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
Aye Write is back for 2020, from 12-29 March, with – fiction, politics, poetry, crime & thriller, memoir, history, music, and much much more. This… Read More »Aye Write Festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow – 12-29 March 2020
Chase off the January blues with a warming evening of poetry – A Poem, A Pie and a Dram – brought to you by Tidelines,… Read More »10 Open-Mic Spots for Local Poets, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine – 17 Jan 2020
The Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) has been working to support writers since 1978. SAW holds 40 writing groups within its membership and works as… Read More »Weekend Conference, Scottish Association of Writers (SAW) – 20 March 2020
Published 4-book novelist, short story writer, poet, and Ayr Writers’ Club Member, Damaris West’s very first novel, Wild Goose (Crimson Cloak Publishing), has recently undergone a… Read More »Wild Goose – A Novel by Damaris West