Member News

Between Friends, a new play by Carolyn Pertwee, with Rosalind Adler, opens at the O S O Arts Centre, Barnes, on 10 November, 2008. Full details here.

Dee La Verdera won first prize in the Southern Daily Echo Article Writing competition held at this year's Winchester Conference.

Pamela Birley was Highly Commended in another Winchester Conference competition for her short story, The London Transport Bus.

Dorothy Pope has won one First and one Joint Second prize in the Poetry Society's Poetry News, and The Coventry Telegraph. She has also recently featured in The Harrow Observer.

Long-time member Eileen Lady Ryder celebrated her 100th birthday in July. She was SWWJ Chairman during the 1980s, and in 1996, she won 3rd place in the Theodore Roscoe Cup Competition for the first chapter of a work of non-fiction. Amongst her many other successes was a placing in FUN91, a competition judged by Ronnie Corbett to find the funniest poem in the UK.