Phoenix Writers – a short introduction
The Phoenix Writers’ Group has been running since Easter 2008 in its current home at the Horwich Resource Centre on Beaumont Road. Before that, the group met in a variety of venues, including its original starting point the Thyme Café in Horwich.
The group has maintained a weekly meeting ever since, with members of the group taking turns to research and provide information or instruction on a particular topic of their choice: this can range from ‘how to write a successful sonnet’ to ‘how to make your characters real’; it can go from ‘writing for children’ to ‘writing a story in 50 words’. During 2011 we began to put together an anthology of some of our work – short stories and poems – which was published in the early part of 2012.
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We sometimes take ourselves away from the Centre and go looking for inspiration locally. We have visited Bolton museum and art gallery, Bolton market and the Christmas market in Manchester; we’ve walked around the ruins of Liverpool Castle at Angelzarke soaking up the atmosphere; and we’ve wandered the streets of Horwich on a sort of treasure hunt, looking for items that could belong to our invented characters and so create their personalities. We’ve discovered you can write anywhere, anytime: you don’t have to wander lonely as a cloud or live in the shed with paper and pen!
I would like to join a writing group, I live in Worsley , I was previously, many years ago, a member of Salford Women’s writers, have done some tutoring and published an anthology. I am missing the social side and need some inspiration .