Verulam Writers' Circle Home Page

21 February 2009 saw our third annual conference, featuring publisher Barry Cunningham and top agents John Jarrold and Jonathan Pegg. Click here for a little retrospective of this and Get Writing 2008

Established more than 50 years ago, Verulam Writers' Circle is one of the premier organisations for writers in Hertfordshire, England. Based in St Albans, it meets regularly at two local venues, offering writers' workshops, manuscript evenings and much more.

We welcome all writers, whether writing fiction or non-fiction and whether writing for pleasure or for publication. We offer encouragement through constructive critique, talks, competitions and workshops. Most of all, we love writing and writers.

As well as our meetings, this website has a Member Only area where writers can show work to their peers in a secure and friendly environment.

Use the links on the left to navigate around our site.

VWC Open Mic Evening at The Goat, Sopwell Lane, St Albans, 25 June 2009

Many thanks to all who took part in our brilliantly successful Open Mic Evening and special thanks to The Goat for hosting us and to Brian Higgins for compering!

Latest:

Next meeting - 1 Jul: St Michael's - Manuscript surgery ***NB: Owing to the St Michael's Folk Festival, parking will be at a premium.****
Coming soon - 8 July: ~~The Goat~~ The Six Bells, St Michael's, for manuscripts, chat and a tipple if you choose. 8pm until we all go home.
Some new links have been added to the Member sites page

Must read:

VWC members take their writing seriously. Check out the following, because nothing says "well done" like a royalty cheque:

Space Captain Smith and God Emperor of Didcot by Toby Frost, absolute ripping fun and created in the hotbed of writing that is...well, us!
Times interview with Joan Rice on publication of her World War II memoir Sand In My Shoes (Amazon.co.uk) (Play.com)
Kate Allan's The Lady Soldier (co-authored with Michelle Styles, writing as Jennifer Lindsay) can now be bought directly from the author (contact via VWC).
VWC member Wendy Turner has a short story in Saucy Shorts for Chefs, - every sale donates £1 to Breast Cancer Campaign. You know what do do.
Or try one of chairman John Spencer's array of paranormal books (with Anne Spencer);
Jean Gardner's Houses of the Art Deco Years reveals much more than you imagined possible about your suburban landscape;
Honorary life member Gillian Thornton's Successful Article Writing (from The "Writers News" Library of Writing) may be trickier to track down (but contact the author via VWC and we can probably sort one out for you);
And the same is true of Jonathan Pinnock's Professional DCOM Application Development, one of many by Jon aimed at those who actually understand how computers work.