The Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) are running a couple of competitions over the summer months, with online entry and enticing prizes. The… Read More »SAW Summer Competitions – Short Story and Poetry
Colin Bancroft, a widely-published poet living in the North Pennines and with a strong Twitter following, reached out for help to the Twitter writing community … Read More »UK and Ireland Directory of Poetry Journals, Magazines and Websites
Maggie Morton is one of Ayr Writers’ Club’s newest members. With a flair for poetry, a few good pals who just love Christmas, she’s cleverly… Read More »Lockdown at the North Pole – A Poem by Maggie Morton
The spirit of Coronavirus-hit literary festivals is to be resurrected, kept alive, with this month’s announcement of The Big Book Weekend (taking place on Friday… Read More »Online, Free, Literary Festival – Big Book Weekend – 8-10 May 2020
Ayr Writers’ Club member, Suzy A. Kelly, fresh from Short Story Competition success at the recent Scottish Association of Writers’ National Writing Awards, has gone… Read More »Suzy A. Kelly’s Prize-Winning Flash Fiction Published in Highland Magazine
The annual SAW Poetry Wall Competition, which is usually a fixed part of the Glasgow conference in March, has gone online this year. All affiliated… Read More »Scottish Association of Writers’ Poetry Wall Competition
Such a lot to celebrate for the members of Ayr Writers’ Club this week, as the Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) released, by video, the… Read More »Ayr Writers Excel at 2020 Scottish Association of Writers’ National Writing Awards
The 100 Day Writing Challenge is a free fiction writing course, by podcast. Each episode contains a 10 minute exercise, complete with timer, to help… Read More »Free Online Fiction Writing Course – 10 Minutes Writing A Day, For 100 Days
One of our very newest Ayr Writers’ Club members, Lou, moved to South Ayrshire from the Isle of Man only 18 months ago. An avid… Read More »Lou’s Family Blog
Ayr Writers’ Club stalwarts, Fiona Aitchinson, Helena Sheridan, Janice Johnstone and Greta Yorke, four members of the acclaimed LiterEight writing group, were recently invited to… Read More »Ayr Writers’ Club’s LiterEight Group are Invited Guest Speakers at Local Community Guild
Ayr Writers’ Club Treasurer, Nigel Ward, has climbed some mountains in his time – all of the 282 Munros in Scotland, for example – but,… Read More »Nigel Ward’s National Competition Win Featured in Scottish Mountaineer Magazine
Swanwick, as it is fondly known, is the world’s longest running week-long writers’ conference. It is set within the heart of Derbyshire, in the height… Read More »Swanwick Writers’ Summer School – 8-14 August 2020