The shortest month of the year may have whizzed past in a flash, but the brevity of February didn’t stop AWC members from achieving success.
Speaking of flash, Matt Richardson’s atmospheric flash fiction Listen (2nd in last year’s AWC flash competition), has been published online at Writers from Scars Publications and will appear in the print magazine Down in the Dirt later this spring.
Damaris West has been super busy this month. Her poem Navigation was highly commended in the Edward Thomas Memorial Poetry Competition. Damaris has also published an ebook on Kindle ( available on Amazon) – the wonderfully titled – The Wolves of Little Mouse Valley.
Two of the club’s poets were in good form at the recent Screivin’n’Scran event at Irvine’s Harbour Art Centre. Carolyn O’Hara read her poems, Liminal (written for club competition a few years ago) and Stepping through Life, an account of a long life through the prism of shoes. Tracy Harvey gave a debut reading of Hvaldimir the Beluga Whale as well as audience favourites It’s No a Potato, It’s Tattie and Psychopath. Tracy reports that the poetry event was a fun night in the company of a clamjamfrie of Ayrshire poets.
Another of our poets, Fiona McFadzean was broadcast several times over a week, reading her cat-inspired poem For the Love of…Ode to Sooty on Arran Sound Radio.
Meanwhile yet another of our poets, Rose McGregor, had the fantastic experience of reading her poem In Her Mither’s Fit Steps at Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh. Originally published in an Anthology of stories and poems on women’s football called A Most Unsuitable Game, Rose’s poem is about her late daughter’s love for football.
Bringing up the rear on this roll of success is Linda Brown. Her article, Keeping it in the Family – Using Family History Research to Inspire Historical Writing, was published in the March edition of the online magazine aimed at the worldwide writing community Writers Narrative – Writers’ Narrative March 2025 by scottandlawson – Issuu
What a fab February. Congrats to our talented members and keep on writing!