 keen members staggered through the torrents and gales to share their submissions for this year's anthology. As always, there was a wide  variety of genres, styles and voices, all on the loose theme of Hastings, as all proceeds will be donated to the Hastings Pier Charity. We had Grey Owl and magical mermaids, stories set on the sea shore, a library and an art gallery, two tales of thwarted love and one about a man whose main love was drinking. We had poems celebrating, the pier, rain, beach and everything we have on offer in our quirky town. We finished off with a light writing “splurge”, extrapolating paragraphs from prompts inspired by words connected to Hastings. Watch this space for the further adventures of Arthur, the East End seagull, who could well turn out to be our most celebrated 'Down from London'-er ever. Huge congratulations to Marcia Woolf, who has secured a publishing contract for her dark crime novel, Road Kill, on her first attempt.