This evening, the quines and loons were treated to an evening with award winning poet, Lesley Benzie, who demonstrated how writing in a regional dialect… Read More »Lesley Benzie – The Doric Language in Poetry – 1st October 2025 – Copy
It seems that spooky season has arrived early. The evenings are drawing in, and supermarket shelves are already stacked with Halloween goodies. This was certainly… Read More »The Elements of Horror Writing – Skills Builder-24th September 2025
Allan Gaw is a Scottish writer and the winner of the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel Prize in 2024, for the first book in his… Read More »An Evening with Allan Gaw – 10 September 2025
What a start to Ayr Writers’ Club 2025/26! Lots of new potential members and familiar faces made for an exciting start to the year as… Read More »AWC Opening Night 3 September 2025
August seemed to race by, but never fear, AWC members still managed to delight, publish, and perform! Three members of Litereight, Helena Sheridan, Greta Yorke… Read More »AWC Successes in August 2025
A successful season of AWC summer readarounds came to an end last night with the final stop on our tour of Ayrshire. Susan welcomed the… Read More »Readaround 20 August 2025
Our club’s Readaround season moved from Prestwick back to Ayr on Wednesday night. The club’s charabanc chugged onto St. Leonard’s Road, and a new venue… Read More »Summer Readaround – 6 August 2025
While many members have been thinking about holidays and visits to family and friends in July, a few intrepid AWC members have been busy writing… Read More »AWC Successes in July 2025
Was it the prospect of listening to a jam-packed night of excellent writing, or the irresistible lure of Jennifer’s promised lemon drizzle cake, home-baked of… Read More »Summer Readaround 23 July 2025
All roads led to Doonfoot for the third readaround of the Ayr Writers’ Club summer season. A warm welcome was provided by Chris as a… Read More »Summer Readaround 9 July 2025
AWC members were out and about in June performing their poems and taking part in festivals. Fiona McFadzean, Tracy Harvey and Greta Yorke all took… Read More »AWC Successes in June 2025
Marion, the author of three colourful picture books hails from Govan and was brought up without books until she was able to visit the local… Read More »Marion C Husband – Finding Picture Book Ideas – 12th February 2025