Speaker events and workshops
These sessions are to encourage writing and to offer attendees an opportunity to try new writing styles. This is not a taught course.
These sessions are free for members.
2022- sessions arranged so far
Thursday 6th January at 7pm
Online event: Writing fiction for magazines- Lucy Crichton, Fiction Editor for People's Friend
Wednesday 25th May at 7.30pm
Online event: Writing a debut fantasy novel with Ollie A. J. Carter
Monday 27th June at 7pm
Online event: Role of an agent Q&A with Jenny Brown
2021 sessions. Our first ever programme of events!
Saturday 5th June at 10.30am
Online workshop: Shaping a killer first line- Wendy H Jones
Saturday 3rd July at 10.30am
Online workshop: Using dialogue in fiction- Sheena Macleod
Saturday 31st July at 10.30 am
Online workshop: Flash Fiction - Why Every Writer Should Do It - Allison Symes
Followed by a Flash fiction competition (deadline 14th August)
Wednesday 11th August at 7.30pm
Online workshop: Ballad poems- Marc R Sherland
Tuesday 24th August at 7pm
Online feedback session- Share your work with others and receive constructive feedback on it.
Saturday 28th August at 10.30am
Online feedback session- Share your work with others and receive constructive feedback on it.
Friday 3rd September at 10.30am
In-person session at Craigtoun Park: Nature writing- Matthew Knights
Scottish Association of Writers- summer competitions deadline 3rd September.
Monday 20th September at 7pm
Online workshop: 3-5 minute sketch writing - Lisa Nicoll of In Motion Theatre
Saturday 2nd October at 10.30am
Online workshop: Memoir writing- Palo Stickland
Monday 15th November at 7pm
Online Q&A session: Role of an editor- Leonora Rustamova of Bluemoose Books
Saturday 20th November at 10.30am- open to non-members as part of Book Week Scotland
In-person event: Crime writing set in St Andrews- Marion Todd
Places are limited and must be booked in advance.
