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Venue: The Garden Bar, Bridgnorth Club, Bridge
Street, Low Town
Chair: Jennie
Present: Jennie, Liz, John A S, Suzi, Sue, Fiona,
Adam, Ruth, Irena, Stuart
Apologies: Kath, Andy, Anne, Jo
News
Everyone updated the group on any writing-related news
for the last month
Ruth told us of the Wolverhampton Literary Festival,
from 11 am each day, 6-8 February 2026 at the Wolverhampton Art
Gallery
On 8th February at approximately 12.15, Ruth will read some of her work
A 2nd monthly meeting?
Liz consulted the group on the idea of holding a 2nd monthly meeting at Peepos on a night other than Tuesday, maybe with a specific theme eg poetry. There was some interest for possibly Monday or Wednesday but no definite decision. Anyone who would like to organise a 2nd meeting can do so. The time, date and theme (information that can be decided by consultation), may be posted on the blog
Liz brought raffle tickets which she sold to support the Bridgnorth Library
HTW’s pre- Christmas meal is to be held at Peepos
on Tuesday 16th December at 7pm
Subject : Autofiction
Jennie explained to the group that Autofiction blends
autobiography with fiction, blurring the line between fact and fiction. It is
autobiographical but the author may use his/her own name or choose another
similar one. Non-fictional characters can be given different names and fictious
characters events, etc are introduced.
Task for next month : To write a short story, prose or poem in the form of Autofiction
Subject: A Birthday. Every living being has a birthday
so it can be the author’s birthday, a friend’s, that of a family member, a
celebrity, a criminal, a non-human, in fact any living creature!
Task for the 10 minute workshop
Jennie gave everyone a photo of a pair of Roman feet
sculpted in marble (500BCE – 500 CE) currently exhibited in the Walsall Art
Gallery. They were a possession of the Sculptor Jacob Epstein.
The task was to answer the following: Who did they belong
to? Where were they going? Where had they been? Or any thoughts about the feet.
The variety of writing in such a short time was commendable,
ranging from taking off shoes and socks on a flight, walking the length of the
British isles in the Bronze age, a refugee fleeing having had his boots taken, a child standing in surf, and imagining who the young model was who had to stay very still while having his/her feet sculpted
Subject for last month: Flashback; writing prose/short story, poem beginning in the present, continuing as a flashback bringing the reader back to the present
The group read their interesting and varied
interpretations of the subject.
Liz read her
memories of Murtala Muhammed Nigerian airport over the years, Suzi, of a
troubling childbirth, Irena, her memories of Tilley her much-loved horse, Sue,
her latest addition to the history of her Congregational Church, Fiona remembered
Luther Van dross and dancing while resting on her father’s feet as a little
girl. Stuart wrote of a dark experience to be added to his developing Iron Age novel
and Ruth wrote of walking in gusty winds and finding a dead seal. Jennie had
added to her poem about her mum and John wrote a tragic piece about a suicide-
or was it? To be continued! Adam read an excerpt from his story, ‘The Boy in my
Dream’ and Anne, unable to attend, sent another episode in her DC Kate Chalmers crime adventures
It's impossible to do justice to the pieces in a few
words but some can soon be read on our blog: hightownwriters.blogspot,com
Next Meeting: Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 7pm in The
Garden Bar, Bridgnorth Club
Chair: Adam
Any one who is writing or would like to write, is
welcome.
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