{"id":5631,"date":"2025-09-23T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:25:37","slug":"join-our-literary-dinner-friday-21st-november-7pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/stourbridge\/2025\/09\/23\/join-our-literary-dinner-friday-21st-november-7pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Our Literary Dinner Friday, 21st November 7pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our annual Literary Dinner is a wonderful fundraising event; we do hope you will join us on November 21st at Hagley Golf & Country Club.<\/p>\n

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Literary Dinner 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Friday, 21st November<\/p>\n

7 for 7.30pm<\/p>\n

Hagley Golf Club,<\/p>\n

Wassell Grove Lane, \u00a0DY9 9JW<\/p>\n

\u00a348 per head<\/p>\n

We are pleased to welcome as our guests the following three local speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Jo Callaghan<\/td>\nWhen Jo\u2019s d\u00e9but novel, In The Blink of an Eye, <\/em>was featured on BBC2\u2019s programme Between the Covers, Robert Rinder said he had read it in one sitting so gripping had he found it.\u00a0 Jo works as a senior strategist researching the future impact of AI and geonomics on the workforce and she has drawn on this background in her writing, imagining the future use of AI by the police.<\/p>\n

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Thomas JR Dearn<\/td>\nTom\u2019s series of novels under the umbrella Once Upon A Time In The Black Country, <\/em>takes us into the dark, violent world of the 1950\u2019s gangster and introduces us to Harry Scriven, a man who finds himself embroiled in this world despite his innate moral compass and sense of justice.\u00a0 Tom is an author and musician who has a strong interest in the history of this period and who knows the Black Country well with family and work embedded there for generations<\/p>\n

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Amy Rose<\/td>\nAfter a failed marriage which undermined her sense of self-worth, Amy found herself trying to rebuild her life and that of her two children. Searching for hope, she began a new relationship with someone who seemed to promise a very different future.\u00a0 But as that relationship developed, Amy found herself trapped in a coercive and restrictive environment with no obvious way out.\u00a0 In her book, Candles for the Broken Path, <\/em>Amy talks of that time and reminds us that courage and self-love can light even the darkest path.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To book your place, deadline 31st<\/sup> October<\/strong> 2025:<\/p>\n

Either<\/u><\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0Post menu choices and cheque, <\/strong>made out to SI Stourbridge & District, to\u00a0 Jo Green, 55 Cheviot Way, Halesowen, B63 1HD<\/p>\n

Or<\/u><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Email menu choices<\/strong> to Jo at the SI address below and<\/u><\/strong> send payment by Direct Bank Transfer<\/strong> to Barclays Bank, Soroptimist International, Stourbridge & District, Account number 40324051, Sort code 20-27-17.\u00a0\u00a0 Please use reference LD<\/strong> with your surname<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have any queries please send them to si_stourbridge@msn.com or contact 07884 015671<\/p>\n

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Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warmed bread roll with butter (GF available)<\/p>\n

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Homemade smooth chicken liver pat\u00e9, fruit chutney, toasted wholegrain croutes (GF available)<\/p>\n

Or<\/em><\/p>\n

Chickpea falafel, harissa yoghurt, crispy carrot, pomegranate (VE)<\/p>\n

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Crispy pork belly, Lyonnaise potatoes, caramelised apples and cider sauce (GF)<\/p>\n

Or<\/em><\/p>\n

Baked haddock, basil and rocket pesto, Lyonnaise potatoes, samphire and parsley cream (GF)<\/p>\n

Or<\/p>\n

Wild mushroom and chestnut pithivier, creamed spinach, Lyonnaise potatoes, thyme and red wine jus (VE)<\/p>\n

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all with seasonal vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chocolate brownie, caramel sauce (VE) with honeycomb ice-cream (V)<\/p>\n

or<\/em><\/p>\n

Fresh Fruit Salad (VE) with pouring cream (V)<\/p>\n

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both with tea\/coffee and mints<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Club:\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ___________________________________________________<\/p>\n

Contact name:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 _______________________________Phone:______________<\/p>\n

Contact email (for queries\/e-tickets): _____________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Guest\u2019s name<\/u><\/strong><\/td>\nStarter<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Pat\u00e9\/Falafel<\/td>\n

Main<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Pork\/Haddock\/Pithivier<\/p>\n

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Dessert<\/u><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Brownie\/FFS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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