Hi All. It's been a good week for spoken word events this last week. Beginning at the Mortal Man Hotel, Troutbeck Bridge, there was a small but appreciative audience for the spoken word evening. A small bunch of authors, like me, read out a variety of offerings. I read out poems and a short story, PASS IT ON, from my short story book, TALL TALES. It's about a man who picks up a book which contains a curse on its readers.....creepy!
At the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, we had a long evening of offerings. With only four minutes each, it's mainly an evening of poems. I read my new one on the REFERENDUM. Finally, along with other ULVERSON WRITERS, I helped entertain elderly and visually impaired people. I chose poems from my poetry books HOTCHPOTCH and WORD PIE, keeping mainly to the more humorous entries. Thanks to everyone who listened.
Hi All. I've been working hard. After intensively editing five drafts of MEG'S JOURNEY it is now out with beta readers. I grow to love all my stories and all my characters and Meg Wright, the main character, a rather disagreeable grandmother, is no different. I daresay there will be some useful criticism to come. Readers are very good at discovering errors or seeing ways of making improvement. I always wait with trepidation to hear initial reactions.
I am also now in the final throes of completing THE MAN NEXT DOOR. It has been read by three
people and I now feel confident it is in good shape. It will still take another four weeks before it is ready to offer for sale. Best wishes. Julie
Hello all. Anyone thinking of visiting Kendal this summer, make sure it's 23/30 July. Why? Because Kendal community theatre is staging 58 fifteen-minute plays (yes, really, 58!) around streets, yards and venues in the centre of Kendal. lt is a huge, unique project. Yesterday evening I attended a meeting of writers, directors and actors. Each play will be under the control of a professional director. The plays are so varied, too, from historical to modern day humour. It will be the most amazing event with hundreds of local people involved. My play, too, will be performed. Called STORE WARS, it is a satirical look at the competition between shops along the high street.
A full programme will be available in due course. Watch this space.