Welcome to The Write Place. Let me make things quite clear. I did not intend to have a blog for my writing school. However, having nagged my students about the benefits of social media and how they must promote themselves as authors it was a tad remiss of me not to do the same for the school that has been the spring board for so many talented writers.
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| Elaine Everest |
TWP, as it is fondly called, has been in existence for seven years. Before that, as well as being a full time writer, I taught creative writing for Kent Adult Education. After five years I realised that I was fed up with the amount of admin being pushed onto tutors when all I wanted to do was to help my students become writers. I left, found a supportive community at the Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford and my students followed.
We are a very active school. Workshops, retreats, competitions, short stories, articles, novels, radio - you name it and we do it and often very well. We love trips and parties and many who attend classes are also members of the Romantic Novelists' Association, either as full members or part of the New Writers' Scheme. Some of us are even graduates of the scheme and have participated in the annual Joan Hessayon Award event. We certainly support the RNA - I'm a committee member as well.
Did I mention cake? We tend to celebrate any achievement at the TWP with cake. Homemade, shop bought - its all the same to us. Cake means we are doing well so hardly a week goes by without some sugary confection sitting beside the tea urn. We like tea (and wine) too!
In the weeks that follow you will meet some of the students as well as our friends and speakers who have come along to visit at The Mick Jagger Centre. For more information about TWP or to be nosey about our members please visit our website www.thewriteplace.org.uk
Speak again soon!
Elaine
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