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 @ 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 @ 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.