Short Story Hints from a Master

In case anyone doesn’t know, Neil Gaiman is a very successful writer of fantasy stories. His ‘American Gods’ was adapted for television recently and, many years ago now, he collaborated on a favourite book of mine, ‘Good Omens’, with Terry Pratchett Here is a link to a page on the BBC’s website on which he …

Christmas Greetings To You

December meetings – December writing prompts

Some festive, some seasonal, some simply wintry – the writing prompts are out and you can view them here.

Writing prompts for our November meetings

One of our newest members, Katherine Franklin, has prepared our latest set of writings prompts. You can see them below

WiSE Writer Long-listed in Short Story Competition

Several members of WiSE entered this year’s Sheffield Authors Short Story Competition, and we are proud to announce that Ken Hutton, one of our members, has made it on to the long-list. We now wish him every success as the competition proceeds. The competition is organised by Sheffield Authors, is part of the Off the …

WiSE to launch latest anthology at Stannington Story Festival

Stannington Story Festival marks the anniversary of the advent of volunteer management in Stannington Library on Monday 29th September 2014. That’s five years ago, but library volunteers have successfully kept it open, and now it is thriving SPLASH! is the seventh anthology to emerge from the group and its former constituents The launch event begins …

Writing prompts for October

October’s WiSE meetings will be held at 6.00 pm in Ecclesfield Library on Wednesday 2nd and 1.00 pm in Stannington Library on Saturday 12th. The Stannington meeting is taking place a week late because Saturday 5th, Sunday 6th and Monday 7th October sees the Stannington Story Festival take place in the library and in the …

September writing prompts posted

WiSE – Writers in Stannington and Ecclesfield has posted a new set of writing prompts. Primarily, these are for use by group members at one or other of our September meetings. To see these new prompts, go to https://wisewritersgroup.wordpress.com/prompts/ Meetings of WiSE – Writers in Stannington and Ecclesfield for September will take place on Wednesday …

What’s the most powerful word in the English language?

BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen On Monday 22nd July, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 30-minutes discussion of the word ‘the’ – the most powerful word in the English language You don’t believe it? Read the shows blurb or listen to the whole thing Learn how, where, when and why the word …

Sheffield Authors Short Story Competition 2019

Those wonderful people at sheffieldauthors.co.uk have launched their short story competition for 2019 Read on for competition Entry Details: The only conditions are that stories must have a Sheffield theme and be 1000 words long. We won’t penalise for the odd word or two out – but will mark it down for more than that. …