Wforw.org.uk
Title
Word for word, writers' group
Description
Word for Word was originally a one-off writing course led by prize winning author and lecturer Linda Leatherbarrow but at the end of her tenure the members decided to carry on with what she had started. There have been three other tutors since Linda and now the group employs specialist tutors for workshops. The group have so far published three anthologies: Scribes and Passions; Into the Empty Space and Life, Death, Sex and Chocolate (published 2002).
'The contents of this anthology suggest the existence of a writers' workshop of considerable perspicacity, in which individual style is not rendered down; where reading aloud to the group does not inhibit; where public inspection fails to inspire good behaviour. Where, in fact the members get an energy going which would not otherwise transpire, and produce an anthology of value which otherwise would not exist at all”
Romesh Gunesekera described Into the Empty Space as a 'a true voyage of discovery' and Cheryl Moscowitz, one of the group's tutors, commented: 'What I am humbled by is the quality and the sheer power of what gets produced - not just occasionally, but on a weekly basis - by this group of talented individuals'
