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Scottish Association of Writers
Congratulations to AWC Life Member Marion Montgomery who has won the SAW Scholarship 2012. Marion has never previously won the scholarship and she has the added joy of taking home the Dorothy Dunbar Trophy for the first time, having been runner-up on four previous occasions.
Marion's only other major success at SAW was winning the drama competition in 1980, with a play set in Moscow. There was no trophy for drama at that time - Helensburgh donated one years later - so 2012 will be the first time she'll carry home any silverware.
The 2012 SAW Conference Weekend will be held at the Erskine Hotel on 9th to 11th March. Download the 2012 Schedule here to learn about the programme for the weekend.
Imprint Competition November 2011
We are delighted to announce that Club members, Frances Smith and Maggie Bolton, were two of the four runners up in Kilmarnock's Imprint Poetry Competition 2011. The competition was to create a 500 word Flash Fiction story based on the theme 'Five'. Frances's entry was entitled First Day, while Maggie's piece was called Cherry Stones.
Click here to read the winning entries.
4oth Anniversary Awards Dinner
Ayr Writers' Club celebrated its 40th Anniversary Awards' Dinner at the Parkstone Hotel in Prestwick. It was a wonderful night made extra special by the attendance of many former members who responded AWCs invitation in the local press and by letter. Fiona McFadzean, President gave thanks to members for her enjoyable year and handed the mantle over to new joint Presidents, Ann Burnett and Sheila Grant. A 'life membership' was awarded to Marion Montgomery to acknowledge her continuous contribution to the club over the years. The awards were presented by Founder Member, Dorrith Sim (pictured), Goody bags provided a free novel for each person, kindly donated by newbooks, magazine.
Trophy Winners pictured left to right : Carolyn O'Hara Runner up Novice Writer, 2nd Scottish Article ; Tracy Harvey, 1st Children's Fiction and 1st Best Novice Writer; Marion Montgomery 1st Poetry; Sheila Grant, Published Writer of the Year; Ann Burnett, 1st Non-Fiction, 1st Drama and Overall Competition Winner; Fiona McFadzean President; Dorothy Gallagher, 1st Novel Writing; Janice Johnston, 1st Scottish Article; Alison Craig, 1st Book Review.
Not Pictured: Maggie Bolton, 1st Woman's Short Story. For full runners up list Click Here
Dorrith Sim a founder member of AWC
presented the prizes at the 40th Awards' Dinner 2011
Ann Burnett is one of the judges in the A. Vogel/Your Healthy Living Short Story Competition. The competition is free to enter and the first prize is £500. See www.avogel.co.uk/story/enter.html for further details and an entry form.
Follow Ann Burnett's articles on
www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/ann31266
www.annburnett.co.uk
Marion Montgomery has two Youtube slots of herself reading her poems. This is to celebrate/publicise her book of poetry, Lyart, to be published by Red Squirrel Publishing shortly.
The Legacy
Michael Malone is reading his poem, Learning to Listen
Results from Kilmarnock's Imprint Competition November 2010
Three of our members at Ayr Writers' Club have had successful entries in Kilmarnock's Imprint Poetry Competition 2010. The theme for this year's competition was 'Ayrshire Life'. We are proud to announce that Alison Craig came 2nd in the competition with her poem, 'Huey Boy and Burnsy', Sheila Templeton was shortlisted with 2 of her poems 'Skimmins' and 'Questioning' and Tracy Harvey also had a poem shortlisted called, 'The Missus'. Only 10 poems made the shortlist.
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Congratulations to all. Well done!
Gallery
The Gallery is a collection of AWC events/workshops/SAW/prizegivings etc to log some of our achievements and successes over the years. It is not fully comprehensive but it is a start We'd love to receive photographs by email that can perhaps be included in the Gallery. Memories of AWC in years past would be great.
Please forward your photographs to