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Slogging at Blogging & A Jacket Full of Strange Tales

Slogging at Blogging & A Jacket Full of Strange Tales

Following their Fiction Foundations course and regular writing meet-ups, the Northern Wordsmiths are back – this time with a new blog, a fresh logo, and a sneak peek at what’s coming next.

Here we are at last. The Northern Wordsmiths blog is up and running. We’re still at the baby stage, teaching ourselves to toddle. Our Tech Gurus, in the guise of Ellen and Chelsea (Chairperson and Secretary, respectively), are blasting the keyboards to make sense of all the Computer Knowledge that’s needed to make it work sufficiently and efficiently.

Our Whizz-Kid and Treasurer, Liam, who baulked at the idea of an AI Logo, came up with this ‘Interesting Icon’ (exclusive to us), sans the help of the dreaded robots, who know not how to be human. 

Can we coax our followers and subscribers to scribble the odd sentence or two in the comments section at the end of each story submission? If you readers could holler out some adjectives, we’d be obliged and delighted! You’ll get your reward in heaven! We may give you all a kick-start if we can persuade our own Stuart to run ‘Critic’s Corner’!

Click on one of the links and get cracking. Read, subscribe, comment, ENJOY. 

https://northernwordsmiths.com 

We’re proud to welcome a brand-new addition to the authors’ spot on Northern Wordsmiths. She’s Lisa Marie Mottert. She’ll be submitting to the blog soon. She’s Sheila’s (competition-finder, scout, author) good friend and fellow writer from way back. 

That’s another American author added to our band of bloggers, the other one being our dear Frank Duncan. Although we can’t meet up to ‘Sit and Write’, we keep in close touch via Northern Wordsmiths WhatsApp from the USA. “O, Say Can You See …”

Left to Right- Chelsea Hall, Ellen Wiltshire, Sheila Newton, Liam Telford.

Sheila would also like to share the cover of her upcoming short story collection, ‘Strange Tales Are These.

… and to Doctor Mike Hollows of New Writing North and Professional Writing Academy – THANKS FOR EVERYTHING.  

Who are the Northern Wordmiths? In case you missed it, we caught up with this group of Fiction Foundations alumni (2024) who stayed connected after the course and continued to support one another in their writing. Find out more about their journey in this previous blog.

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The Northern Wordsmiths

Our committee and members:

About:

Ellen Wiltshire (Chairperson)

Ellen loves to explore the hills of Northumberland, get between the pages of a good book, and follow the paths of the past and the folklore of yore. Writing primarily historical fiction, her stories are often imbued with a touch of the supernatural. She lives in North Tyneside with her partner.

Chelsea Hall (Secretary)

Chelsea spends her time surrounded by animals, be that with her dog-walking business; her happy spaniel – Oscar; her amazing horse – Roo. She’s a reader and writer of all things fantasy and horror. She spends her free time walking in the countryside with Oscar.

Liam Telford (Treasurer)

Liam is a carer and writer. A lifelong sci-fi and fantasy reader inspired by the craft of ‘worldbuilding’, he explores as many of the myriad worlds of fiction as he can lay his mitts on. He currently resides in Newcastle, daydreaming wild and vivid dreams of making something cool and fantastic in fictional writing and having people read it. He fully hopes to be a published author by the time he reaches thirty.

Sheila Newton (Competition-finder General + Scout

Sheila is a retired nurse and further education teacher. She devotes much time to her garden; writes avidly and reads anything she can get her hands on. She enjoys wandering Northumberland, taking in sights, sounds and scents of countryside and coast. She lives in North Shields with her husband and two beautiful but incorrigible cats; one black, one white.

Frank Duncan (member, aforementioned)

Stuart Hickson (member, aforementioned)

Amy Golding (member, dormant)

Lucy Wraight (member, dormant)

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