Bob Berry, our Chairman. Principal forte is writing poetry; self published a booklet 'The Humming Glass' and a book of selected poems, 'Flushed Cheeks and Dirty Aprons', available from a local bookshop. Likes the Beat Poets, Sylvia Plath and Arthur Rimbaud. Claims to be Midhurst's biggest Bob Dylan fan!


Andrew Guyatt: Retired scientist studied lung function and smoking in London, Florida, Edinburgh and Midhurst; Books include "The Day the Sky Opened", Scripture Union 2006, (an imaginative view of the story of  Noah) and "Cowdray and Easebourne", Middleton Press 2007 with Vic Mitchell.


Wendy Lewis: Varied career from Post Office clerk and pub landlady to dog breeding, farming and freelance journalist. Wrote first book 'The Reluctant Farmer' (now on Amazon as 'Town & Country') when aged 53 after joining Midhurst Writers Group. Now have 10 books published in various formats.

David Risley: another member writing good, imaginative short stories and novels which we are hoping to see in print one day. A local member of a popular banjo band, though we have to hear his playing at any of our meetings. Maybe one future Christmas we might persuade him?

John A Connor: a keen reader of many genres from an early age but only began to write when he retired.  Several collections of short stories all available on Amazon Kindle: ‘Short Circuits’, ‘Fifty Percent of Infinity’, ‘Seventeen Times as High as the Moon’, ‘Whines & Spirits’ and ‘Puck’s Hassle’.


Michael Challen: no meeting would be complete without hearing one of Mike’s memorable poems, but he also writes short stories from evocative to amusing. We are still trying to encourage him to have them published!




NOTE: THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OF SOME MEMBERS AT THE TIME OF COMPILING THIS WEBSITE, AND NOT NECESSARILY  THEREAFTER.



























Alec Fry: former West End book editor in the sixties, then technical journalist. Three non-fiction books published, the first in 1965, and another three more recently for the Kindle reader - one of which, "FINCA", reached  No 1 in its Amazon category. More of an occasional visitor to the Group these days.

Sally Floyd: Sally is a psychotherapist who enjoys writing to influence emotional development and has an interest in researching a subject or topic and writing about it. She has yet to develop a preferred literary style and joined Midhurst Writers Group to learn from the other members - which she did to the point of winning our 2018 Short Story Competition!

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