It was a breath of fresh air in every way for members of Derbyshire Scriptwriters to finally meet for their Annual General meeting last weekend – our AGM met in the outside seating of Quad Cafe to catch up on what had been achieved in the last year, and discuss what we planned to do …
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Twenty six participants from Warwickshire joined Chrissie for an interactive talk about life story writing recently. They enjoyed time \’together\’, and were inspired to start capturing their own \’anecdotes\’ from memory after hearing extracts from some of the extra-ordinary things some of Chrissie\’s students had been writing about during lockdown and before. Chrissie will be …
Great news from DSW member Richard, whose short story Coming of Age in Fairy will be featured in City Limits Publishing\’s latest collection, Another Place, Another Time: A Collection of Short Stories -congratulations, Richard!
Our final meeting of 2020 was over the internet again, with a great deal of discussion about the merits of outdoor performances alongside DSW member Johns ghostly tale in the park. And as a new, and hopefully brighter new year is around the corner, a number of DSW members have been awarded Bursaries and will …
DSW continue to share writing opportunities and support each other during these difficult times. Our November meeting happened via Zoom and members who were awarded a bursary towards the cost of Quad will be receiving cheques shortly. The bursary was used to attend Alex Davies\’ excellent Ghost Writing session – and the group is …
Meeting in the sunshine was rather different from our usual meetings held in the Museum. We enjoyed being able to discuss our different experiences of writing (or not writing) and responses to our lockdown experiences. Several of us found it difficult to write initially, some \’recovered\’ their muse quicker than others, some confessed to a …
Derbyshire Scriptwriters have continued to support each other and critique scripts over recent difficult months. Some DSW members will be meeting in a member\’s outdoor space, weather permitting, on Sunday 12th July to critique two short scripts and deal with a short business agenda and have a sociable catch-up. Anyone interested in coming should contact the …
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Derbyshire Scriptwriters has had to postpone the monthly meetings and put our plans on hold due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, but we\’re still here, still writing, and still supporting each other by exchanging information and opportunities and critiquing scripts.
Several lucky DSW members were awarded bursaries from DSW funds and enjoyed two recent workshops at Derby Quad– \’Directing and Performing\’ and \’Scriptwriting from Page to Performance\’. The morning and the afternoon sessions were interesting, helpful and well timed for DSW as members are looking forward to bringing their own short plays \’from page to performance\’ …
DSW Chair Chrissie Hall will be leading a residential course \’Creative Writing For Beginners\’ at Denman College, Oxford from 26th to 28th February. For details go to www.lifestorywriting.co.uk and click on \’courses and events\’.
