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GOLDENFORD
EVENTS CALENDAR 2010
1.
Sat 9/10/10: Mapping Your Story (A Writers' Workshop)
- part of the 2010 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
2pm-5pm - Reeves Room, Parish Church Hall, Church Road
Leatherhead, KT22 8AY
Three authors from Goldenford Publishers Ltd take you
on a journey through the craft of writing your story,
using memories and other triggers, for short or long
fiction. Through practical exercises you’ll learn how
to develop ideas, create characters, plot your story
and bring your journey to a pleasing conclusion.
Cost: £10, Concessions £8
Email: frances@goldenford.co.uk
/ tel: 01372 456778
2. Wed 27 October 2010: Music and The Muse
2.45pm to 4pm - Guildford Institute, Ward Street, Guildford
GU1 4LH
A cornucopia of entertainment will be provided by three
Guildford writers from Goldenford Publishers Limited.
The selection of music evoked by their novels, takes
the audience to exotic places, such as India and Sri
Lanka , to medieval times and Henry VIII’s Court, as
well as war-time Britain , the sixties and eighties.
References to classical and Indian music permeate Irene
Black’s novels, The Moon’s Complexion and Darshan. Jackie
Luben’s selections come from her 20th century novels,
A Bottle of Plonk and Tainted Tree, while Jay Margrave’s
choices invoke her historical mysteries, The Gawain
Quest, Luther’s Ambassadors and her current novel, The
Nine lives of Kit Marlowe.
Cost: £6 or £5 for Guildford Institute Members
Contact Guildford Institute 01483 562142 / email info@guildford-institute.org.uk.
3. Sat 30/10/10: Mapping Your Story (A Writers' Workshop)
10am to 2pm - Guildford Institute, Ward Street, Guildford
GU1 4LH
Three authors from Goldenford Publishers Ltd take you
on a journey through the craft of writing your story,
using memories and other triggers, for short or long
fiction. Through practical exercises you’ll learn how
to develop ideas, create characters, plot your story
and bring your journey to a pleasing conclusion.
Cost: £10 or £8 for Guildford Institute
Members
Contact Guildford Institute 01483 562142 / email info@guildford-institute.org.uk.
PAST
EVENTS
"Sense
And Sensitivity" Writers Workshop 12th May 2010
Due
too the success of this workshop (first given in 2009
- see details below), it was repeated as part of the
Brighton Festival Fringe, at the Friends Meeting House,
Ship Street Brighton.
Staines
Synagogue October 2009
Three
of our writers were invited to give a talk at Staines
Synagogue in October about their books.
'Sense
and Sensitivity' October 2009
A
Writers' Workshop: Three Goldenford authors ran a two-part
workshop, the first session being in Leatherhead on
October 10 as part of the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
programme (www.arts-alive.co.uk). Called 'Sense and
Sensitivity - Five Senses in Fiction', it is was designed
to encourage and inspire new and not so new writers
by providing stimuli from music, touch, sight, hearing
and taste was held from 2pm to 5pm at the Leatherhead
Institute, 67 High Street Leatherhead - Admission £5.
The second session was a week later on October 17 and
was part of Guildford Book Festival and continued the
theme. It was held from 10am to 1pm at the Guildford
Institute, Ward Street, Guildford.
Goldenford
Writers have been travelling recently
Jay Margrave
went to the American Historical Novel Society's Conference
in Chicago in June and then on to Boston to give a presentation
to a readers' group who had chosen The Gawain Quest as one
of their books to read. They liked it so much they wanted
to 'meet the author'.
Irene Black
and Jacquelynn Luben took part in the twinning celebrations
of Guildford and Freiburg at the same time, in Freiburg,
Irene reading from her novels from a covered stage to audiences
listening in pouring rain or sweltering heat. Jacquelynn,
who had been invited by the German British Society to read
in the Schwanhäuser Bookshop, did not have to worry about
the changeable weather.
As
you can see from the picture,Goldenford had great success
at the June 2008 Freiburg Twinning Festival as shown by
the repeat invitation for 2009!
Goldenford
author Irene Black was shortlisted in the Bristol
Prize for her short story, The Loi Krathong, which
is included in the award anthology.
