Martin McCardie, actor; play-wright; screen writer and BBC producer, played to a full house on Wednesday evening, and what an entertaining and informative evening it… Read More »Scripts and screens, with Martin McCardie – 4 December 2019
‘First sentences are doors to worlds’ – Ursula K Le Guin Split into groups of four, notebooks and pens poised, sluggish brains cranked into first… Read More »Take Five Opening Lines – 27 November 2019
This was no chat! It was a deluge of advice, hints, humour and experience from a most enthusiastic writer. I do not recall the club… Read More »Bill Coles: Fiction Chat – 20 November 2019
It was a brisk, clear evening last Wednesday, when I arrived at the Mercure Hotel. The rising, full moon was casting an anticipatory glow and,… Read More »A Glowing Feedback – 13 November 2019
To a Sassenach whose first exposure to Scots was hearing about ‘dwangs’ in the ‘flair’ while renovating a house, the evening was an eye-opener. Rab… Read More »Scots, a cultural heritage to be shared: poetry with Rab Wilson – 6 November 2019
False identities, deceit, bribes, grave digging, and a tail-less horse. Ayr Writers’ club night was full of unusual items and bizarre events. One bag. Five… Read More »A Slick Production – 23 October 2019
After a wonderful session last week with the very literary and sporty (very!) Helen Palmer, who set the standard for the season with readings from… Read More »Squeezing big ideas into small sentences: non-fiction with Daniel Gray – 16 October 2019
Chris Palmer had requested a large and enthusiastic audience for this workshop and by the time he introduced his daughter Helen on Wednesday evening he… Read More »Disruptive rewriting with Helen Palmer – 9 October 2019
Be there for 7.15 it said. Clarified as p.m. – just in case. I arrived just after seven – just to be safe. Signed my… Read More »Feedback Evening: all in the mind of the reviewer – 2 October 2019
Karen Campbell was our speaker this evening, on her second visit to Ayr Writers’ Club. She has had a varied life, studying English at university,… Read More »How do you want the reader to feel? An evening with Karen Campbell – 25 September 2019
Six-foot iguanas. Schoolboys wandering the jungle. A woman doing… well, we don’t actually know. How do you craft that perfect opening that will hook your… Read More »Great Beginnings for Ayr Writers’ Club – 18 September 2019
While the club’s summer ended in the blaze of an autumnal sunset, the only ashes in evidence were those being competed for south of the… Read More »Opening Night: setting the scene – 11 September 2019