RCS Anderson

Dane Love is a man with a passion, a passion for old maps and the stories behind some of their markings and for sharing those… Read More »Dane Love on local research and writing

This was to be my first workshop with the club and I felt a bit nervous. The speaker at this workshop was Debby Broughton-Hay, a… Read More »Workshop: Debby Broughton-Hay: Short scripts, sketches and The Simpsons

Once again our feedback night showcased a diverse collection of works from AWC members who were brave enough to present their short stories, poems, scripts… Read More »February Feedback Evening

Margaret Skea: A Sense of Place and Period. 25th November 2015 The President’s theme for this year is A Sense of Place and Margaret Skea’s… Read More »Margaret Skea: A Sense of Place and Period

What would success look like for a writers’ club? A large, engaged membership? Success in national and other competitions? A cohort of published authors with… Read More »January Success Night Blog by John Eden

The first meeting of 2016 took the format of a workshop led by our very own Mauchline Belle, Janice Johnston. From the minute I saw… Read More »2016 begins…

It was 7.10 pm. A cold, damp Wednesday night in Ayr High Street, no-one about. Suddenly we spied a brightly lit shop and a warm… Read More »Festive Fun

The largest writers’ club in Scotland, almost standing room only, and after one and a half meetings I am being asked to write the blog… Read More »Conversation Piece

A wet, windy and wild Wednesday * – the kind of night you just want to curl up on the sofa with a cuppa in… Read More »Wild Wednesday

It was well worth an outing on a blustery, inclement night, to listen to Cathy MacPhail. Just the thing to take minds off more mundane… Read More »An Evening with Cathy MacPhail

I’m so glad I braved November’s dreichy drizzle to attend Maggie’s workshop. Children’s Non-Fiction seemed a big shift for this Fiction writer but at the… Read More »Children’s Non Fiction Workshop by Maggie Bolton

Any expectations of an academic dissertation on literary biography had already been undermined by my reading of a libel case judgement that quoted extensively from… Read More »Alan Taylor: Writing Writers’ Lives