Mature Times - Writing & Poetry

Need critical feedback for your writing?

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:24:46 +0000

If you are a writer based in the East Midlands and need critical feedback on your work, you might like to try a service called "Critically Write" - an appraisal service giving anonymous, independent, professional level feedback on writing and live literature/spoken word performance.

Have you got the write stuff?

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:02:39 +0000

If you have a hankering to express yourself through words, then why not join me on one of my creative writing courses in 2008? asks Mature Times editor Tony Watts.

Cats Protection launches Short Story Competition to find the best feline fable

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:18:08 +0000

Have you written a funny feline fable? Can you pen a moggy masterpiece? If so, Cats Protection wants your entry for its first ever Short Story Competition.

Blogetry vs. Worry

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:31:35 +0100

Don’t be alarmed! Blogetry isn’t a contraction of blocked artery. Quite the opposite in fact. It is one of the most potent weapons in our armoury against the dreaded condition called Worry and its bedmate, Stress.

Gardening gloves, secateurs and some very dodgy nightwear...

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:18:59 +0000

Who was the spirit-swigging gardener? Would they be angry, suspicious, as we swapped bags like spies?

The poem that touched you

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:46:35 +0000

In October’s MT we printed a plea from reader Maureen Rea of Gloucestershire for the words of a poem written for an elderly lady. The response has been overwhelming - and another story has unfolded.

Your poems please as Sir Norman Wisdom film to be released on DVD to help Macmillan

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:18:52 +0100

Earlier this year 92-year old Norman Wisdom came out of retirement to take part in the unique short film called "Expresso" . The film - a comedy based around one day at a cafe, was shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and now the film is being released on DVD, with a forward by Dame Judi Dench to promote Macmillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.

Retirement: don’t fight it - embrace it.

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:00:15 +0100

Having just published my first novel at 81, writes Des Evans, I thought I would share my experiences with your readers - particularly those who experience loneliness or who cannot settle into retirement.

Let the muse take you... to Wales

Wed, 02 May 2007 09:39:44 +0100

The Welsh Poetry Competition has been launched in Pontypridd to encourage and foster the wealth of creative writing talent languishing in dark corners throughout Wales.

National Association of Writers' Groups hold their annual Festival

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:48:24 +0100

The NAWG Annual Festival of Writing is due to be held at St Aidan's College, Durham from 31st August to 2nd September 2007.

Unleash the secret novelist in you

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:50:44 +0000

A software package promises to help budding writers turn their ideas into publishable books. And three lucky MT Online readers will be receiving a free copy.

Writing competition celebrates grandparents' and grandchildren's special relationship

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:32:04 +0000

The national charity Counsel and Care is celebrating the special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren with a creative writing competition.

Storytelling spans the generations

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:16:06 +0000

Valerie Wood-Gaiger and Carroll Nunnerley are helping to bring the generations together through the medium of story telling.

The return of the sonnet

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:36:33 +0000

A new international poetry competition to be launched on Wednesday 10th January 2007 is hoping to raise the profile of the sonnet within modern poetry.

Feel creative? Then get writing!

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:39:20 +0000

Is there a budding novelist, poet or journalist within you, bursting to get out? If so, then we may be able to help. During 2007 Mature Times' editor Tony Watts will be running two specialist creative writing weekends in conjunction with Warner Breaks.