Written Word Group

Written Word, Jilly Kidd, Prop.	Click below to go there: Written Word
Real Life Bio. Adele Ward is an author and fiction editor working for Bluechrome Publishing in the UK. Her poetry collection, Never-Never Land, is due out from Bluechrome in November. She has also been published by John Murray and her poems have been broadcast on national and local radio in the UK. One of her poems was a first prizewinner in the recent International Féile Filíochta poetry competition based in Dublin. Adele worked as a journalist for many years and has an MA in creative writing from Poet Laureate Andrew Motion's course at the Royal Holloway, University of London.	Regular column by Adele Ward. Meet an author on Itunes

Written Word Group	Website: Written Word
The mission of the Written Word group is to encourage and support the development of all forms of writing on Second Life. The group provides display space for writers (published and aspiring) in SL. It also provides display space for publishers interested in establishing contact with the writing community in SL. The group also arranges events to strengthen the writing community. Writers in languages other than English are very welcome.	Open membership: to join, in SL, search for INKsters under groups. Click on the Join button.
Sundays 2pm SLT: The Meet the Author show is on alternate Sundays and presents a published author interviewed by Adele Ward AKA Jilly Kidd. This event is broadcast by SLCN TV, Second Life's Cable Network.	Past shows Podcast/vidcast
Wednesdays 2pm SLT: Hastings Bournemouth hosts the Written Word Writers' Circle on the Waterstage. Bring along writing in various forms to read it and receive feedback. This event is in SL Voice but text and assistance are also available for those who need it.	Go to Cookie Welcome Center
Writing competitions -- monthly. Each month the Written Word group offers a writing competition in some specified area. Areas may include general poetry, one-act plays, sonnets, essays, humorous essays, etc. Watch for announcements of competitions or join one of the writing groups on Cookie to get notices.
Online publications recommended by the Written Word group	Verda, a novel by Hastings Bournemouth (First 3 chapters)
Web radio and TV	Meet the Author
Meet an author, upcoming shows The months are launch dates so the shows will be near then: Trevor Byrne, Ghosts & Lightning (June) Happy or unhappy, all families are a mystery. None more than the Cullens. Having escaped their clutches and moved across the water, Denny is just beginning to make a life for himself when a call from his sister brings him back to Dublin, city of his birth. Back to square one. As if squabbling siblings and unhelpful childhood friends weren't trouble enough, a ghost starts making appearances in the family home and Denny’s life starts to get a lot more complicated. Full of riotous laughter, wonderment and love found in the most unlikely places, Ghosts and Lightning is an exuberant tale of someone trying to do the right thing surrounded by the wrong choices. It is also a revealing chronicle of our times from an exceptional new Irish talent. Helen Walsh, Once Upon a Time in England (June) On the coldest night of 1975, a young man with shock-red hair tears though the snowbound streets of Warrington's toughest housing estate. He is Robbie Fitzgerald, and he is running for his life - and that of his young family. In his heart, Robbie knows the odds are stacked against them. In this unbending Northern town, he has married the beautiful brown nurse who once stitched up his wounds. Susheela is his Tamil Princess, but in the real world, the Fitzgeralds have to face up to prejudice, poverty and sheer naked hatred from their neighbours. Now Robbie has seen a way out, and he's sprinting to his date with destiny... Over thirteen years of struggle, aspiration, achievement, misunderstandings, near-misses and shattered dreams, Helen Walsh plunges us into the lives and loves of the young, doomed Fitzgerald family. She shows herself to be a brilliant chronicler of our people and our times. And in the Fitzgeralds, she has created a family who will stay in your heart, long after the final page. Once Upon A Time In England offers an unforgettable portrait of the world in which we live, and confirms Helen Walsh as a writer of searing power. John Geiger, The Third Man Factor (July) The Third Man Factor tells the revealing story behind an extraordinary idea: that people at the ve ry edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a benevolent presence beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive. If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an unusual delusion shared by a few overstressed minds. But the amazing thing is this: over the years, the experience has occurred again and again, to mountaineers, divers, polar explorers, prisoners of war, solo sailors, aviators, astronauts and 9/11 survivors. All have escaped traumatic events only to tell strikingly similar stories of having experienced the close presence of a helper or guardian. The mysterious force has been explained as everything from hallucination to divine intervention. Recent neurological research suggests something else. In The Third Man Factor John Geiger combines history, scientific analysis and great adventure stories to explain this secret to survival, a Third Man who — in the words of legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner — ‘leads you out of the impossible.’ Dave Simpson, The Fallen (August) Ever been held hostage in a dressing room with your parents? Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or abandoned at a foreign airport? Ev er been asked to play at one of the UK’s biggest music festivals with musicians you’ve just met who are covered in blood, or taken part in a ‘recording session’ in a speeding Transit? If so you’ve probably been in The Fall. Dave Simpson made it his mission to track down everyone who has ever played in Britain’s most berserk, brilliant group. He uncovers a changing Britain, tales of madness and genius, and wreaks havoc on his personal life. Mark Sarvas, Harry, Revised (August) – based in the US Harry Rent, recently widowed and struggling to deal with the loss, finds himself in an unfortunate conundrum. He finds himself in love. From Harry's first hapless pursuit of Molly, the waitress at his local diner, we follow the transformation of one man (a little past his prime), who must embrace the future by finally facing up to his past. Harry, Revised is enormously funny and moving, a tale of love and its complications.

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