By Joy Ridgewell
MEMBERS of the TWC that attended the Thurrock Writers Festival held at Grays Library on Saturday 18th May had a great day. Copies of their Anthology were on sale and it was good to mix and talk with other authors.
The TWC held a workshop presented by Chairman Joy Ridgewell and Head of History at Palmers College Cindy Barber, people of various ages who attended were given a title and the competition was to write a story in twenty minutes these were judged by the entrants themselves and the winner was Wendy Mach with “I wish it had never happened”
The short story competition set by The Grays Library entitled “Thurrock” first prize went to Daniel Chinnon with “Thor’s Rock” the runner up was “Wish you were here “by Karen Collibee.
Members of the TWC, Steve Davis won First prize in the Poetry competition and Joy Ridgewell won the Third prize all winners received book tokens presented by Waterstones.
The TWC will be attending St Margaret’s Church Fete, Stanford le Hope with their Anthology on Saturday 27th May 2pm -5pm.
Next meeting 29th May – 12th June 2013 at 7pm-9-30pm at the Hugh Delargy Hall Defoe Parade Chadwell St Mary Grays Essex
