Background information to how RBW were formed:

 

The founders of RBW met on a Keele University Creative Writing course in Sept 2004. 

 

In April 2005 Rising Brook Writers group was formed as an association and found a home at Rising Brook Branch Library.

 

In 2006 the first anthology was published and a touring community workshops programme opened in May of that year thanks to funding from Age Concern and SBC Community Fund.

 

In 2006 the first website drew breath on the social networking site MySpace: www.myspace.com/risingbrookwriters

 

 

Our long term direction and goals:

 

In Autumn 2006 RBW applied to the Charity Commission for charitable status as a Charitable Trust.

 

In 2007 RBW published another anthology and took the community workshops programme up to the next level by extending the service towards publication of workshop driven material on our website and in the publication of a second non-fiction themed anthologies.  Stafford Remembers is to be released in Spring 2008.

 

2007 saw the launch of RBW ON-LINE a weekly e-bulletin service for those unable to travel to the library workshop.

 

2008 - Extensive programme of publications and events

 

 

2008  will feature our DRAMA writers and POETS - as well as production of a major non-fiction community publication: Stafford Remembers

 

2008 APRIL Stafford Remembers launches to widespread media interest - the significance of the project which recorded oral history is marked.  The Staffordshire Archive and William Salt Library hold copies of the book and a set of the three hours of recordings on  3 CDs. (Cosmic Studios Trentham are gratefully acknowledged for their support on this project)

 

2008 RBW will provide a prelude to Stafford's Summer Arts Festival with a DRAMA DAY on 21st June at the MET Theatre - in conjuction with professionals from Etruria Cafe Theatre.

FREE of CHARGE EVENT - spaces limited please register interest early to reserve a place. 

 

2008 - will launch Staffordshire Introspective a collection of works from 15 Staffordshire Poets supported by Stafford District Arts Council.  LIVE Poetry Event 21st June Met Theatre.

 

2008 March NEW LIVE poetry reading Band site opens: Some poems are set to music  . . .

www.myspace.com/risingbrookwriterslive

 

Click on icon below to hear example

 

 

To see more of what we do and don't do please visit our People page. 

  

 

RBW ALSO OPERATE A COMMUNITY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME TO VISIT SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANISATIONS     WITH OUR TOURING WORKSHOP TEAM TO SHARE THE JOYS OF CREATIVE WRITING WITH OTHERS.   SPEAKERS ALSO AVAILABLE   Below is one of our library workshops in action. To see more of what we do please click on the Gallery button

 

 

 

 

 

 

CALLING ALL LOCAL BUSINESSES & ORGANISATIONS . . . .

 

PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITIES : 

 

Do you want to get involved with supporting the ARTS in a local way but don't know how?

 

Why not give us a call?

 

Sponsorship of a senior citizens' community arts project might be just what you have been looking out for to highlight your 'community spirit'.

 

Can you imagine your logo splashed all over our outside events as an 'official sponsor' or tucked away centre stage on the cover of our widely publicised publications?

 

How about being photographed attending one of our book launches? 

 

How good would that feel?

 

Getting the idea? - Hey why not pull out all the stops and become Rising Brook Writers 'Patron of the Arts'?