My Mother And The Country

Khalid has written this piece about his Mother and her extraordinairy life. This work was shown to the writers group in Pudsey who all agreed that perfect English is not necessarily the main ingredient in telling a powerful story which has been written in another language. Too much attention to grammar and spelling and the [...]

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School Days

At last weeks workshop we were looking at Kia’s work that describes his first day at school and how his Dad had forgotten to collect him. This seemed to strike a chord with the rest of the group. Especially with Mona who had the audacity to bite her teacher on her first day at school. [...]

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Giddy Aunts

Molly’s Auntie Rhoda and Uncle Jim
We’ve been focussing on identity in the Relay workshops and looking at our own family photos as a way of tapping into the richness of our personal experiences. I’ve mentioned Molly’s piece of writing before, about her sophisticated Auntie Rhoda who owned the much longed for ornament of a naked [...]

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Independence Day

Pudsey and Calverley writers groups are a lively and independent lot who know just how they want things to be done. This was apparent on Friday when the group were asked to start work on a writing exercise during the workshop based around the photographs and objects they had brought in with them.
We soon [...]

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The First Day Of The Second World War And Other Stories

It’s asking quite a lot of people to give up the comfort of their home on a cold February evening and to take a chance on a creative writing workshop with a bunch of people they’ve mostly never met before. So bearing this in mind I think its safe to say that the first Relay [...]

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