Agent Ed comes to Leicester

On Thursday December 2nd, literary agent ED WILSON will be speaking at the Club.

Ed is part of Johnson & Alcock, a small but highly-regarded London literary agency whose clients are as diverse as Dick Francis, Beryl Bainbridge and Joan Collins. Ed will speak generally about the agenting process, including the impact digital technology is having on the publishing industry, and will be happy to meet new and budding authors. This is a FREE EVENT sponsored by Creative Leicestershire.  So spread the word.  7-9pm. Room 3, Leicester Adult Education College, Wellington Street, Leicester.

National Short Story Week

Most of us probably weren't aware of this, but 22nd-26th of November is National Short Story Week. The Club intends to celebrate this at our meeting on November 25th by dedicating the evening to ... the short story.  We'd like to have as many people read a story as possible.  So if you can keep your story lengths to around 1200 words, we should be able to get quite a few in.  Doesn't matter if it's a story you've read before or it's one you've edited down.  If there aren't enough stories to read on the night we'll cover the remaining time with normal manuscripts, but priority will be given to stories.  Enjoy.

Adjudication of the Article Competition

A little bit late in the day, perhaps, but tonight is the adjudication of the article competition, judged by a Leicester Mercury editor, no less.  Good luck to all concerned!