It's National Crime Reading Month and we're helping EDC Libraries celebrating it with a themed meeting in Lennoxtown Library. Come along to hear some readings and discussions. On the subject of crime, Scotland's Crime Fiction festival, Bloody Scotland, has just released its 10th Anniversary programme. Bloody Scotland will be enjoying being back in the real,… Continue reading 20th June – The Crime Month Meeting

Our next meeting will be on Zoom on Monday 6th June at 2pm. Graham has set a challenge to produce a piece of writing which includes the words moon, spoon, June, loon, prune. Being poetic will not be compulsory. Looking ahead, we'll have an in-person meeting in Lennoxtown Library on June 20th. June is National… Continue reading Zoom meeting on 6th June

Debra and Claire We very much enjoyed our appearance at the Kirkintilloch Creative Arts Festival last month, when some of our members got to talk a little about our group and do some readings in front of a live audience. Many thanks to Jen and Creative Spark Theatre Arts for organising it. Our next meeting… Continue reading 4th April Zoom Meeting

It's a busy time for the Writers Group as we're taking part in the Kirkintilloch Creative Arts Festival. On Tuesday 15th, Jennifer MacDonald of Creative Spark Theatre Arts will be running an in-person workshop in Lennoxtown Library. She will be taking us through some structured and free writing exercises. The meeting will run from 1.00… Continue reading Creative Arts Festival in Kirkintilloch

We all enjoyed our in-person meeting in Lennoxtown Library on 21st February. Claire Miller talked about and read from her newly published novel, The Choice. If you missed the meeting you can read an extract on Amazon. There was another opportunity to hear Claire's introduction when she held an online launch with Kim of Indie… Continue reading Claire’s online book launch

We're planning to be back in Lennoxtown Library on February 21st. Our member Claire Miller will be talking about her newly published YA novel 'The Choice'. This will be a free event, but there may have to be some sort of ticketing arrangement as we'll be restricted to 20 people attending. We'll confirm that soon,… Continue reading 21st February – Claire Miller

We had fun at our last January meeting, creating stories inspired by the photo of a street scene in Sicily. The plan for February is to meet online on the 7th, then hopefully have an in person meeting in Lennoxtown Library on the 21st. The exercise to prepare for the 7th is a pentagram. Write… Continue reading February 7th Meeting

Twentytwentytwo arrived with the pandemic still restricting our get-togethers, so we're back to holding all of our meetings on Zoom meantime. The upside of this is that some of our further flung members can join in. At the 10th January meeting, Marianna MacLeod logged in from the far north and led an excellent session where… Continue reading January meetings

Our prominent member Claire Miller wrote a new story over the festive period. It's called 'The Moment of Truth' and you can see and hear her reading it in instalments on her Facebook page or on her YouTube channel.

We had hoped our last meeting of the year would be an in-person get together in Lennoxtown Library with cakes and festive spirit. However, with the current uncertainty surrounding the progress of the pandemic, we’ve decided to meet online on Zoom again instead. The meeting will be at 1pm on Monday December 20th. Anyone interested… Continue reading Pre-Christmas Zoom Meeting