Last night saw the grand finale to The Greenock Writers club season with our annual dinner which on this occasion took place at Gourock Golf Club where good food and resplendent views were enjoyed by over 20 of the club’s members. Guest Adjudicator, Mary Edward, was also present and delivered her verdict on the eight […]
The SAW conference was a carry-on! Tony came away with a HC and a bronze (WOW!). Grahame came away with a new title – Vice-President of SAW (kisses to Isobel and Fiona for voting).
Which was your favourite Scottish favourite place sketch? Did you plum for thrush at the check out; wind under your tablecloth; […]
Last night guest adjudicator Karl Pittom, rugby fan, drama teacher and one-time extra in a Eurovision prom video (‘A Yodel in the Canyon of Love!’), gave us the benefit of his expertise in judging the six entries in our Scottish sketch competition.
El Presidente, Grahame, kicked off proceedings by asking Karl ‘if he knew what he […]
DANKE to Franziska for putting herself under the spotlight in our third Peer Assessment workshop. Hopefully the feedback will strengthen, what the group already considered to be, a strong story. The Dragon of Irvine was alive and well in the minds of the feedback-ers despite the presence of witches, lances and berserkers. A big DANKE […]
John McLean, our resident droll, regaled us all with a selection of his idiosyncratic, irreverent and irrepressible wit and humour. No subject was off limits, from religion and politics to the more embarrassing parts of the human body, John showed no mercy. From elephants in stockings to multi-testiculated moluscs; for John it was all just […]
Last night saw guest speaker Mary Edward musing on the nature of memoirs, prior to the upcoming competition on that genre. A history graduate, English teacher, published author and past president of SAW meant Mary had a great deal of knowledge to share not to mention a few secrets! Arruff! She defined a memoir as […]
Collaboration was the name of the game last night and Sarah had certainly done her homework on the subject. We kicked off with a series of linked poems where each person did a few lines of a poem then passed it on to the next member. Apparently this is very big in Japan where it […]
Stephen King, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust and Grahame Anderson. What do they all have in common? Answer is an aversion to writer’s block. That’s where the prompts come in. From one word to a whole scenario. Unlock your mind and let the words bubble over on to the page. Don’t be frightened. Explore […]
We were all shortbread-ed out! Burns’ night at Greenock Writers’ Club, and if our resident sweet-heart Edith wasn’t sweet enough there was fudge and tablet too. We might have only been toasting Burns with cold water and hot tea but we certainly got into the spirit of things. Rab C Nesbitt made a couple of […]
Just a quick reminder that Anne Pettigrew is having the launch of her novel ‘Not the Life Imagined’ in the Curlers Rest, Byres Road (beside Hillhead Underground station) at 7pm on 24th January (tonight!) and she’d be delighted if anyone from the club could come along.
Our scheduled guest speaker Karl Pitton had unfortunately double […]