Earnley Concourse Officially Closed

Well, there was no last minute reprise and the Earnley Concourse officially closed its doors on 19th December. There is a news story about it here and if you sign up to the Chichester Observer (it doesn’t cost anything), you can leave a comment on the story.

A happy 2012 to you all, even if it is a Southern Writers’ free year. Keep coming back here for updates.

Southern Writers' Conference 2012

Due to the closure of Earnley Concourse and the difficulties in finding a suitable venue, we have reached the sad conclusion that it will not be possible to hold a Southern Writers’ Conference in 2012. The committee has started to research the possibilities in terms of dates and locations for 2013. We will continue to keep you in touch with events through this website and email. Additionally we may be contacting those on our mailing list for opinions on how we would like to see the conference going forward.

Earnley Concourse and SWC

Many of you will have heard the sad news that our hosts for the past 29 years will be closing down. We don’t have any details I’m afraid, only that they will not be accepting bookings for 2012. Obviously that has put the committee into an unenviable position. We are seeking out new premises at the moment, but given the uncertainty of location and therefore dates, we can’t book any speakers. This means that it is becoming impractical to be thinking of a date in June, setting aside the fact that many places are already booked for that month. Keep coming here for more news and dates as and when we know more. But, assume that the Southern Writers will be later in the year.

More information about the situation at Earnley can be seen
here and there is a space to enter your own comments on this story.

New Photos

I’ve refreshed the photo album with a collection take from this year. I don’t know what kind of weather everyone else had over that weekend, but over in ‘God’s Pocket’, the sun shines for most of the summer.

Looking forward to next year

Well, that’s it for 2011 and what a fantastic weekend it turned out to be. Everyone appeared to be enjoying themselves and no wonder given the fantastically high standard of speakers.

But, keep coming back here as there’s going to be frequent updates. Photos will be going up in the next couple of days and then a downloadable set of leaflets for next year will follow.