Happy April everyone- before we all stuff ourselves silly with choccy eggs, we’re meeting this Sunday to discuss our 2025 Crime Scripts project and give feedback to a script in progress submitted by one of our members- egg-citing times!If you’d like to join us, click here.
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Publication success for DSW Member Richard
Congratulations to DSW Member Richard- his short story No Such Word as Can’t is featured in February’s edition of Link Magazine. Great work Richard!
March Meeting: Sunday 2 Mar, 2-4pm at Derby Museum
Shhh! If you listen carefully, you can almost hear Spring getting ready to, well, spring! We’re meeting this Sunday and continuing our 2025 plans by working with members to bring the threads of their crime themed scripts together- if you’d like to join us, click here.
February Meeting: Sunday 2 Feb, 2-4pm at Derby Museum
We’re continuing 2025 with developing and writing our series of crime themed scripts- and discussing one of them at our meeting this Sunday- if you’d like to join us, click here.
January Meeting at Derby Museum: Sun 5 Jan, 2-4pm
Happy New Year! We’re back for a 2025 full of stories and scripts ready to write and discuss! If you’d like to join us and see what we’re getting up to, say hello here.
December Meeting: Sun 1 Dec, 2-4pm, Derby Museum
Our crime-themed script project continues with a script from DSW member John for us to discuss, as well as our plans for taking our scripts to the stage in 2025… And maybe a mince pie or two…! If you’d like to say hello and see how we work with members to develop their scripts and …
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November Meeting: Sun 3 Nov, 2-4pm, Derby Museum
We’re making a bold start with our new crime-themed script project- we’ll be discussing two scripts this month from DSW members Richard and John- it’s going to be really interesting to see where our members take us on this theme over the next few months… If you’d like to say hello and see how we …
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Members success stories: October 2024
DSW members Richard Layton (with a short story called No Such Word as Can’t) and John Hassall are both due to be featured in the December edition of NAWG’S Link Magazine. John’s self published short story collection ’21 at 70′ will be available soon, and Richard’s piece ‘AI Say, AI Say, AI Say’ is a …
October Meeting: Sun 6 October, 2-4pm at Derby Museum
Hello, after a busy month featuring our day of six one-act plays, we’re starting our next project, centred around writing crime. We’ll be discussing our ideas and making plans to bring them to the page (and beyond)… If you’d like to say hello and see how we work with members to develop their scripts and …
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What a day!
We had an amazing Saturday at Derby Theatre this weekend as we saw our six final one act plays take to the stage in the Studio Theatre- our actors did fantastic work performing our scripts after a meetup with the writers and a rehearsal session the day before.DSW want to give special thanks to Stuart …