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Challenging Stereotypes – Jobs for the Girls and A Sporting Chance

Celebrating both International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month on Saturday, March 8th, with two panels of awesome women who’ve already smashed those glass ceilings. After each panel, there will be a market place so that girls can approach the panelists to ask those burning, in depth questions they’ll be…

January 2, 2025
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Medway Women’s History Month 2025 – Launch Event

The first of the month-long series of events is our official launch in Room 11, Rochester Adult Education Centre, Eastgate, on Saturday, 1st March 2025. We have inspiring speeches and a performance from the Brompton and Invicta Military Wives Choir, with a chance to meet the team behind Medway Women’s…

December 29, 2024
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March is Medway Women’s History Month

Saturdays in March 2025 are going to be busy, so block out your diaries now. We’re working in partnership with Medway Adult Education, Rochester, Salvation Army, Strood and the Net Community Hub to celebrate Medway Women’s History Month. Here’s our programme for the month: March 1st: Launch Event at Rochester…

December 16, 2024
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A Mini Murderous Medway

March 2025 is going to be busy, so brace yourselves! We’re holding a series of events to mark Women’s History Month, and one of them is a Murderous Medway Production. ‘Her Majesty The Queen Investigates’ author S J Bennett: In Conversation will take place at the Salvation Army Hall in…

December 14, 2024
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Well, hello there!

Long time, no see! That is going to change – much like our website – and we have already joined a new writing group, Mirago Authors, which will be meeting next at a Strood cafe in a florist shop, Sant & Davison. Saturday 16/11, all welcome from 3pm. As you…

October 24, 2024
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Medway, City of Culture 2025 – can you help the bid?

Medway’s 2025 UK City of Culture bid is seeking members for a new voluntary trustee group and working groups to guide the set-up of an independent culture trust to deliver Medway’s City of Culture ambition and to support the development of the bid throughout 2020 and 2021. The groups seek…

September 15, 2020
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Write Then Socialise October

The next WTS is on Saturday, October 26 from 10am-1pm in Rochester Library (ground floor). I’ll be in Miss Twinkleton’s from around 9.30am, if you’d like to join me for a coffee and chat there before heading across. See you then!

October 16, 2019
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Back to normal!

Farewell Murderous Medway, hello Write Then Socialise! Rochester Write Then Socialise is back this weekend, from 10am-1pm, downstairs at Rochester Library. I’ll be in Miss Twinkleton’s beforehand, if anyone wants to join me. Murderous Medway is over for another year – but it will return in 2020! We had a…

September 24, 2019
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Murderous Medway Panel 3 – Storybuilders

21st September 2019 Guy Fraser-Sampson, Vicky Newham and Linda Regan ponder whether their writing processes make them an architect, an archaeologist or an alchemist.

July 21, 2019
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Murderous Medway Panel 1 – Location, Location, Location

21st September 2019 Elly Griffiths, William Shaw and Lesley Thomson discuss the settings of their novels and how a place can become just as much a character as the heroes.

July 21, 2019
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July Write Then Socialise

July’s Write Then Socialise takes place next Saturday, 27th July. Apologies for the late notice, I’ve been away for what seems like months but was only three weeks! We’re at Rochester Library Cafe again from 10am-2pm, see you there!

July 21, 2019
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Murderous Medway Panel 5 – Lines of Duty

21st September 2019 Kent Police detective Lisa Cutts talks to former police intelligence analyst Elizabeth Haynes and former WPC Gina Kirkham about how much freedom they can allow artistic licence to override procedures when crafting their novels.

July 6, 2019