A room without a view! We are now confirmed to have changed location within the Mercure for the foreseeable. There are no windows, and it… Read More »YA fiction writing with Kirsty Hammond – 28th September 2022
Acting, bar work, waiting on tables, teaching: and amidst them all, a succession of rejections for novel after novel after novel. Writer of teenage science… Read More »A Teenage Sci-Fi Evening With Ben Oliver – 21 September 2022
What is your chosen writing genre? Are you essentially a poet, a children’s writer, a crime novelist, a writer of romantic fiction? Do you prefer… Read More »Putting on the Style – September 14th, 2022
Late September sun burned low and bright as members, and prospective members, gathered in the Mercure Hotel for the first night of AYR WRITERS’ new… Read More »NEW SESSION, NEW PRESIDENT, NEW ENTHUSIAM: Ayr Writers 2022-23
Where had the summer gone? The evenings were a little darker, kids had swapped swimsuits and ice lollies for school uniforms and textbooks once more,… Read More »Last, but certainly not least … – Summer Readaround 24 August 2022
A hot summer’s night – but seven members resisted the temptations of sun-loungers in the garden or ice-creams down the beach and, instead, eagerly logged… Read More »Fun and Games – Almost a Heptathlon – Summer Readaround – 10 August 2022
It’s amazing what you learn at read-arounds. Tennessee Williams, for instance, died by choking on a bottle top and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo… Read More »I’ll Bet You Didn’t Know That – Summer Readaround 27 July 2022
There were five left on the screen, each ready, prepared, and scripted, and about to share their ideas and their vision. And fortunately, there wasn’t… Read More »At A Time Of Debate; Summer Readaround – 13 July 2022
Twelve cheerful faces filled our Zoom squares for the latest in our Summer Readaround meetings. Fiona Atchison was our host and, having established a reading… Read More »Another Readaround Miscellany – 29 June 2022
A cracking June evening and the No-Good Nine – the kids your parents warned you to stay away from *, were gathered around their laptops,… Read More »Mountains, Mysteries, Midges and More – Summer Readaround 15 June 2022
After the pageantry of awards season at Ayr Writers, it was time to uncap the fountain pens and power up the laptops in an effort… Read More »Readarounds come back round – 1 June 2022
Back at the beginning of May, after the AGM formalities were concluded, Jeanette got us cogitating. I suspect it’s an activity that could be described… Read More »Post-AGM Musings – aka – the less boring stuff – 4 May 2022