Although the Scribblers is no longer an active writers' forum, this website is maintained and coordinated by founder-member Frank Goodman, a prize-winning short-story writer before joining the Scribblers - Frank's recent stories are published in Tales of the Decongested, Volume One (Apis Books 2006) and at website Unmadeup.

Michael John Weller is an artist, writer and poet. Mike has been associated with the poetics of performance writing since meeting Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths in London in 1989. MJ's artist's books; Harriet Staunton, Space Opera, Beowulf Cartoon and three-part The Secret Blue Book began life at the Scribblers.

John Coventon is a drama teacher who introduced the possibilites of writing for the stage to the Scribblers in 1999. Frank Goodman and founder-Scribbler Leonard Emmerson, won local Churchill Theatre playwriting prizes and professional staging of their work. Len's work earned him a degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Dozens of aspiring writers and performers passed through the Scribblers reading-room at Beckenham's Studio between 1996-2000 when the group was coordinated by founder Sylvia Clare, and included Yasmin Kureishi. Among the younger grouping of early attendees, Kelly McKain has gone on to become a well-established writer of books for children and young adults.

The Scribblers website was designed by Frank Goodman in 2000, before the runaway popularity of social networking sites and off the peg blogosphere templates. Scribblin' spirits are arguably everywhere. Penned in the Margins is a real literary organisation wired to electronic possibilities of creativity, networking and branding. Openned and opeNned are similarly "generation txt" with an emphasis on innovations in performance poetics. Dan I Sherman is alter-ego of L S Dalphinis - veteran musician and inventor of urban acid synth, lyricist, poet, producer and You Tube movie-maker. John Robbins is Dublin-based cartoonist, critic, short-story writer, moderator of smallscrutinies online, and self-publisher of printed Downright Bockedy titles. David Caddy is a Dorset based poet, podcaster, critic and editor of the internationally renowned printed magazine Tears in the Fence for nighly a quarter of a century.

Other Scribblers links include seasoned artist and London-based blogger Natalie D'Arbeloff with her arts background in Paris, Paraguay, Brazil, New York and Italy. Foro de Escritores from Chile features a new generation of Latin American poets, and academic websites reaching out to wider reading publics are resourced from Birkbeck College and University at Buffalo, New York.

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Natalie d'Arbeloff has jointly won the Guardian's inaugural 2007 Mary Stott competition prize which includes editing The Guardian's womens pages - scheduled for one week in June 2008.

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