The June meeting will be held in our new venue: the Tower Arts Centre, which is off Romsey Road not far from the University.

Come along from 6:30pm to enjoy the Book Fair — an excellent opportunity to show off your books (whether self- or traditionally published) to your fellow writers, or if you are working towards publication, a great chance to find out how it’s done!

We’re delighted to have as our main speaker the legendary Della Galton. She’s a novelist, short story writer and journalist with over 35 years’ experience. Her writing credits include fifteen novels, several novellas, six non fiction books and over 2000 short stories published in the UK and abroad.  

She was the agony aunt for Writers’ Forum magazine and is a qualified Adult Education tutor. 

Her latest novels, The Bluebell Cliff series and The Puddleduck Farm series, are published by Boldwood Books. Her ‘How to Write’ Books are available from Amazon. For more information see www.dellagalton.co.uk

Her talk is titled My Path to Publication and some very important things I’ve learned – that may help you too (including SIX important rules).

Our guest speaker is AJ Spencer, who’ll be sharing tips on how to write believable LGBTQ+ Characters; how to show (not just tell) that your character is LGBTQ+, how to avoid avoid the ‘token gay character’ trope, and what topics are appropriate to write about. 

Della is judging our competition this month. The results will be announced at the end of the meeting, so if you’ve entered, do attend — if you win, you’ll get a certificate and we’ll all celebrate with you.

Entry is free for members, £10 for non-members, and just £2 for students. No booking required — just turn up. For help finding the Tower Arts centre, see here. 

We hope to see many of you there for this not-to-be-missed meeting!