The Group normally meets on alternate Thursday mornings at 10:30 a.m. in the Monmouthshire Building Society, Queen Street.
What :
Write something, prose or poetry. Then come along and read it to a small, sympathetic group of people who are doing the same thing, and listen to their constructive comments.
It may be the first thing you’ve written since school or it may be a chapter in a book you’re writing. All get equal time and respect with us.
Read on to find some of our work.
Creative writing for pleasure!
What Else:
We also have a WhatsApp group for the exchange of views. Contact the convenor for details.
We choose 2-3 topics for the next meeting so as to give a focus to our efforts but members can write on whatever they like and are not constrained by these topics.
Members write short pieces or long pieces, read out excerpts from stories they are working on and want your feedback. Our only proviso is that everyone should get a chance to read in the hour and a half we have so sometimes we ask for longer pieces to be split across meetings.
Wordsmiths Writers Work
Watch this space for more new pieces of work!
A short piece about Spring from Christine Cruikshank SPRING
‘Blurred Lines’ by Margaret Richards -inspired by three words Blurred Lines
As one of our optional meeting themes, Wendy gives ‘three words’. This piece, ‘Blurred Lines’, was inspired by itch, monocle, perseverance and was written by Margaret Richards. https://cardiffu3a.org/wp-content/uploads/Blurred-Lines.pdf
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A Selected Piece of Writing
Published 22nd March 2025
A warm and encouraging short piece about Spring written by Christine Cruikshank.
Wordsmiths Writers Group met last week to share some pieces including a writing stimulus piece called ‘The First Day at School’ by William Saroyan.
This was followed by three short pieces, ‘Car Boot Teddy Bears’, ‘Dressing up’, and ‘Diamonds don’t Matter’, and then a moving account of childhood focussing on the strength gained from‘ To Kill a Mockingbird’.
‘A Very Grizzly Bear Safari’ recalled a visit to Canada and finally there was a stream of consciousness piece about sensations, with a twist in the tale ending.
After a short break the group will meet again on Thursday 8th August when the themes will be Sea, See, Inheritance or whatever inspires you to write!
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Connecting Who: Artificial Beings
Published 15th August 2023
The Cybermen, the Weeping Angels, the Daleks… the artificial beings of Doctor Who are some of the most iconic in science fiction. But what inspired them?
Connecting Who traces their origins back to the myths, folktales and real events of history; the teachings of religion; not to mention the wealth of other sci-fi writing from which Doctor Who has drawn.
by Peter Grehan Publisher: Candy Jar Books (10 April 2017)
Our next meeting will be on Thursday the 9th of March from 11 am to 12:30 pm and will take place at our usual venue of the Monmouthshire Building Society.
Suggested themes are Sowing/Sewing Machines, Buses, Books or Lockweiler or anything you want to write about as usual. Lockweiler is a construct of Lock and Rottweiler so make of that what you will.
The latest creative writing newsletter from our subject adviser, Marcia Humphries, is now available. To read the newsletter follow this link
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Cardiff Castle Dragon Tale
Published 12th April 2022
by Mary and Phil Mullett
Published by Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-83975-141-7
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Dark-Eyed Sailor
Published 12th April 2022
“Dark-Eyed Sailor“ by Doug Bennie (Owen Parry) Published 2018 Kindle Edition only
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Try your hand at writing
Published 2nd March 2022
Write something, prose or poetry. Then come along and read it to a small, sympathetic group of people who are doing the same thing, and listen to their constructive comments.
It may be the first thing you’ve written since school or it may be a chapter in a book you’re writing. All get equal time and respect with us.
