Guildford Writers continued to achieve successes during 2009 by following a policy of sending off their work to competitions and other outlets, and some writers are now branching out into talks and workshops.

April 2010

• Anjali Mittal will be at two further events in May. On Saturday, 8th May, she will be at Waterstones, Guildford High Street, promoting her two children's books The Convent Rules and Mystery of the Art Teacher.

• On 24th May, Anjali has been invited by Bushy-Hill school, Merrow to talk to 250 children. She will read extracts from her books and involve the children in activities, including a rhyming competition which was a great success at Guildford High School.

March 2010

• Anjali Mittal had a wonderful opportunity to promote her children's book, The Convent Rules at the Guildford High School for World Book Day in March, when she gave a talk to year groups 3 - 6 (200 girls in total). The pupils gave her an enthusiastic reception and were eager to buy the book.

February 2010

• During February, Irene Black, Jacquelynn Luben and Jennifer Margrave gave presentations of their work to the two reading circles at Bramley Libaray.

• A feature on Irene Black's travels to India and her books, set in India, has been published in the March edition of Writers' News - out in February.

• Jacquelynn Luben's letter to Writers' News was the star letter in the March edition of Writers' News - out in February, winning her a copy of Writer's Market, 2010.

December 2009

• Mark Arnold has won the NAWG Open Short Story Competition 2009.

• An article by Jacquelynn Luben on her novel, Tainted Tree has been published in the December edition of Family Tree Magazine .

• A feature on Jacquelynn Luben's novel, Tainted Tree, and her other writing, has been published in the January edition of Writers' News - out in December.

November 2009

• Jennifer Margrave will be signing copies of her books with her pen-name, Jay Margrave, at Dorking Waterstone's on 5th December.

• Katherine Clements's short story Amila and Me will be published in a forthcoming edition of Mslexia.

• Irene Black and Jacquelynn Luben were at at Dorking Waterstone's on 22nd November to sign copies of their books.

October 2009

• Anjali Mittal was at Guildford Waterstone's on 17th October signing and reading from her children's book, The Convent Rules.

• Irene Black, Jacquelynn Luben and Jennifer Margrave gave a talk about their writing at Bookham Library and also conducted two workshops, one for the Guildford Book Festival and one for Dorking Arts Alive Festival, on the five senses.

July 2009

• Anjali Mittal new children's book, The Convent Rules, published by Authorhouse and launched in Clandon.

• Irene Black and Jacquelynn Luben went to Germany for the Freiburg/Guildford Twinning celebrations, and gave readings of their books, respectively, Darshan at the Town Square, Freiburg and Tainted Tree, at the Schwanhauser Bookshop.

• Jay Margrave went to the American Historical Novel Society’s Conference in Chicago in June and then on to Boston to give a presentation to a readers’ group who had chosen The Gawain Quest as one of their books to read. They liked it so much they wanted to ‘meet the author’.

April 2009

• Irene Black and Jacquelynn Luben were invited to give readings of their books, respectively, Darshan and Tainted Tree, at the Freiburg/Guildford Twinning celebrations in summer 2009.

March 2009

• Lichfield & District Short Story competition, two of Jacquelynn Luben's stories - shortlisted

February 2009

• Jay Margrave's book, Luther's Ambassadors, was been selected and reviewed as one of the Editors' Choices for the February 2009 issue of the Historical Novels Review.

January 2009

• Irene Black has now sold four pieces of writing - a short story and three articles about India - to the American e-zine 4IW, which focuses on writing for Indian women.

• The pieces are:
• 'Flight' 11/10/2008
• 'Curioser and Curioser' 05/12/08
• 'The Golden Temples of Badami' Part 1 31/01/09
• 'The Golden Temples of Badami' Part 2 (due out) 06/02/2009

• You can read all the pieces at the 4IW Website home [www.4indianwoman.com/home.html]

• For back copies click on the appropriate month under 'archive'.