Sep 2024 | |
4th | Welcome Night – Introductions and Wish You Were Here in a Flash? |
11th | Guest Speaker – John Binnie – Practical Drama Writing Workshop |
18th | Workshop – Spotlight on Sketch Writing – Helena Sheridan |
25th | Club Night |
Oct 2024 | |
2nd | Guest Speaker – Tony Black – Getting Crime Right – writing police procedural novels |
9th | Feedback Night |
16th | Guest Speaker – Sarah Smith – Short Stories – Keep the Faith |
23rd | Presentation – ‘How to Use Macros’ – Stephen Cashmore |
30th | No Meeting/Committee Meeting |
Nov 2024 | |
6th | Club Night |
13th | Guest Speaker – CJ Cooke – Author of ‘The Lighthouse Witches’ – a gothic thriller |
20th | Workshop – Crafting Catastrophe – the art of dystopian world building – Susan McVey |
27th | Feedback Night |
Dec 2024 | |
4th | Dragon’s Pen: 3-minute pitches to 3 Dragons – Carrie Watts, Kirsty Hammond & Linda Brown |
11th | XMAS EVENT – Book Talk, Raffle, Xmas Quiz – (Competition: 50 word Flash Fiction) |
18th | NO MEETING |
25th | NO MEETING |
Jan 2025 | |
1st | NO MEETING |
8th | NO MEETING |
15th | Club Night |
22nd | Guest Speaker – Catherine Czerkawska – The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Researching and Writing Non-Fiction |
29th | Workshop – Non-Fiction – From Curiosity to Creativity – Carolyn O’Hara |
Feb 2025 | |
5th | Guest Speaker – Maria Cairnie – Writing Picture Books for Children |
12th | Workshop – Children’s Fiction – Finding Picture Book Ideas – Marion Husband |
19th | No meeting/Committee Meeting |
26th | Feedback Night |
Mar 2025 | |
5th | Workshop – Poetry – Topping and Tailing Your Poem – Damaris West |
12th | Guest Speaker- Alison Chisholm – Poetry of the Night |
19th | Club Night |
21st – 23rd | WEEKEND CONFERENCE – Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) |
26th | SAW Success Night |
Apr 2025 | |
2nd | Feedback Night |
9th | Sharing Published Successes |
16th | Let’s Talk About Books |
23rd | Ayrshire Drabble Scribble Competition |
30th | AWC Trophy Winners Night |
May 2025 | |
7th | AGM |
14th | Ayr Writers’ Club Awards Dinner |
21st | NO MEETING |
28th | NO MEETING |
Summer readarounds (June – August 2025) will be arranged closer to time. | |