Club News

Ayr Writers’ Club members, Gill Sherry and Carolyn O’Hara, have already had amazing writing success this year, with Gill winning a staggering four AWC competition trophies (including the Dorrith Sim Trophy for Published Author of the Year), and Carolyn having her poem, By Chance, selected for inclusion within the Scottish Book Trust’s national publication, Blether,… Read More »Ayrshire Magazine Feature – AWC Club Authors, Gill Sherry and Carolyn O’Hara

Ayr Writers’ Club Membership Secretary, Marion Husband, has had the most extraordinary year. A last-minute, half-hearted decision to add a children’s short story to the Scottish Association of Writers national Under 7s Short Story Competition in January 2020, has brought the type of success writers often dream of. Competition adjudicator, Sarah Grace, just loved Marion’s… Read More »Marion Husband’s Competition-Winning Children’s Story Snapped up for International Publication

Feel Free by Zadie Smith Reviewed by Matthew Richardson Word Count 499 Penguin Books, 452 pages ISBN: 9780241971024 £9.99 Lore dictates that any exploration of… Read More »Book Review by Matthew Richardson ~ ‘Feel Free’ by Zadie Smith

The latest winter Newsletter from the Scottish Community Heritage Alliance and the Scottish Local History Forum, in association with Ayr Writers Guild, has provided a… Read More »Avenues for Research

The Nature of Spring by Jim Crumley Reviewed by Nigel Ward Word Count 490 Saraband, 2019, 240pp 9781912235377 £12.99 Woodcocks burst from the undergrowth, “broad… Read More »Book Review by Nigel Ward ~ ‘The Nature of Spring’ by Jim Crumley

  The Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) has recently announced this year’s annual writing competitions are up and running. With online closing dates of Saturday… Read More »Scottish Asssociation of Writers’ Annual Writing Competitions

Oculeus is the Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society published non-fiction book from Ayr Writers’ Club Archivist, member, Carolyn O’Hara. A 6-year undertaking to research… Read More »Carolyn O’Hara’s Book Publication – Oculeus

Ayr Writers’ Club member, Damaris West, has revamped, updated, and added to her personal writing website, Damaris’ Writing. Filled with so many published poems, snippets… Read More »Damaris’ Writing – A Website Updated

Ayr Writers’ Club members, Greta Yorke and Maggie Bolton, have eschewed the more traditional methods of launching their very latest Tartan Witch children’s story this… Read More »Virtual Launch of the Latest Tartan Witch Illustrated Children’s Book by Greta Yorke and Maggie Bolton

As Ayr Writers’ Club limbers up for the beginning of the new writing year, the start of the 2020/21 Programme, Writing Magazine is releasing a… Read More »Competition Guide 2020-21, Writing Magazine

Ayr Writers’ Club member, Suzy A. Kelly, has found a writing method that really works. It’s been so successful in fact, that, not only has… Read More »Double Publication Joy for AWC Writer, Suzy A. Kelly

  Scottish Book Trust are a national charity that has been bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland for 21 years.… Read More »Next Chapter Award – Closing Date 2 September 2020