GWC – 17th January – Children’s Writing with Grace McKelvie
Last Wednesday’s session was a writer’s delight as Grace McKelvie joined Greenock Writers’ Club to talk about writing for children. Grace worked in Inverclyde for many years as a primary school teacher but her expertise in the field of Arts education – including her time as a freelance consultant for BBC Education and The […]
GWC – October 11th and 15th – Scots Language and Beyond Form Creative Writing
Our wee club has been busy as ever lately with a number of speakers encouraging our members to experiment with different forms and genres of writing. Whatever your style, we’re sure you will find something useful in the following recap of some of our recent sessions! Scots Language with Stacey Campbell I […]
GWC – 4th October – Crime Writing with Anne Pettigrew
On Wednesday it was lovely to welcome back GWC’s ex-president and local crime author, Anne Pettigrew, who provided a stimulating session on writing crime and how best to tap into this genre. Anne has written three novels: Not the Life Imagined, Not the Deaths Imagined and The Carnelian Tree. The first elevates the female experience […]
GWC – 27th September – Scottish Association of Writers with President Grahame Anderson
This evening the Greenock Writers’ Club had the pleasure of hosting our own club member and SAW President, Grahame Anderson, who was telling us all about the Scottish Association of Writers (SAW). SAW has been running for fifty-four years and was, interestingly, originally founded by a member of Greenock Writers’ Club. Why SAW? For writers, […]
GWC – 13th September 2023 – Welcome and Introductions
Our first meeting of the new session began with our president Margaret, and secretary Mhairi welcoming familiar faces (and some lovely new ones!). The syllabus ahead promises a delightful mix of poetry, playwriting, book reviews and some truly impressive speakers. We also have five competitions to enter, with the first being a Scottish Crime Story […]
GWC – 2nd November 2022 – My Kind of Poetry with Margaret Grant
To kickstart our November sessions, Greenock Writers’ Club was provided the pleasure of a poetry workshop hosted by our very own secretary, Margaret Grant, who is herself an astonishing free verse poet and who paid homage to one of her inspirations, the inimitable Mary Oliver. Margaret began the session with a beautiful reading of Oliver’s […]
March 16th 2022 – Peer Editing Workshop
My first time back at Ardgowan last night. What a change from Zoom! The big room was spacious and airy, there was hand sanitiser and each of us had a six foot table all to ourselves! Felt like a very safe environment and, apart from the mask wearing, GWC was just like it used to […]
March 2nd 2022 – Young Adult Fiction and Adjudication of Memoir Competition
It was a red letter day for GWC. After over 50 years in existence we were forced out of meeting in person for two years because of the scourge of Covid19. We continued online using Zoom which to many of us gave us some sanity in the early days of lockdown but also became a […]
February 23rd 2022 – Lee Jeans Sit-In Workshop
Screenplay writer Danny (working with Rig Arts) hosted last nights workshop on the Lee Jeans Sit-In which happened at the factory in Larkfield, Greenock back in 1981. RIG Arts is a multi-award winning socially engaged charity that brings artists and the community together in a collaborative, creative way using art & film. Their aim is […]
February 16th 2022 – Books and Movies
Big thanks to El Presidente Anne for all the work she put in to a very professional presentation on Book and Movie reviews. Anne also very thoughtfully made her slide-show available so rather than suffer my scribbled notes do peruse the do’s and don’ts of reviewing here BooksAndMoviesReviews. After tea members treated us all to […]