Welcome to Mary V. Williams'  Inky Digits, the website hosting the Drayton Writers' Group.

Hello! 

We're very glad you found us and we hope you'll find items on this site to interest and amuse you.  We meet once a month 11- 1pm Thursday at Raven House, and we're always open to new members.  Our next meeting is May 8th.  

Phone Mary on 01630 657055 for details, or ask in the library.

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We are putting together an anthology of work about Market Drayton and our corner of Shropshire. Poems, stories, songs and pieces about local people, events and legends - we welcome them all, and though we can't promise to publish everything that comes our way, we will endeavour to do our best. There will be some prizes for the best pieces received.

Submissions:

We prefer email submissions as word.doc attachments. Poems should be less than forty lines long, stories under 2,000 words, other pieces around 1,500 words or check with me first.  Pages should be numbered and your name should be on the header. If in doubt query with me first. Please put 'Drayton.doc' in the subject box and don't forget to add your name! We will look at hard copy but reluctantly, if it means a huge amount of typing up for us.  Fair enough?

This is us at our first ever Open Mike event.

Drayton Writers'Group: Visit our members' pages by clicking the Writers' Group button on the left.  We're a group of writers (and friends) from Market Drayton, Shropshire, who formed five years ago to share our work, as well as scurrilous gossip and information about the publishing world. I lied about the gossip. A bit anyway.

We're a lively group and we're beginning to look at ways of working with other groups to make ourselves more widely known. We have begun to put onto this site some of the work of group members. All work is copyright. Group members are Catherine W., Cathy, Catherine C., Mirka, Lynn, John, Sandie, Andrew, Allen, Dawn. Julie and me - Mary!

We can also offer the following services:

• Novel surgery: One-to-one supervision and help with planning and writing a novel.  £10.00 per hour

• First three chapters and synopsis: Editing, proof-reading and appraisal. £30.00

• Memoir writing: Negotiated

• Poetry appraisal: We can help you polish your work and suggest how you can get your work published. The poets in the group have all been published in poetry journals and anthologies.

Very affordable rates to local people. Give us a call! We're also happy to come and read our work at open mike events and take part in other group events.

If you have any enquiries or would like further information on any of my publications please feel free to Contact Me