Renegade Writers Group has moved its meetings to the upstairs room of Bridge Street Ale House. If you are unable to manage stairs then sadly this venue is not suitable for you.
Renegade Writers has had a successful 2025, with weekly attendances around a dozen members (but we have around 20 members all told). To learn more about joining us click here.
To reassure everyone, the Renegade Writers Group is still here and still going from strength to strength. This year (2025) so far we’ve welcomed a few new members. So, if you are a writer seeking assistance with your work in progress, do consider us.
Renegade Writers has been functioning for a decade or more (my memory is skimpy, sorry), and we still meet weekly:
We meet every Wednesday, in the upstairs room in the Bridge Street Ale House, 31 Bridge Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2RY, from 7.00 p.m to 9.00 p.m. or so. There is no membership or entry fee — other than buying a drink from the bar.
We include all genres of prose writing (not poetry).
More information can be found here.
These books are available from members of Renegade Writers group. Check Amazon for other titles by these authors.
November 1940. The Battle of Britain has only just ended and the horror of the Blitz is reaching its height. Two deaths in rapid succession on the Sussex Downs brings Bunch Courtney and Chief Inspector Wright together once more. What could possibly link a fatal auto accident with the corpse in a derelict shepherd’s hut? The only clue the pair have is a handwritten list of the members of a supper club that meets at London’s Café de Paris. Two of those on that list are now dead and the race is on to solve the mystery before any more end up on the mortuary slab.
Abandoned as babies, twins Sadie and Thea have been brought up by Great-Aunt Jane. When Jane dies they inherit her house in Belvedere Crescent. The only home they have ever known, it is a place where time slips and slides, and what once might have seemed safe is revealed to be full of dark secrets and hidden dangers.
From the outside Beryl has everything, a happy marriage, a loving family and loyal friends. That is until her doctor tells her she only has 52 weeks left to live. Making a decision to treat her limited time as an adventure, she decides to free herself and enjoy as many new experiences as she can fit in.
Humanity is dying. To find a cure for the Blight that’s destroying them Mathew Pembrock, the naïve son of Lord Gruffydd, joins heretic priest, Father Stephen, on a perilous journey to the Forbidden Lands, turning his world up side down and drawing him into confrontation with an ancient and powerful enemy.
Dag gave everything during the war. A bomber pilot who pushed his nerves and courage to the limit and beyond. Even after losing his rank and ruining his reputation, he still returned. Finally, on D- Day he gave his life. Or did he?
For over 25 years The Alchemy Press has published fantasy, science fiction and horror in fiction and non-fiction, and a few poems along the way, from a wealth of wonderful writers such as Sarah Ash, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Steve Rasnic Tem, Storm Constantine, Stan Nichols, Nancy Kilpatrick, Stephen Jones, all encased in covers by the likes of Clive Barker, Daniele Serra, David Hardy, Steve Upham … and many more writers and artists.
1934 Depression-era Kentucky. Jo is a packhorse librarian delivering books to poverty-stricken people out in the mountains and valleys on her horse Ulysees. At the end of one valley, in a cabin beside Magic Mountain Creek, lives Alfred McAdam, a goat farmer supplying skins to the glove trade, and his dog Carson.
We’ve neglected this blog for quite some time. To reassure everyone, the Renegade Writers Group is still here and still going from strength to strength. This year (2025) so far we’ve welcomed a few new members. So, if you are a writer seeking assistance with your work in progress, do consider us.
Renegade Writers has been functioning for a decade or more (my memory is skimpy, sorry), and we still meet weekly:
We meet every Wednesday, in the back room in the Bridge Street Ale House, 31 Bridge Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 2RY, from 7.00 p.m to 9.00 p.m. or so. There is no membership or entry fee — other than buying a drink from the bar.
We include all genres of prose writing (not poetry).
More information can be found here.
Merry Christmas to our members and readers. Note that our next meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd January 2024 at 7.00 pm, in our usual friendly venue.
There hasn’t been much activity on these pages of late… Oh, let’s be honest, there hasn’t been any activity since before the dreaded Lockdown.
We are happy to say that Renegade Writers is still going and still meets regularly, every Wednesday evening. For venue details, check here: Renegade Venue
If you wish to contact us, use this form.
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Are you a writer?
Are you looking for a writers’ group, to help you improve, to give ideas, assist you to overcome writer’s block, to provide support?
Then we are just the right group for you. We – Renegade Writers – meet every Wednesday at 7.00 p.m. for a couple of hours of all things literary. Details on joining us can be found here.
We are a friendly group, keen to expand membership. Keen to help fellow writers improve and get published.
It’s Christmas — very soon at any rate. Renegade Writers is taking a break for the festive season and will next meet up on Wednesday 8th January 2020, at 7.00 pm. In the meantime, read some good books, write some good words, and be happy.
Jan Edwards writes:
In Winter Downs: Bunch Courtney Investigates #1 the village close to Bunch’s family home is never named. This was quite deliberate as I didn’t want to pin myself to firmly on a location that can be too easily recognised. In the throws of completing the first draft of In Her Defence: Bunch Courtney Investigates #2 I have realised that I need a more structured vision of the landscape. And so Wyncombe is born – literally the path leading up the hill from the valley. ‘Wynd’ being an old Sussex term for a path up a hill, and ‘Coombe’ meaning a hollow or valley in the Downs.
Read the full essay here.
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