We're a creative writing group based in Didsbury, Manchester. We've been going for thirty years and we're still going strong - new people, good work and some publishing successes.
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Nicola Batty
We don't see much of her now, but Nicola is still one of the most talented writers we've met.
Philip Caveney
Maybe not a founder member of the South Manchester Writer's Workshop, but certainly one of its oldest surviving members, he's been sitting in the corner, nodding, for something like 25 years now. Having put some time in, he feels that he's at least earned the right to an extra chocolate biscuit. And of course there is the fact that he has a book or three on the shelves!
Ruth Estevez
The new work is a world away from her earlier publication.
Simon Miller
Simon Miller was trapped in footnotes and bureaucracy until he discovered Harry Kaplan and the South Manchester Writers’ Workshop, and now there’s a pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel and a quartet of thrillers on the go. The Wrong Domino is the first of them, and it’s close to done.
Mark Mitchell
Intense might be the word.
Gary Parkinson
Novels, scripts... Read all about it in his own words.
Keith Saunders
Along with the most recent photograph he's managed to find...
Nigel Spencer
A couple of chapters
John Waterhouse
A few words from one of our playwrights
Mark Whitaker
I write children's books and plan to be the next huge publishing sensation. I also plan to climb Everest with no boots and invent a new kind of cheese that tastes of Smarties.
Ed Wilson
Half a dozen unpublished novels, a few letters to the paper, two computer manuals, some very fine rejection letters...
