A new chap emailed us today and we naturally invited him to come along. Anne and I were there before 8pm. He turned up at 8 and we chatted... at 8.20 it looked like it would just be the three of us (embarrassing). Luckily, a couple of other members joined us and it turned out to be a good session with three readings. Anne wrote a poem called an amusing pantoum which I had to look up just before she read it out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantoum).

What We Were Thinking Just Before The End

Meet the authors and hear some mind-blowing extracts and after the interval a rare treat — a young author finding great international success: Joe Dunthorne*, author of "Submarine", for reading and Q&A.

28th May, 8pm
Willesden Green Library Centre, Studio 2.
95 High Road
Willesden, London
NW10 2SF

Admission is free. Refreshments will be provided, and plenty of opportunity to get a copy of the stunning (we're prejudiced) new book. WGwg's previous collection won a major national award, but we're too modest to mention it (see links, everywhere!).

* Joe Dunthorne has been compared to a new J. D. Salinger, by no less than a reviewer in the New York Times. The same comparison has been drawn by other reviewers, so don't miss this chance to meet this interesting young author. (www.joedunthorne.com)

You can now join the WGwg Facebook group.

I made this cos I was bored out of my brain. By made it, I mean, I nicked the photo online the put the letters on via photoshop. But it's still pretty.

Peter Webb put on an enthralling one man show based on his record-making circumnavigation of Spitsbergen in an open boat (Ice Bears and Kotick, Seafarer Books 2008)

As featured on Midweek with Libby Purves, BBC Radio 4

Announcing a new anthology, working title "the new anthology". The previous anthology published by Willesden Writers' Group won first prize in the national Arts Council England/Raymond Williams award. Here's what you need to know, a proclamation by order of the most high Secretary:

1. Closing date is 5pm Wednesday October 31^st. If we don't receive your entry by then, it ain't going in the book, no matter how good it is.

2. Entries will be accepted from both present and past members of the group.

3. Entries can be in the form of a short story, a chapter of a book, poetry or any other form of creative writing.

4. You can submit up to 3 poems (up to 50 lines each) and/or 2 pieces of prose up to 4,000 words.

5. Entries must be typed on A4 paper, double spaced and handed in at the Writers Group on a Thursday. If you are not able to get to the writers group, then please email your submission to mullaneanne@aol.com.

6. Please feel free to come along between now and Oct 31^st in order to get feedback from the group on the piece you are working on for submission.

7. If your work is accepted for inclusion, we will then require it in a form that can be downloaded onto a computer i.e. sent online or via a floppy disk.

8. If you wish your manuscript and/or floppy disk returned to you, you must either pick it up from the workshop after the judging, or enclose an SAE with your submission.

9. By sending in a submission you are agreeing to your work being edited and also to it being published in the new anthology, however, you retain copyright.

10. Successful submissions will be notified in the New Year, the judges' decision is final.

11. Don't forget to put your name, address and contact details on your entry!

May the best be included and may you get painful whitlows if you send in rubbish.