NATIONAL EVENTS

Drama Workshop - Saturday 13 March, 2010 from 11.00am to 4.00pm
at: The Helios Centre, 116 Judd Street, off Euston Road, London WC1H 9NS.
(Judd Street is on the south side of Euston Road not far from Euston and Kings Cross tube stations and Kings Cross Thameslink.)

If you have a play to be read, please contact Benita Cullingford
Cost: £10.00 payable in advance. Please bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea available.

Chawton House visit - Tuesday 13 April 2010 - 11.30am.

Chawton House was once the home of Edward Austen Knight, Jane Austen's brother, and now houses a remarkable collection of women's writing from 1600 to 1830. The day will begin with a walking tour of the library, together with a verbal history, followed by lunch, and time to explore the grounds and gardens. Visits to the Jane Austen Museum are also available, but the entrance fee is NOT included in the price of the tour.

Cost: £22 members, £23 guests. Application form in the February issue of The Woman Writer.

Journalists Workshop - Tuesday 20 April 2010 at The Writers' House, 13 Haydon Street, London EC3N 1DB. Details from workshop leader Wendy Hughes.

Poetry Day - Friday 23 April 2010 at The Writers' House, 13 Haydon Street, London EC3N 1DB. Details from workshop leader Anita Marie Sackett.

SWWJ Weekend Conference 24– 26 September 2010

The Conference will be held at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and will be special as it toasts the 100th year anniversary of former President Joyce Grenfell's birth, and also the centenary year of The Woman Writer.

Speakers and guests include Professor Janet Todd, internationally renowned scholar of early women writers, Jenny Rose, exponent of Joyce Grenfell's monologues, and Felix Francis, son of Dick, who will talk about crime writing. Other workshop leaders include: Lynne Hackles, Patrick Forsythe, Ruth Symes, Paddy Gormley, Jude Simpson, and Zoe King. More information in the February 2010 edition of The Woman Writer. (Those wishing to attend may pay in three instalments.)