Riverside Writers
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Welcome!
 | Riverside Writers are an enthusiastic and friendly group whose interests incorporate all aspects of creative writing from factual texts on cuisine to literary, historical and popular fiction, poetry, sit-coms and comedy, plays, science-fiction, gothic horror and family sagas.
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New members and visitors are always most welcome!
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Meetings are held at 7.30pm-9.30pm at West Kirby Library in The Concourse, which is immediately next to West Kirby train station, which offers ample car parking facilities at the rear, plus a regular bus and train service.
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Next Meeting!
Riverside Writers next meet on July 28th, 2008. Members are invited to bring along examples of their own creative writing, or to participate in our monthly writing project. June's project is to create a poem or short story based on a photograph of an unusual housing solution featuring several stacked caravans, lorry containers, ladders and scafolding!
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MEETING DATES FOR 2008:
July 28th
Aug 18th
September 29th - "Methods of Good Writing Critique", a workshop led by Adele Cosgrove-Bray.
October 27th
November 24th
December 22nd
(Dates may be subject to alteration)
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Mailing List!
If you would like to be kept up-to-date with news about Riverside Writers, then please feel free to join our mailing list. Send your details in confidence to:- riversidewriters@aol.com
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Dark Fantasy Anthology!
 | Dark of the Night : An Anthology of Shadows (ISBN: 1430309156) was published on Hallowe'en 2006 by Dark Moon Press. Copies are available from Amazon Books at www.amazon.com or direct from the publisher at www.darkmoonpress.net
This collection of new Dark Fantasy fiction offers a diverse and enchantingly chilly introduction to the work of several emerging genre writers, including The Club, which is a deceptively alluring tale of vampire subculture written by Adele Cosgrove-Bray, who has Chaired the monthly meetings of Riverside Writers since 2003.
Adele also writes for the Wirral Globe online newspaper which can be viewed at www.wirralglobe.co.uk in the Eblogs forum.
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The Muse's Mouth
A new internet newsgroup aims to develop and aid easy communication between individual writers and writers' groups across the North West of England. Other interested parties are also welcome, however.
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Members of The Muse's Mouth can messages to all other members who can then reply, simply by using their ordinary email. News of writing-related events, invitations to writers' workshops, publishing achievements or queries about any aspect of writing may be forwarded to the group.
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Membership is FREE. Simply send an email to:- the_muses_mouth-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Tims's Tales
Tim Hulme celebrated another success following the publication of his witty tale of auction house mayhem with A Private View.
This is featured in the 316th edition of Cauldron magazine, which is edited by Terence Grogan and available from 10 Glyn Road, Wallasey, Wirral, CH44 1AB.
Tim's stories, including The Missing Muffin, have been performed on Radio Merseyside. He is currently writing a monologue which will be performed by professional actors as part of the Wirral Writers Inc arts festival in 2008.
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Faerie Magic on Wirral!
 | A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy offers three tales of Dark Fantasy to thrill your mind and capture your soul!
Frog, New Year's Day and Swap are set on the Wirral Peninsula, and draw on the rich heritage from its Celtic, Viking, Roman and Norman settlers as inspiration for these contemporary tales by local author Adele Cosgrove-Bray.
New Year's Day is set largely on Hilbre Island, while Swap moves between Parkgate and Caldy Hill, which is also featured in Frog, along with West Kirby and several other Wirral villages.
A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy is available only from Amazon.com, and was published in July 2007.
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Say It with Flowers!
 | The September 2007 edition of Prediction magazine features a non-fiction foklore article by Riverside Writers' member, Adele Cosgrove-Bray.
Prediction is one of the UK's premier New Age publications, and has been in circulation since 1937. The magazine is available from all main UK newsagents, and also on-line.
Adele has had an interest in folklore all her life, and with this article she explores traditional meanings given to the choice of flowers within bouquets. |
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Haunted Hilbre!
 | Ruins Terra (ISBN 978-0-9785148-5-3) is a new anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories composed by twenty-seven international writers, and published in 2007 by Hadley Rille Books and edited by Eric T Reynolds.
Featured within its pages is Seagull Inn, a chilling tale set on Hilbre Island, just off the coast of mainland Wirral in Cheshire, England. Author Adele Cosgrove-Bray combines fantasy with factual local history and her knowledge of the three islands in a tale destined to enthral even those familiar with Hilbre.
Available now from all good bookstores, or direct from the publisher.
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Words from Wordsmiths!
 | West Kirby Library in Wirral will host an evening of horror, humour and beauty - diverse readings of original fiction by members of Riverside Writers.
Words from Wordsmiths will take place on Monday April 7th, 2008, from 7pm-9pm, this public event is part of Wirral Book Fest.
All enquiries: West Kirby Library.
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Quiet Lives!
 | Four tales of seemingly quiet lives:-
Dear Harry: Armajeet writes a parting letter to Harry. He is lovely but she's tired of too much compromise - and her friends would rip him to shreds.
Mirror: Having violated Melissa's hospitality, a salesman learns that not all witches comply with New Age stereotypes.
The Four Seasons: When Granny visits, teenager Megan and her mother face a yawning generation gap.
Beautiful: Dawn is as tall as a man and twice as broad, yet her determined quest for love, passion and beauty will strike a chord with everyone who has ever felt disheartened by their own reflection.
Written by Adele Cosgrove-Bray and published in February 2008 by Amazon.com, Quiet Lives is now available to buy.
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Fearsome Fae!
 | A visit to her local New Age shop brings Tracy into conflict with the notorious Fae of Caldy Hill!
This story, called Old World Magic, features in a new Fantasy anthology from Hadley Rille Books, and is written by Wirral author Adele Cosgrove-Bray. "I enjoy blending local history with folklore," she said in a recent interview on Cath Bore's morning show on the Cheshire peninsula's own 7 Waves Radio.
The anthology, Ruins Metropolis, (ISBN 978-0-9785148-9-1) was edited by Eric T Reynolds and Rose Reynolds. It is available from all good bookshops and from on-line book vendors.
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