Yvonne Lyon Singer Songwriter Creative
Singer-songwriter Yvonne Lyon This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming the incredibly talented musician Yvonne Lyon to GreenockWriters Club to talk about all things songwriting and the impact of song in her life and its importance. Yvonne told us about her background growing up in a busy home, and how going to sitaway at […]
Little Group of Horrors (Writers)
GWC- Wednesday 29th October- Leona Thomson on Horror Writing Halloween Week! With Halloween just around the corner, the Greenock Writers Club was in the spooky mood this week, as we were treated to an amazing talk by member Leona Thomson on all things horror writing! Including a brief history of horror storytelling, the dos and […]
BAFTA Winner Danny McCahon
GWC – Wednesday 22nd October – Danny McCahon Playwright and Screenwriter Danny McCahon This week, we had the pleasure of welcoming a long-time friend of Greenock Writers Club, the talented, award-winning Scottish screenwriter Danny McCahon. As a writer for some of the most well-known soaps in the country, such as Emmerdale, Doctors, Casualty, and London […]
New Session with great Speakers
GWC – Wednesday 15th October – First Sessions and Heather Parry Welcome Back! With a brand new venue at the Wyllieum and an impressive syllabus, this year’s sessions at Greenock Writers’ Club have been off to a fantastic start! So far, we’ve welcomed club members Tracy Rogers and Robert Mckenzie who have hosted brilliant sessions […]
Greenock Writers Club AGM 2025
The Annual General Meeting of the Greenock Writers Club will take place on Wednesday March 26th 2025 at 7.30pm in Ardgowan Bowling Club. All members and potential new members are cordially invited to attend, and provide input as to what they would like from the writers club in the upcoming year. Here GWC24AGM is a […]
Published Author visit – Alan Bisset
Last Wednesday 29th January, our club was treated to a visit by author Alan Bisset. Alan is now a well known and highly published author and playwright, who, after starting to write in his teens went on to complete a full length novel . He attended the Stirling writers group where he honed his writing […]
Danny McCahon Writers Room
Our favourite Soap Scriptwriter and BAFTA winner Danny McCahon visited Greenock Writers last Wednesday (22md January). Danny recounted his career briefly before going into further detail of his experience in writing for Soaps and Serialised programmes. One of this favourites was writing for ‘London’s Burning’, but he has also written for East Enders and Emmerdale. […]
A Happy New Year 2025
And so begins our Session in 2025 with our VP Laurie Donaldson adjudicating the Poetry Competition and providing the results. Laurie commented on the diverse range and style of the entries as well as the standard. He also provided Key elements for effective poetry : Strong Imagery – Vivid Sensory details that paint pictures and […]
Welcome Back !
Welcome back everyone to a new Session of the Greenock Writers Club 2024/25. It was great to be back at GWC and see some weel kent faces aswell as new. Margaret Grant our President started off the meeting updating everyone on what to look forward to this year. There are some excellent Outside Speakers in […]
GWC 20th August – Graeme Bowman Book Launch Evening 6/8/24
Empire First Book Launch Greenock Writers very own Historian Graeme Bowman had his very worthy Tome launched on Tuesday 6th August. The site was not Scott Lithgow’s Shipyard but Waterstones Bookshop on Byres Road Glasgow. The photos’ below testify to its sucess, unfortunately the writer of this blog post could not attend. However I have […]