The newsletter reverted back to its original A4 size. The Anderida Accolade, awarded in recognition of the effort and work members put into their writing, was presented to Harry Bankhead at the March AGM. Full Membership now stood at 40 and finances at £300.
Due to the success of press coverage, a new post was created, and Liz Wright became Anderida’s Press Officer. An extra supplement was added to the standard monthly newsletter giving members details of possible markets and writing competitions.

Members were treated to informative talks by author Ann Botha, Editor Pauline Bentley and Trevor Jones, who spoke about writing for radio, Steve Benz gave an insight into small press publishing and Tamara Lee helped members to write a synopsis that would intrigue a publisher. Anderida’s star member, Tamara won the Sherlock Holmes Short Story Competition, was interviewed on radio, written about in the Press and was engaged in a non-stop round of book signings.

Meetings at that time were being held at the Chaseley Heritage, Bolsover Road, (room rental £5). Robert Crouch, Anderida Chairman and Newsletter editor, wrote a regular column for ‘Writers’ Monthly’, and sold various articles to ‘Practical Gardening’, ‘Aspect’ and ‘Annabel.’ Margot Field had appeared on ‘Woman’s Hour,’ got into print with articles, short stories and a novel, plus scripts that had been accepted by Capital 1 Radio. Ella Harris had one poem published in ‘Good Housekeeping’ and performed a number of poetry readings in The Poetry Café in Covent Garden. Elizabeth Wright was building up an impressive number of publishing successes with ‘Downs Country,’ ‘This England,’ ‘All About Dogs,’ ‘Bird Keeper,’ ‘Dogs Today’ and ‘All About Cats’. New member Liz Gregory had worked in Fleet Street for 30 years; at 17 she wrote a play that was performed at Glyndebourne.
Roy Johnson won the 500 word competition with ‘Far Away Places.’ Entries were read out by local actresses Jo Sands and Judy Norris.

At the October meeting Tamara Lee held a workshop on ‘Writing a good synopsis’ and said the synopsis is as important as the novel. The November Newsletter had an eye-catching heading, ‘King Henry’s Balls.’ Chairman Robert Crouch brought along a tennis ball, and asked for suggestions on articles about this item. Imaginative thinking from some members resulted in a flow of ideas, ranging from ‘how are they made?’ to ‘why did someone send tennis balls to Henry V?’ The heading for the novel group meeting was equally intriguing, ‘Game, sex and Match.’ Harry Bankhead finally read the last pages of ‘The Delear Affair.’ Alan Crozier’s ‘Sexwolf,’ Tamara Lee’s ‘Quiet Desperation,’ and host Ann Botha’s ‘Tyger Bay’ brought the amusing apt comment from Chairman Robert Crouch, “The standard of writing was so good it was a shame to end play.”