A Brief History of Sutton Writers
Sutton Writers was formerly established in 1986, with the romantic novelist Kate Alexander (real name Tilly Armstrong) as its President – an honorary position most recently, and last, held by the local historical biographer and novelist Alison Weir.
In the 1990s, Sutton Writers regularly ran a national writing competition and established links with the Sutton Amateur Dramatic Club, whose members have often performed in plays written by members.
We have always been very active in the local community of Sutton and surrounds, have held local and national writing competitions and latterly published work by members in two anthologies, Kaleidoscope (2009) and World War I Centenary Writings (2014) as well as a selection of privately published pamphlets from our poetry group.
In 2018, our involvement in the local archive’s Past on Glass project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, culminated in the production of the book Writing on Glass. Community driven projects with the Arts Network Sutton, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and St Mary’s Chrurch, Beddington, resulted in the books House of Stories and Without Boundaries (both 2022) and The Church in the Park (2023).