Wivenhoe Writers

The prospect of several long train journeys, with preparedness for possible delays, sent us out in search of some reading material. By coinc...

It's very hard to be both a writer and promoter, the two don't generally sit comfortably together. Writing is an insular activity su...

For me, and others of a certain age, poems from childhood and youth are stored deep in the memory, buried like daffodil bulbs, bursting out ...

As a goody-goody fourteen-year-old, in the mid 1960s, I never complained about the compulsory ‘home readers’ chosen by our English teacher, ...

I've been a first (and second) round reader for three different writing competitions in the UK over the years.  In each case, it was an ...