BEAUTIFUL SILVER CUPS PRESENTED TO SWWJ MEMBERS DURING OUR SPRING EVENT AT NATIONAL LIBERAL CLUB, WHITEHALL

Such a fun and well organised afternoon in London yesterday with our SWWJ team who organised the Spring Tea Programme.  Writers are usually very interesting folk and we were pleased to see so many new faces networking among our regular members.  Numerous new books and features are ready for publication this spring and we will put aside time to read them.  I bought a couple and hope to have a good reading session when the time is right.  

Sylvia Kent with judge and guest speaker Elaine Everest

As this was also 'Competition Award Day', it was lovely to meet some of our writers who picked up prizes, including Beryl Fleming, Marilyn Pemberton and Roberta Grieve, then Finola Holiday, Dorothy Pope and Claire Dyer - brilliant poets and then me who was so chuffed to receive the John Walter Salver (silver) for my non-fiction piece of writing (a memoir).  Now you ask, who is or was John Walter? Well, for many years he was one of our Society's esteemed Patrons who was the fifth John Walter, the first being Editor and founder of The Times in 1785.  If you want to know more about this enigmatic gentleman, do check tomorrow's post offering on this blog. Second in this non-fiction competition was Pamela Payne and third Beryl Fleming.

Vivien Brown best-selling author

Huge appreciation offered to Vivien Brown, who looks after our competitors and judges, who herself is a best-selling author, and whose organisational skills are so much admired.  Many more photos on our website. 

Top novelist Sue Moorcroft and SWWJ Chairman Barbara Field-Holmes 

To find out more about us, why not pop along to view our website www.swwj.co.uk and there you can discover what makes us tick and learn about our amazing list of events coming up this year.  The most important is our 125th anniversary lunch which is to take place at Stationers' Hall in London on Thursday 2 May, 2019. Full details and booking form are on the website. @swwj See you there!