The last couple of weeks have passed in a rather manic blur and suddenly autumn seems to be upon us - chilly evenings, mist hanging low over the river in the mornings and the leaves definitely beginning to turn. And, as usual, autumn brings the Gloucestershire Writers' Network event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival - for which we now have our competition winners lined up. I was responsible for collating the entries but didn't read them until after the judging - and then I realised what an onerous task we had set our judges! Not only did we have a very healthy number of entries this year, they were of really excellent quality. But Roy MacFarlane did stirling work with the poetry entries and Lania Knight did a great job on the prose ones. They'll both be reading at the Festival event too, on Sunday October 15th, so it should be a great evening.
Yesterday "Chasing The Horizon", the anthology from our Catchword group in Cirencester, arrived from the printers. Ten of us have contributed a mix of poems and short stories and it makes an interesting and entertaining read. It's available locally and from members of the group. We meet weekly in the hall of Ashcroft Methodist Church, which will be open to all on Saturday as part of the national annual Heritage Open Days event; the anthology will be on sale there too, so, if you're in the Cirencester area, do call in, meet some of us over a coffee and maybe treat yourself to a copy.
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