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A Detailed History of Anderida Writers From the Year 2014
2014
2014 started with a bang, with more publishing successes. Francis Wait announced the publication an e-version of his book for children and teenagers called ‘The Magical Pendant of Perdania’ under the pseudonym Francis Jaycee and then surprised us all by producing an erotic crime thriller ‘Without their Consent’ which was so sexually explicit that it was banned by Amazon!! But is still available on smashwords.com which delivers manuscripts to various websites such as Sony, Kobo and Flipkart. Dorit Oliver Wolff brought out a booklet entitled ‘Behind The smile – from Yellow Star to Pop star’ containing extracts from her public speaking. Dorit, who appeared on television on BBC South East on Monday January 27th, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, gave a talk the same evening in aid of St. Wilfred’s Hospice at the Kings Centre, Eastbourne. It attracted a big audience and raised approximately £1,000 for the hospice.
Laura Crean reached the semi-finals of the International Author of the Year Contest, with her children’s book ‘The Realm of the Purple Dragon,’ A fantasy adventure book is available on Amazon and Lulu Press.
Liz Wright has contributed a number of well illustrated feature items, ranging from The Long man of Wilmington and Michelham Priory water mill to Sussex guns and hop pickers to the website of B-C-ing-U.com, a travel and leisure e-magazine.
In March the social event of a Spring Dinner at Michelangelo Restaurant in South Street was well supported. At that month’s main meeting Kate Tym, who was a commissioning editor for Random House publishers talked about the publishing process from manuscript to finished book.
Maria Louka and Francis Wait jointly won the Anderida Accolade for outstanding work, while presentations were also made to retiring Vice Chairman Jenny Jewiss and Secretary Liz Baker at the Anderida Writers AGM.
Chairman Tony Flood later received a Resident of the Year award at the Eastbourne Achievers Accolades, following in the footsteps of Dorit Oliver Wolff. This was in recognition of his work with Anderida, being joint leader, with his wife Heather, of the Creative Writing Group held at Alice Croft House, his help at Princes Trust Workshops and his forthcoming celebrity talks at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre and Underground Theatre.
The Anderida AGM at Alice Croft House on Tuesday April 8th, 2014 saw further changes made to the Constitution.
It was decided that hire fees from the club library should remain at 25p with the exception of those books contributed by Anderida’s published authors. The hire fee for these will be £1, which should go to the author in question. Proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by Tony Flood.
A proposal by Tony Flood, seconded by Francis Wait, was to change the wording in the Constitution of Section 6 – MANAGEMENT was passed without any votes against. This was as follows:
SECTION 6 - MANAGEMENT
The Officers and Committee shall be elected at each Annual General Meeting.
The Committee shall consist of: Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and up to six other members, all of whom can hold additional positions.
The Committee shall have the power to co-opt not more than two members with full voting rights. Four members of the Committee shall form a quorum.
If there is a tied vote, the Chairman shall have the casting vote.
Officers elected were:
Chairman – Tony Flood.
(proposed by Michael Fleming, seconded by David Wells)
Vice Chairman – Michael Fleming.
(proposed by Tony Flood, seconded by David Wells)
Secretary – Maria Louka.
(proposed by Michael Fleming, seconded by Tony Flood)
Treasurer – Roger Hardman.
(proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by David Wells)
Membership Secretary – Liz Wright.
(proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by David Wells)
Competitions Secretary – Mike Fleming.
(proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by David Wells)
Assistant Competition Secretary – David Wells.
(proposed by Tony Flood, seconded by Francis Wait)
Liaison Officer – David Wells.
(proposed by Heather Flood, seconded by Francis Wait)
Joint Newsletter Editors – Tony Flood and Maria Louka.
(proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by David Wells)
Website Contents Editor – Liz Wright
(proposed by Tony Flood, seconded by Maria Louka)
Catering Officer – Heather Flood.
(proposed by Francis Wait, seconded by David Wells)
Librarian – Francis Wait.
(proposed by Tony Flood, seconded by David Wells)
Publicity and Marketing Officer – Tony Flood.
(proposed by Maria Louka, seconded by David Wells)
Maria Louka and Francis Wait jointly won the Anderida Accolade for outstanding work, while presentations were also made to retiring Vice Chairman Jenny Jewiss and Secretary Liz Baker.
After the AGM editor and author Jay Dixon gave a talk explaining about ‘points of view’ and ‘show not tell.’
Tony Flood took to the stage of the Royal Hippodrome Theatre to talk about the fascinating celebrities he had interviewed for his book ‘My Life With The Stars.’ His warm and amusing anecdotes were filmed for the Community Channel.
Laurie Wilkinson’s new book, a compact volume of his poems called ‘Poetic Views of Life’ was published by My Voice Publishing. It became available on Amazon as both a paperback and an e-version, with Laurie making a donation from all sales to Help 4 Heroes.
The Eastbourne Book Fest, which provided four days of events including workshops, readings and talks, ended at the Towner Art Gallery on Sunday 1st June, with an awards presentation to the winners of the writing competition themed ‘New and Different.’
MP Stephen Lloyd and the Mayor, Cllr Janet Coles, presented the prizes, with Anderida’s Heather Flood winning the 65+ poetry section and other Anderida members Roger Hardman, Robin Kempe, Hazel Elick and Tony Flood coming second or third. Roger actually gained two placings!
The winners and those short-listed will have their entries published by My Voice Publishing. Others short listed included Jill Rutherford, Maria Louka, Jeff Fleming and Lena Bowling.
The competition was organised by Book Fest Director Brigitte Sumner.
The contents of ‘The History of Anderida Writers’ contain a brief summary of notable events between 1990 – summer 2014.
Compiled from assorted newsletters, press cuttings, correspondence and various records associated with Anderida Writers, Eastbourne, by Membership Secretary and Website Contents Editor Elizabeth Wright, 2014
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