SYLVIA KENT'S READING & WRITING FORUM

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Thursday, July 03, 2025

BRENTWOOD WRITERS' CIRCLE MEMBERS AT SATURDAY'S BRENTWOOD ART FESTIVAL LAUNCH IN BAYTREE CENTRE

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 Last Saturday's fabulous day in Brentwood's Baytree Shopping Centre, with a sprinkling of jazz, art,  film, literature and, of cour...
Wednesday, July 02, 2025

LATEST NEWS FROM OUR GREAT FUN WALK TEAM

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  Over 75 Organisations Sign Up for 2025 Fun Walk 25 Jun John Baron predicts another bumper event. The organisers of the annual Fun Walk are...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

A CHANCE TO MEET SOME OF OUR BRENTWOOD WRITERS' CIRCLE MEMBERS ON SATURDAY IN THE BAY TREE CENTRE

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  Following today's interview with PhoenixFM radio presenter Michelle Ward on her regular morning programme Eat My Brunch, it was great ...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

MEETING MARINA WARNER AND MAGGI HAMBLING AT COLCHESTER

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F rom the first public ‘outing’ of award-winning writer and cultural mythographer   Marina Warner ’s new book   Sanctuary , to one of Britai...
Monday, June 16, 2025

GLORIFYING OUR ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL 2025

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Great weather to get out and about throughout the county and a chance to catch up with some of our annual festival friends: some have been w...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

YET ANOTHER BATCH OF OLDER PHOTOS FROM THE CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW IN FORMER YEARS

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I've found yet another batch of photos from past Chelsea Flower Shows - always the most magnificent day of the gardening year for me and...

MORE IMAGES FROM ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S FORMER SUMMER GARDEN SHOW AT CHELSEA - MEETING SOME FAMILIAR FACES

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  Sylvia & Lulu Over the last twenty years, it was often fun to spend the first day of the RHS's first large horticultural event of ...

SORRY TO HAVE MISSED YESTERDAY'S VIP DAY AT CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW. HERE ARE SOME SNAPS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. ONE OF MY FAVOURITE LONDON EVENTS

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James Reddell in wheelchair with his friends during an early visit to Chelsea Flower Show As a keen gardener after fifty years since joining...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

HERE WE GO WITH ANOTHER FABULOUS FUN WALK EVENT - COME JOIN US?

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The organisers of the annual Fun Walk are delighted to share that, thanks to support from local businesses and individuals, the 2025 Bonus P...
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Author, freelance columnist. Latest book Amberley published BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS is on Amazon & bookshops. Published work appears in Britain,USA and other overseas press & on-line. Following Freelance Writer of The Year award (Writing Magazine) my work has appeared in 81 titles and my FOLKLORE OF ESSEX contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. THE WOMAN WRITER was published by the History Press. This book outlines the history of the SWWJ’s 1894 foundation and includes our pioneering members in journalism, literature & poetry. Joyce Grenfell, former SWWJ President enjoys a special chapter. My books were reviewed in The Times and other dailies. As SWWJ’s archivist. I'm working on new historical research, contributing to on-line press, see my downloadable Kindle books. Also Facebook,Twitter & Amazon @sylviaakent & film/audio clips added. BARKING & DAGENHAM FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS and BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS. I won an SWWJ scholarship and became a Fellow of the Society,winning the John Walter Salver two years consecutively. I am now President of Brentwood Writers Circle, broadcasting on PhoenixFM, BBC Essex &other radio stations.
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About Me

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Sylvia Kent
Author, freelance columnist. Latest book Amberley published BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS is on Amazon & bookshops. Published work appears in Britain,USA and other overseas press & on-line. Following Freelance Writer of The Year award (Writing Magazine) my work has appeared in 81 titles and my FOLKLORE OF ESSEX contributed to Channel 5’s film COUNTY SECRETS. THE WOMAN WRITER was published by the History Press. This book outlines the history of the SWWJ’s 1894 foundation and includes our pioneering members in journalism, literature & poetry. Joyce Grenfell, former SWWJ President enjoys a special chapter. My books were reviewed in The Times and other dailies. As SWWJ’s archivist. I'm working on new historical research, contributing to on-line press, see my downloadable Kindle books. Also Facebook,Twitter & Amazon @sylviaakent & film/audio clips added. BARKING & DAGENHAM FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS and BRENTWOOD IN 50 BUILDINGS. I won an SWWJ scholarship and became a Fellow of the Society,winning the John Walter Salver two years consecutively. I am now President of Brentwood Writers Circle, broadcasting on PhoenixFM, BBC Essex &other radio stations.
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