Weren’t we, those who Zoomed, the lucky ones on Wednesday night? Being read were successes from the previous weekend’s Scottish Association of Writers competitions and… Read More »SAW Successes Take A Bow – 24th March 2021
Wednesday night came round again, with its now familiar routine of logging on to Zoom with my fellow AWC members. This week our Club Night… Read More »Want playtime to be dramatic? Check out your seven deadly sins…. Revealing Characters through Dialogue, led by Helena Sheridan – 10 March 2021
On Wednesday evening, Ayr Writers’ Club were treated to a workshop run by our very own Janice Johnston. Janice joined the Club in the mid-’90s,… Read More »Ayr Writers’ Club Embrace Their Inner Child – 24 February 2021
Carolyn O’Hara’s infectious enthusiasm and passion for historical non-fiction writing brought our screens to life, guiding a busy Zoom session of nineteen participants through her… Read More »Truth is Stranger Than Fiction* – Bringing the Past to Life – Non-Fiction Workshop with Carolyn O’Hara – 17 February 2021
Flash Fiction is all about compression. Take a short story you like, halve it, again, then again. Make every word earn its keep, cut out… Read More »Karen Jones on Flash Competitions – 3 February 2021
A.W.C. was treated to a highly enjoyable and informative evening as our own Ken McGaffin and journalist John Crowley shared their expertise. Co-authors of their,… Read More »Grab yourself a journalist: self-publishing and self-promotion with Ken McGaffin and John Crowley – 27 January 2021
To do justice to the wealth of advice and ideas Linda Strachan shared with the assembled Zoom Squares on Wednesday evening it would simply require… Read More »Subverting the obvious from Tuscany to the bathroom: Writing for children with Linda Strachan – 20 January 2021
Ken McGaffin, committee member and moderator for the evening, gave a warm and enthusiastic introduction for Henry Bell: the editor-in-chief of the award-winning Gutter magazine,… Read More »An evening with Henry Bell: biographer, poet, editor – 13 January 2021
Gathered round our screens, we waited for the Sanquhar Santa (aka Jeanette our President) to read us a story, to give us some cheer, to… Read More »‘Twas the night before Christmas: a Party and Awards Evening – 9 December 2020
There was a good turn-out for this extremely lively, entertaining and (exercise-wise) challenging talk by Jenny Lindsay. As one of Scotland’s best known spoken words… Read More »Poetically Performing Spoken Theatre, with Jenny Lindsay – 2 December 2020
Carolyn O’Hara kicked off the evening with a rousing and heartfelt introduction to her friend and fellow AWC member, Greta Yorke. She touched on Greta’s… Read More »Humorous Poetry: Rhyme Time with Greta Yorke – 25 November 2020
The second club night of the 2020-2021 season proved that Ayr Writers’ Club members’ pens and fertile imagination are always at the ready. Jeanette launched… Read More »Ghosts, Invisibility and the Spectre of a Certain Mr. D Trump – 11 November 2020