Upcoming Events

    • 10 Dec 2024
    • 10:00 - 11:30
    • Pages & Sips, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève
    • 3
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    Snippets

    Monthly in-person writing sessions



    Get your writing juices flowing! 

    Creative, themed writing sessions to inspire you for your current project or for a new one, while connecting with local creative writers. We will produce 3-4 snippets of writing from prompts to put our creative minds to work. We will share our creations, either by describing them or reading them out. 

     

    When? The second Tuesday of each month; 10-11.30

    Where? Pages and Sips in the old town, Grand-Rue 37, 1204 Genève

    FOR GWG MEMBERS ONLY!

    Cost: 10 chf, and support our host Pages & Sips by purchasing something (coffee, tea, croissant...)

    Who is the leader? 

    Carol Waites has been a professional writing trainer and coach for 25 years, more recently immersing herself in creative writing. She loves sharing ideas and seeing others’ creative talents unfold. She also loves networking with other like-minded people from different backgrounds. She is now writing her memoir of her time at the United Nations.




    • 12 Dec 2024
    • 18:30 - 21:30
    • Upstairs at The Library in English, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva
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    THE GWG PRESENTS:

    OPEN-MIC NIGHT

    WITH HOLIDAY APERO

    WHEN: Thursday 12 December 2024

    TIME: 18H30 - 21:30H

    WHERE: The Library in English Upstairs, 3 rue de Monthoux, 1201 Geneva


    Join us for our Open-Mic end-of the year event at the Library in English (Upstairs)! We are looking forward to seeing GWG members, old and new!


    Spots for GWG Members who would like to read are on a first come, first served basis.  Email us if you would like to be added to the list at genevawriters@gmail.com. We will have a "wait list" once spots are full!


    The evening is free to attend, but please register by clicking on the link on the left so that we know how many people are coming. Thanks.


    • 18 Jan 2025
    • 10:30 - 16:30
    • Maison des Associations rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneve.
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    The GWG Presents:

    Jonathan Edwards

    “So this is how we love”: Poems about people


    For poets of all abilities, writing about someone important – a family member, friend, love interest – can be a royal road to generating a poem of real emotional impact. During this workshop, we’ll look at a range of highly effective structures for framing our feelings about people. From work to hobbies to anecdotes to important places, there are so many ways into writing about people, and the workshop will brim with as many ideas as it can fit. By the end, you should have something which says something important about someone important, which does the magic poems can, of making someone feel.

    Where: Maison Internationale des Associations, rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneva. 

    Time: 10:30-16:30

    10:30 - 13:00 Workshop | 14:00 - 16:30 Critiquing session




    Jonathan Edwards’s first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014), received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award. It was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His second collection, Gen (Seren, 2018), also received the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award, and in 2019 his poem about Newport Bridge was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He received the Troubadour Poetry Prize in 2022. He has been a judge for the National Poetry Competition and the Wales Book of the Year and a Literature Wales mentor of emerging writers, and has led courses and workshops for the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School and the Poetry Society. He lives in Crosskeys, South Wales.


    • 11 Feb 2025
    • 18:00 - 19:30
    • Maison des Associations rue des Savoises 15, 1205 Geneve.
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    The GWG Presents:

    S. M. Radjy

    Intro to Instagram for writers: Should you start your own account, and tips and tricks to connect to the bookstagram community

    Online workshop


    In today's day and age, writing and publishing is only the tip of the ice berg. As an author, you have to do your own marketing, too. Social media, and Instagram, is one of the tools at your disposal. Is it one you're interested in using? Would it be a good match for you as an author? This interactive workshop will give you some context to answer that question, and share good practices on what to do if you do decide to set up an author Instagram account. Shahnaz will share lessons learned and insights from her experience as well as example accounts and posts to make your time together as hands on and as practical as possible. Without pretending to have all the answers, her goal is to make it a little easier - and more fun - for you to market yourself as an author, and find your virtual community, by using Instagram.

    Where: Online via Zoom. 

    Time: 18:00-19:30





    S. M. Radjy is a Bolivian-Iranian-Swiss mutt whose love of stories comes from her mother putting her to sleep with Greek and Roman myths, and her brother introducing her to fantasy – and Dungeons & Dragons. She is based in Lisbon, Portugal, with her husband and two daughters. However, her heart will always be on her old, off-grid farm in rural Portugal that will one day be a gorgeous ecotourism project, Casa Beatrix. When not writing, you can most likely find Shahnaz huffing up and down Lisbon's hills (often pushing or holding back a stroller), lost in a book, in the saddle, or mushroom hunting (except when paid work calls, of course). You can connect with her on Instagram @smradjyauthor or Twitter/X @sradjy.


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