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The fourth instalment on the options facing Hongkongers - this week it's the EU facing Entrepôt dans la Manche.

Writing Groups near Burnley

Attending writing groups means many story starts. Over the past two years I’ve been to various groups:

Hasiwriters (based in Haslingden Library) Irwell Writers (meet in the Mosses, Bury) Holmfirth Writers (meet in Holmfirth Library) Slaithwaite Writers (meet in Slaithwaite Library) Phoenix Writing Workshop (meet in Brewed Coffee, Horwich) Cheetham Street Writers (now closed) Clayton-le-Moors…

Short Stories – We’ve All Done Them

Short Stories.

We’ve all done them, or at least tried our hand.

I started just after The Insertion, my first novel – hopefully something that’ll never see the light of day. This was back in 2009. I was on Literena, a site over at http://www.litarena.com/discussion/ I did 4 pieces there – essentially spin-off tales from The Insertion (all I could think of). That site was difficult to navigate and I…

Tonight at Hasiwriters, we decided to take a traditional tale and tell it from another’s point of view. The Cockroach King comes to 400 words.

The Cockroach King

I heard the tune and there was a great rushing of feet. It was when I woke. I must admit that lazing in the sun and feeding on ears of corn or scuttling away from predatory birds and mice was never far off, but the sun, oh the sun. How…

Has You Like It – Report from the Launch

I just thought I’d add my thoughts on how well the event in Haslingden Library, on the evening of 17/02/15, was.

For those who were there in spirit, but couldn’t make it, the evening was a delightful mix of well rehearsed delivery and improvisation.

Jim presented His Worship, The Lord Mayor, who spoke about the initiative that lay behind the eventual founding of Hasiwriters. Joan (Malvern)…

Has You Like It – Book Launch

Has You Like It

Has You Like It – Front Cover

  a collection of short stories and poems by members of Hasiwriters, will be launched on Tuesday, 17th February, Haslingden Library, 19:00 to 20:30.

More details have been confirmed for this event.

Guests will include renowned poet, Jean Sprackland, His Worship the Lord Mayor of Rossendale and other Borough VIPs. The indications are that this event…

Last night in Hasiwriters, we used a first paragraph from The Fécunda, which begins:

BACK IN THE PRE-TIME DAWN. Back when peoples were mixed and those that are many now were fewer. Much fewer. And they roamed lands that had no name. Lands not parcelled up into empires and dominions. In that time were the lands unsullied, the forests and jungles a tractless wild. Not tame. Not bludgeoned to…

Updates on Hasiwriters Anthology, Unfinished Tales

The editing of the Hasiwriters anthology continues apace. I’ve given some thought to the book launch (which is still several months off). A number of options are possible but the most desirable – a local bookshop – is off the cards. No bookshops in Rossendale.

Economic / Business side note on no bookshop This isn’t due to ebooks, rather the fact is that book chains and the retail stores hollowed…