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Writers on writing
This is where you can write about Writing. Discuss your ideas with fellow writers. Contribute your book reviews and discuss the lives of authors.
New writers can submit an article for appraisal by our experienced and published authors and journalists.
Writer’s Retreat at Chalet La Giettaz
Stories abound of writers crafting masterpieces in abject conditions. A blind John Milton doggedly recited Paradise Lost to his daughters, while Jane Austen wrote her peerless novels on odd bits of paper carefully tucked away when her social duties as lady of the house took precedence. Tolstoy scribbled Anna Karenina while running a vast... »
GET STUFFED – and other advice for travel guide writers
Wendy Mewes almost bites off more than she can chew I was asked to write the new Footprint guide to Brittany in June 2009. It looked a decent contract: reasonable recompense, good expenses, and a fairly free hand for choosing my subject matter. But as is always the case with time-sensitive publications, it turned into... »
Wendy Mewes: Writer in the Landscape
WRITER IN THE LANDSCAPE Walking and Writing Course This walking and writing course is for anyone seeking to develop their work through inspiration from the natural world and man’s complex relationship with nature. Come and explore Brittany’s immensely varied landscape as a pathway to creative resources. Location: BRITTANY, NW FRANCE A fantastic coastline and rich interior of forests... »
Wendy Mewes has a new, regular column on Brittany Writers Magazine
WENDY MEWES is the author of the Footprint Travel Guide to Brittany (2010). She has written seven other books about Brittany including Discovering the History of Brittany and Walking the Brittany Coast. As well as being a professional writer she also runs Brittany Heritage Services (www.brittanyheritageservices.com), working with tourist organisations and heritage sites to... »
Short Story: FESTIVAL SAUMON
FESTIVAL SAUMON Paul had seen the poster advertising the festival a few days before. 4em Festival Saumon 11-14 Juillet 1998. A meaningful festival of salmon in a small inland town such as Pont Scorff seemed unlikely despite its river but he decided to go along. It was somewhere different to spend a Saturday afternoon of... »
George East Column – The Reluctant Traveller!
As promised in the last edition of BWM, here is our first contribution by a travel writer who appears to be on the way to becoming a permanent writer in residence in Brittany. For his first observation on the arts, crafts and trials of writing about foreign parts, George East discusses... »
Nicci Fletcher Column – No Plan survives first contact with an aspiring writer!
No Plan survives first contact with an aspiring writer. (part 1) It was my birthday last week. Pause for appropriate exchange of pleasantries. For me, like many others, this is usually a time for contemplation about the success and failures of the past year. Fortunately I’ve got several years to go... »
The George East Column arrives at Brittany Writers Magazine!
If anyone should know his onions about France and the French, it’s George East. The former nightclub bouncer, private detective, radio DJ, publican, gravedigger and pickled onion manufacturer has been writing about and messing around in France for more than thirty years. As he cheerfully concedes, he still can’t speak the language properly and is... »
Reporters & Columnists Wanted NOW!
Do you have what it takes to become a reporter for Brittany Writers Magazine? Can you write regular 1000 word articles and news items for your department in Brittany? Our regular readers have asked for more localised pieces. They want information about towns, people, businesses and areas of interest in Brittany. At BWM we are... »
Unsung Heroes
“Are those French?” the builder asked, spitting out the word French as if it left a bad taste on his lips. He seemed a likeable chap: mid-thirties, tall, outdoors type; popular, I guessed, with the ladies. Leaning forward, he squinted at the four old medals framed behind glass on my dining room wall alongside... »
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