February 2nd 2022 – Self-Publishing: All you Need To Know
GWC’s Self-Publishing guru Grahame Anderson gave us a all a masterclass on how promote your writing to a wider world. A natural raconteur Graham began by introducing himself, family and his door-top cat (don’t ask). New to writing and worried about imposter syndrome Grahame’s first encounter with GWC (where he found everyone dressed in togas […]
January 19th 2022 – Writing A Memoir – David Mackie
Last night our guest speaker was David Mackie, musician, conductor and memoir writer. It is always interesting to hear from someone from one of the other arts to get their take on writing and David did not disappoint. As an old Ex-Greenock Academy pupil he developed a love of Gilbert and Sullivan from the annual […]
January 12th 2022 – Social Writing Group – Virtual Book Swap/Recommendations
Alas Laurie was unable to give her talk on 21st century libraries last night but we can look forward to it another night, hopefully soon. So our annual book swap morphed, via the imposition of Zoom, into an interesting list of book recommendation and some lively discussion among members. Whether you like a snack-able bedtime […]
January 5th 2022 – Adjudication Of Poetry Competition on Autumn Theme
Well last night saw us all back on the end of a zoom call again. At some point sometime, somewhere we will get back to face to face meetings again. Trust me it will happen. We just need to be patient and keep safe. Anne had to depart early because of a migraine so hope […]
December 8th 2021 – Adjudication Short Story Based on Fact – Christmas Flash Fiction
Well last night saw the end of the first half of our season (and hopefully our Zoom meetings) and featured the adjudication of the short story (based on fact) competition. Due to prior commitments Theresa Talbot could not be there but Laurie stepped up to the plate to deliver Theresa’s constructive comments and announce the […]
December 1st 2021 – Crime Writing – Gordon Brown
Last night it rained so hard the fish were jumping out the river to get wet and ‘Chancellor’ GB was wishing he never jumped at all at the offer to zoom-time GWC. The motley crew assembled barely looked up from grooming their cats (not a euphemism) and it was a coin toss as to whether […]
November 17rh 2021 – Slam Poetry: Katherine MacFarlane
I AM SLAM Ain’t no limits, anything by anyone. ‘Cept for 3 minutes, then you’re done. Rhyme and rhythm, fast and slow. Catching up, letting go. Alive and kicking in your face, alliteration helps with pace. No time to waste, words have to shake. Get in the hook, twist till it breaks. Halfway to hip-hop, […]
November 3rd 2021 – Peer Editing
Big shout out to Ex-Presidente Grahame who stepped out of his sickbed and up to the job of standing in for me at last nights Peer Editing Session. Hope you’re feeling better today Grahame. I’d also like to thank Paul for being brave enough to put his story up for scrutiny. The GWC members though, […]
October 27th 2021 – SWG: Halloween Flash Fiction or Poem
Any lingering doubts on the sanity of GWC members was put to bed last night in a mad-cap roundabout of slam sunk poetry and crazy-weird flash fiction. Tony kicked things off and set the tone with his rendition of Pilgrim’s Progress that seen the intrepid Stacey Marie run the gauntlet of Morris Men and mad […]
October 20th 2021 – Poetry Talk : Burnished Leaves – Leela Soma
It was a poetry feast last night as Leela Soma gave GWC members plenty to chew over with her informative talk on the poetic arts. Originally from Madras in India, Leela moved to Scotland in 1969 where she worked as a Modern Studies teacher before spreading her wings as a poet, novelist and creative writing […]