December 5th 14.00 to 17.00
in the El Alamein Room of the Services Victory Club
Seymour Street London W2 2HF
Guest Speaker : Clare Whitfield
Clare is a crime writer who has been shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Dagger Award. She writes about women in historically based crime novels with humour. Her first was about a woman who thinks her husband might be Jack the Ripper! Her most recent is about female criminals, based on a real London gang in the 1920s, like Peaky Blinders but all women
12th November 2025 14.00 to 16.00
The fascinating lives of three best selling authors from the 20th century
Zoom Online webinar with IAN SKILLICORN
Some of the stories:
the ambitious writer who became a Guinness World Record holder, and tracked down Dr Crippen’s mistress after she went into hiding;
· the brave author who flew Spitfires in WW2 then moved to Scotland in search of the Loch Ness monster;
. the determined bestseller who campaigned as a suffragette and defied the Nazis in occupied Italy.
Ursula Bloom, CL Skelton and Naomi Jacob were three highly-popular, bestselling authors. They also lived through the defining moments of the twentieth century. Publisher Ian Skillicorn shared how their personal stories influenced their writing, proving that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction.
12 July 2025 @ 14:00 – 15:30
120 Addington Road : poems abut houses
14:00 – 14.15 – introductions & welcome
14.15 – 14.45 – discussion with example poems
14.45 – 15.15 – read around of delegates’ poems
(these can be delegates’ own poems, or examples from their favourite poets)
15.15 – 15.30 – review & close
22 May 2025 @ 14:00 – 15:30
A Zoom online workshop with author Sue Moorcroft.
Dealing with ways of conveying backstory other than via flashbacks, and discussion of ‘cutting for pace’ and contolling one’s viewpoint.