Wylye Valley WriterS
Sharing Stories and Developing Fine Writing
Wylye Valley Writers
Our aims are to nurture local writers and entertain our audience by sharing stories.
Sharing Stories
We hold quarterly events where five invited writers read extracts from their recent work to a live audience, followed by a lively discussion.
Our next event is on the 16th January 2025.
The writers are local authors, published or unpublished. The readings may be from any form of writing: poetry, prose or plays, fiction or non-fiction. Genres are of all types: recent readers have read historical, women’s, comic, future, and contemporary fiction as well as memoir.
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Developing Fine Writing
We are currently running a writing skills course where a small group work through a Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin. We get together monthly to discuss the chapter topics and share our responses to the exercises.
We have no plans for future courses at present, but if you are interested, please get in touch.
How Wylye Valley Writers came to be
June Cluett held a book launch for Five Artist Writers which William, a neighbour, attended and hugely enjoyed. They discussed a possible local book launch for both June’s new book and William’s latest Science Fiction novel, Dark & Light. Later, June attended a meeting of the Salisbury Writing Circle where members read aloud their own short stories, bringing their magical words to life. Putting these elements together gave the structure for an entertaining evening which would help promote local writers. Immediately June and William were joined by Tracy, who writes as Maude Martin, and together they launched Wylye Valley Writers.
June Cluett
William Graham
Tracy Burge
Like to learn More?
We are always delighted to talk about what we do, how we might further our aims, and to encourage and support local writers
Website developed by William John Graham. Thanks to Tyler Moore for his YouTube video