GWC – 24th January – Memoir Writing with Laurie Donaldson
Memoir Writing with Laurie Donaldson What a treat it was to have our very own Vice-President, Laurie, give an engaging session on writing memoir. Laurie’s career has ranged from Glasgow University’s Library to a technology and education publisher in London – his extensive editing experience and exquisite poetic voice make him the perfect guide […]
GWC Session January-March 2024
Happy New Year and Welcome Back to the new Session of Greenock Writers Club for January to March 2024. The session got off to a great start with Danny McCahon adjudicating the Drama Competition , and announcing our worthy Prize Winners. Danny told us he thought the standard of writing was outstanding, before giving background […]
GWC – November 15th and 22nd – Competition, Lee Jeans Documentary and On The Spot Humour/Characters with Paul Kelly
Competition Winners and Diarmid MacArthur’s Feedback Unfortunately, Diarmid was unable to attend our competition adjudication but he did offer some invaluable feedback for our first competition on ‘Scottish Crime Writing’. As a crime writer himself, Diarmid kindly provided detailed feedback for our members and praised the standard of entries. He said: ‘It […]
GWC – 8th November 2023 Writing Room
Writers Room – Writing Drama based on real event This week our club members were challenged with creating Drama based on a real event – namely the Lee Jeans Factory Sit-In of 1981. Danny McCahon local screenwriter, held a Writers Room in April of last year with club members. The purpose was to write some […]
GWC-1st November 2023 Book Review
GWC – 1st November 2023 Book Review Evening After our Halloween Revels last week, Our President Margaret, gave us a short talk on how to write a Book Review. This week, we all brought our five hundred words Book Review and read them out, in the hope of winning the Puffin Trophy (a recent discovery […]
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 – 1st March 2023 – Danny McCahon
The Clubs Radio Play competition was adjudicated by Inverclydes’ finest playwright , Danny McCahon. There were four excellent entries but it was Frankies’ play called ‘And as I wonder what you are’ , that was the Competition Winner. Danny recapped his advice on how to lay out a Radio Play on paper with emphasis on […]
GWC – 15th February 2023 – Steve Barron
Steve Barron , brother of our very own published writer Helen Hefferman, joined our meeting to give a talk of the Maritime Writing. Steve is a published author of three books on Train Ferries , a very specialist subject and a book on Fast Ferries. He is, in his own words a Transport Nerd and […]
GWC – 1st February 2023 – Paul Kelly
The Clubs resident Pilgrim had returned from his travels along the El Camino de Santiago de Compostela to host our evenings talk. And a most interesting and entertaining evening as Paul shared his trip along this ancient Pilgrim Way starting at St. Jean-Pied du Port in France and ending up at the Tomb of Saint […]
GWC 18th January 2023
January comes with Gales, frost and lots of varying lurgies of which at least 12 have infected me since the New Year. Apologies for the lack of Blog posting of late. However, our speaker on Wednesday 18th January helped blow away the January Blues and put a spring in our step , an artists notepad […]