Category: Literature
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Writers Tackle Unanswerable Question
Our group of Creative Writers met on Wednesday 03 April 2024 to offer their contributions to the group, as usual. There were several topics on offer including “If only …” – the unanswerable question. Given that, for the moment, travel in time is not possible, we cannot answer the question “What would have happened if…
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Creative Writers take to Space
Images courtesy of Stable Diffusion On Wednesday 06 March 2024, our group of Creative Writers were issued a challenge – to write a short peace using a Science Fiction Theme, or a Magical Realism Theme, or a continuation of our theme on Conflict. Always up for a challenge, we heard ten amazing short stories, varying…
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Charles Dickens phones our Writers
Our Creative Writing Group met on Wednesday 07 February 2024 to share their work on three different briefs. The first brief was ‘Conflict’, the second was one side of a phone call (making the other side’s contribution implied but clear), and the third brief was to describe a room or place really clearly. On Conflict,…
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It is All Change at Creative Writing
On Wednesday 06 December 2023, a group of budding authors and poets met to read some of their works to the group providing both entertainment and food for thought. The optional theme for the meeting was “All Change” and we heard stories about coping with recent rail strikes, the consequences of winning “Who Wants to…
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Cornucopia of Creativity in Kenton!
On Wednesday 22 November 2023 we had our Creative Activities session featuring short works by our our Creative Authors and artworks by our Watercolour Group. The art was of a very high standard, and exhibited on one side of our meeting room. As you can see below, we have a group where all levels are…
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Creativity Comes to the Fore
Wednesday 23 November 2022 saw creativity coming to the fore at Kenton & District U3A at a special event held in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. It started with a series of short readings collated from the various assignments undertaken by the Creative Writing Group. It started with the Abdication Broadcast of 1936; many will…