Need critical feedback for your writing?
By By Damien Walter - 05/03/2008
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.
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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
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
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...
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The poem that touched you
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
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.
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
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
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
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
The national charity Counsel and Care is celebrating the special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren with a creative writing competition.
Storytelling spans the generations
Valerie Wood-Gaiger and Carroll Nunnerley are helping to bring the generations together through the medium of story telling.
The return of the sonnet
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!
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.
