FLASH FICTION COMPETITION FOR DECEMBER 2024

For December's flash fiction competition, the theme is Message In A Bottle.

You are invited to write a piece of flash fiction - the criteria is as follows:

Minimum of 500 - Maximum of 800 words.
Please title your work clearly, but do not use the theme title.
Please do not put your name on the entry.
Format - word or pdf
Please check your entry carefully before emailing as changes cannot be made after submission.
Maximum of 2 entries per person
Please email your entry to Helen lels40@hotmail.com AND Ian ianwelland@hotmail.co.uk
Watford Writers' competitions are only open to those on the current email circulation list.
Date for final submission: FRIDAY 3 JANUARY 2025, 7pm.
Scoring will be open from 10am on Saturday 4 January to Noon on Friday 10 January 2025 - details on how to score will follow.
If you enter the competition, you must score - failure to score will result in your entry being disqualified!

Results to be announced at our Zoom Meeting on Monday 13 January 2025.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTER

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2024

KidsLit Meeting

Please see KidsLit page for more details

MONDAY 2 DECEMBER 2024

OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE MONTH SHALL BE AT:

QUAKERS MEETING HOUSE, 150 CHURCH ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 4QB

JINGLE and JANGLE

In person meeting at the Quakers’ Meeting Hall.

To get us in the festive mood, bring along your stories, poems, plays and pantomimes, with a festive feel. Please book a slot with an approximate timing via Helen lels40@hotmail.com and Ian ianwelland@hotmail.co.uk so we can plan the evening, Some festive sweet and savoury snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring a festive snacks contribution.

We start the fun at 7:30pm

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING STRUCTURE:

£5 per person (Hall only)

£5 per person (Zoom only)

£10 per person (Hall and Zoom)

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CUP FOR TEA / COFFEE

MONDAY 9 DECEMBER 2024

CHRISTMAS PARTY

MONDAY 16 DECEMBER 2024

ZOOM MEETING

MANUSCRIPT NIGHT + WRITERS BLOCK (tbc)

(Chairperson: Chris McDermott)

This shall be our last meeting of 2024!

Next meeting will be Monday 6 January.

FRIDAY 3 JANUARY 2025

FLASH FICTION COMPETITION - CLOSES 7pm TONIGHT!

Theme: Message In A Bottle

See above for details and entry criteria

All entries to be emailed to Helen lels40@hotmail.com AND Ian ianwelland@hotmail.co.uk by 7pm.

Scoring opens 10am on Saturday 4 January 2025 and will end at Noon on Friday 10 January 2025.

MONDAY 6 JANUARY 2025

OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE MONTH (and indeed 2025) SHALL BE AT:

QUAKERS MEETING HOUSE, 150 CHURCH ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 4QB

(Chairperson tbc)

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENING STARTS AT 7:30pm

THEME TO BE DECIDED

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING STRUCTURE:

£5 per person (Hall only)

£5 per person (Zoom only)

£10 per person (Hall and Zoom)

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CUP FOR TEA / COFFEE

MONDAY 13 JANUARY 2025

ZOOM MEETING

Chairperson: tbc

FLASH FICTION "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE" RESULTS NIGHT

It's results night and a chance to hear the entries

MONDAY 20 JANUARY 2025

ZOOM MEETING

Chairperson: tbc

MANUSCRIPT NIGHT (tbc)

Are you working on a novel, non-fiction, biography, autobiography, poem, article? Manuscript night is the perfect way to present your latest work and receive excellent critiques from fellow group writers.

If you would like to read up to a 1000 words (a little more to complete a chapter), then you are welcome to book a reading slot by emailing Helen lels40@hotmail.com

MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2025

ZOOM MEETING

Chairperson: tbc

THEME TO BE DECIDED

MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2025

OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE MONTH SHALL BE AT:

QUAKERS MEETING HOUSE, 150 CHURCH ROAD, WATFORD, WD17 4QB

(Chairperson tbc)

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENING STARTS AT 7:30pm

THEME TO BE DECIDED (tbc)

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING STRUCTURE:

£5 per person (Hall only)

£5 per person (Zoom only)

£10 per person (Hall and Zoom)

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CUP FOR TEA / COFFEE

MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2025

ZOOM MEETING

(Chairperson tbc)

MANUSCRIPT NIGHT (tbc)

If you would like to read up to a 1000 words (a little more to complete a chapter), then you are welcome to book a reading slot by emailing Helen lels40@hotmail.com

MONDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2025

ZOOM MEETING

(Chairperson tbc)

THEME TO BE DECIDED