Hi all! After going through the beauty that is the Lemn Sissay experience at the end of March, and whilst waiting for Michael Sauter's event to come around on the 23rd of April, I decided to divert off the main path and try out another creative writing group, that is based near to where I live - the Wolsey Writers group! So, what is this all about? Well, Wolsey Writers is a creative writing meetup that was originally set-up in 2015 by Katie Ward , a former creative writing lecturer at the University of Suffolk, and a published author of two novels, having written Girl Reading in 2013 (as well as being nominated for the Clarissa Luard by Hilary Mantel the same year), as well as Pathways in 2024. Each month, the group dives in to different literary topics, and external speakers from the Suffolk literary community are invited into the group from time-to-time to give talks in areas that are within their area of expertise. It is based at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, and ...