In the midst of the spooky season, nothing instantly fills me with terror more than the thought of performing in public. The skill building workshop,… Read More »Performing Your Poem – Skill Builder – Ken O’Hara – 8 OCTOBER 2025
This evening, the quines and loons were treated to an evening with award winning poet, Lesley Benzie, who demonstrated how writing in a regional dialect… Read More »Lesley Benzie – The Doric Language in Poetry – 1st October 2025 – Copy
It seems that spooky season has arrived early. The evenings are drawing in, and supermarket shelves are already stacked with Halloween goodies. This was certainly… Read More »The Elements of Horror Writing – Skills Builder-24th September 2025
Big tales, few words. How difficult can it be to write flash fiction – that is, complete short stories comprising a few hundred words? Well,… Read More »How to Write Flash Fiction – 17th September 2025
Allan Gaw is a Scottish writer and the winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel Prize in 2024, for the first book in his… Read More »An Evening with Allan Gaw – 10 September 2025
What a start to Ayr Writers’ Club 2025/26! Lots of new potential members and familiar faces made for an exciting start to the year as… Read More »AWC Opening Night 3 September 2025
A successful season of AWC summer readarounds came to an end last night with the final stop on our tour of Ayrshire. Susan welcomed the… Read More »Readaround 20 August 2025
Our club’s Readaround season moved from Prestwick back to Ayr on Wednesday night. The club’s charabanc chugged onto St. Leonard’s Road, and a new venue… Read More »Summer Readaround – 6 August 2025
Was it the prospect of listening to a jam-packed night of excellent writing, or the irresistible lure of Jennifer’s promised lemon drizzle cake, home-baked of… Read More »Summer Readaround 23 July 2025
All roads led to Doonfoot for the third readaround of the Ayr Writers’ Club summer season. A warm welcome was provided by Chris as a… Read More »Summer Readaround 9 July 2025
AWC members received a warm welcome from Carolyn, our host for the evening, who ushered us into the ‘reading room’ where we were subsumed by… Read More »Summer Readaround 25 June 2025
Much to my shame, I haven’t visited Culzean for many years, not since my kids were wee, when a trip to the castle and the… Read More »Culzean Bookshop Readaround 11 June 2025