The proposal is to elect the Programme Secretary, Membership Secretary, Newsletter Editor, Webmaster and Publicity Officer at the AGM.  The current officers are all willing to stand for re-election.

Catherine teaches at the University of Swansea.  Her most recent work A Future for Criticism puts forward the case for increased attention to the joy of fiction and the way it engages readers.

She supports the work of GENCAS, the Centre for Research into gender and culture in Society.

Useful aids that help with writing – discussion of reference books, writing courses, ‘learning-to-write books’ - are they any good?

Writers associations (Romantic Novelists, Historical Novel Society, etc.), companies that will criticize your writing (such as Cornerstones), short story competitions, information about agents and publishers, inspiration and sources for what we write, websites and writing software, in fact anything that members have found useful - or not. 

All members are welcome to bring along their experiences, good and bad, and should be prepared to participate.

Competitors bring a printed copy of their anonymous entry to the meeting.  Word limit of 250 words.

Cambridge Writers Les Brookes and Hannah Hooton share the floor and talk to us about how they approach their writing, and their experience of being published.

Richard Gould leads a workshop on the challenge of describing physical features of characters.

Be ready to participate in group discussion, listen to ideas and share your own.

Come and meet one of Britain's best loved poets.  Since her bestselling debut Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope has been responsible for some of the best-known and most-quoted lines in contemporary poetry.

She was voted the listeners' choice in a BBC Radio 4 poll in 198 and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010 .