PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN 2010
Meetings are held on alternate Thursdays at 7.45 p.m.Turner Room
Harrow Arts Centre
Uxbridge Road
Hatch End
Middlesex
HA5 4EA
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Thursday:
16th September 2010
HWC Judging Watford Entries
Harrow Arts Centre
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Monday:
20th September 2010, 19.30
Judging the entries in Watford
Cha Cha Cha Café, Watford
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Thursday:
30th September 2010
Read Your Own Work
At a member’s house
Writing on your feet !
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Thursday:
14th October 2010
Write On The Night
Harrow Arts Centre
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Thursday:
28th October 2010
Annual General Meeting – Positions Available: Secretary and Vice Chair
plus
Read Your Own Work
At a member’s house
People are encouraged to apply. If interested please be prepared to discuss how you would like to change things.
Also after the elections, a discussion will take place reviewing the last year and taking ideas for the next.
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Thursday:
11th November 2010
What Is A Story?
Harrow Arts Centre
A story have a certain number of key elements. Do you know what they are?
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Thursday:
25th November 2010
Fancy Facts – Story Based On Facts
At a member’s house
Start thinking about this now !
1500 words
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Thursday:
9th December 2010
Read Your Own Work – Preference Will Be Given to a Seasonal Theme
Harrow Arts Centre
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Thursday:
23rd December 2010
Christmas Party
At a member’s house
J’accuse
J’accuseHow could I ever forget
The long years of hurt you caused
Those tears that you made me shed
Those cries for help you ignored
You should have been there for me
To protect me as I fought
Locked in lonely agony
When my innocence was mauled
Every time I turned to you
Aching inside, bruised and raw
You said I’d made it all up
You pretended to be bored
Your own brother, goddammit!
How could you never have known?
Couldn’t bring yourself to expose
A brother who you adored.
He is married, you are old,
But I’m still your little girl lost,
Held hostage by that moment
When my life was suddenly paused.
This shame, fear, guilt and pain
Would have healed and been absolved
If only you had done something-
You were my mother, my God.
Maneesha
London, June 2007
©Maneesha Sharma
(Dedicated, with love, to someone dear who shall remain unnamed.)
