Drinks, nibbles, news and good conversation on:

Jenny Rowe has a short story The Yew’s Embrace accepted for publication, following success in the US Weird Christmas competition.

Discussion on casting actors for your stage, audio, film etc script – the relationship between writer, director, producer and actor – the perennial paid work question, how the number of actors matter.

News of the Raindance producers’ course.

BBC Radio Repertory, getting your work in front of a producer.

Self-publishing, marketing and promoting your work.

Writer mentoring and teaching.

The lack of a brochure or app for the upcoming Brighton Fringe Festival.

Mark Burgess’ playwriting course.

The importance of networking for everyone who works in drama and the concept that it’s not what you know, it’s not who you know – it’s who knows you that matters.

A reading of Thomas’s short story The Haunted Mansion.

Next meeting in February – no January meeting.