Chairman: Barbara Stewart, Treasurer/Membership Secretary: Terry Rickson
Events Coordinator: Steve Pilley, Editor Wavelengths: Mike Boland

Founded in 1970 by Bill Barnes, the Poetry Workshop is a self-governing group within the Society of Civil and Public Service Writers.

Membership is open to anyone who works, or has worked, in the Public Service.

Annual subscription for members of the Society of Civil & Public Service Writers is £5.00

For those who are not members of the Society, the subscription is £6.00 for Associate members

Membership of the Poetry Workshop provides:

• Four lively magazines Wavelengths (issued free to PW members) each year
• The chance of publication in Waves (the annual collection of PW members' work)
• Access to the popular Postal Folio scheme
• Access to the new e folio scheme
• Eligibility for the Bill Barnes Poetry Competition (exclusively for PW members)
• Eligibility for the annual PW Weekend, usually held in the Midlands; but in 2012 it will be held in Launde Abbey, near Oakham, Lincs. 20th-22nd July, cost £156.50, a deposit of £20 will secure a place.

Anyone interested in joining the Poetry Workshop or attending the PW Weekend should contact Terry Rickson, 48 Marlborough Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3QA

Cheques should be made payable to: SCPSW Poetry Workshop A/C.