Following our face-to-face get together in the library, we'll be having another online meeting next. Alternating the two types helps some of our more far-flung members continue to participate. The exercise for the meeting is to write using one of these three ideas for a story.  Please choose one and create a story.  You can… Continue reading Our next Zoom meeting will be 6th December.

A few members made it to our first meeting back in Lennoxtown Library on 15th November. The meeting started with Catriona Cameron from Carers Link telling us about a Shared Reading project with St Ninians High School. We’ll be getting involved with that in the future. After that, inspired by this soft toy photo, we… Continue reading We had our first live meeting since….

After so many months while our activities have been limited to meeting online, we're delighted to be having our first get together back in Lennoxtown Library. The date is Monday 15th November from 1.00 to 2.30pm. Cariona Cameron, from Carers Link, will be coming along to tell us about the Shared Reading project with St… Continue reading November 15th – back to the Library

Many thanks to Kim MacLeod of Indie Authors World who joined our Zoom meeting on November 1st. She gave us lots of information and things to think about as she talked about going down the route of independent publishing rather than trying to get in with a traditional publisher, and how her business can help.… Continue reading Kim MacLeod’s talk

"The Campsie Writer's Group has to be one of the most relaxed set of people I now have the pleasure of calling my friends." Debra Murphy has given Campsie Writers Group a mention in her latest blog post over at Mother Murphy's. See what else she said here.

Our Zoom meeting will be held at 1pm on Monday, November 1st. We're delighted that our guest speaker will be Kim MacLeod of Indie Authors World. Indie Authors is a local business which provides services to help writers take their stories from draft manuscript to a saleable product. Several of our members have already used… Continue reading Zoom Meeting – 1st November

We have scheduled a Zoom meeting for Monday 20th September at 1pm. Graham has again set a pentagram challenge, the exercise is to write a five sentence story using all of the five words - future, articulate, briefly, flying, passionate

One of the many things which we've missed during the pandemic is public Meet the Author events. As a sign of better days coming, our esteemed baker/author Debra has arranged a long belated launch of her book 'The Magical Tearoom on the Hill'.The date is Friday 20th August, come along any time between 4 and… Continue reading Meet the Author – Debra Murphy

To keep things moving through the summer we're going to have a Zoom meeting on 9th August. Graham has set a variation of a Decagram Challenge this time. Instead of ten words there are five, the twist is that you should only write five sentences with each sentence containing one of the set words. The… Continue reading Zoom Meeting – 9th August 2021

With several members having plans to travel in June we're going to make this the last meeting before the summer break. Graham has set a decagram exercise, so get your stories written. The words to be used are: bills, pink, message, dappled, framed, swallow, crisp, trembling, custard, barrow