Our June 2025 Newsletter provides details of future events including a members’ reading evening on Wednesday 11 June and our AGM on Wednesday 2 July, after which Mark Paffard will speak on ‘Conservative Belief and the Imagination in Kipling’s Fiction’. Mark is the author of Kipling’s Indian Fiction and is a regular contributor to the Kipling Journal. You can also find a report and some photographs of the Alliance of Literary Societies AGM, which we hosted in May this year, and the announcement of the prize winners in this year’s writing competition, as well as the usual range of reports and articles.