What we do

Work-in-Progress Workshops: this is your chance to receive feedback on your work. Work is circulated in advance, and we focus on one person's work each week. 3-4.30pm Thursdays in 8-week blocks. Sign up here.

Shut Up And Write meets every Wednesday morning at Cornerstone Arts Centre and every Thursday morning on Zoom, both 10am-12.30pm. We write in company with a coffee break in the middle around 11am. You can just turn up on a Wednesday, or get in touch for Thursday's Zoom link.

Pub Social on Zoom and in person. 7.30-9pm on occasional Mondays and Thursdays. Check the calendar for dates.

Writing Competitions and Anthologies are listed on our wordpress site, where you can also read stories by members of the group and previous competition winners.

What else?

Book launch parties
In September 2019 we launched First Contact at Didcot Library (you can buy it here). Check out photos from the event here.

Back in December 2018 we launched our first anthology of short stories, The Most Normal Town in England, and covered the wall at Cornerstone Arts Centre in quotes from the works included. You can see the photos here, and buy a copy of the anthology here.

Writing on the Wall
In February 2018 we took over the wall in the Study at Cornerstone, and wrote up quotes from our favourite books. See photos from the event here. We revised our wall-art for the launch of The Most Normal Town in England in December 2018, you can see it here.

Inspired by...
Didcot Writers was invited to take part in a gallery exhibition at Cornerstone Arts Centre. We provided print-outs of twenty prose and poetry works inspired by the theme of 'water' and five images to accompany the work in the gallery space. This project was exhibited during March 2018. You can read six of the works exhibited here.

Workshops
Until March 2020 we ran regular in-person meetings, you can read notes from these workshops and look up our tutors here.

Got another idea?

If you have a project or event idea and want to work with us, find out how you can get involved.