September

4^th – Pay subs, review syllabus, summer writings. Set-word: ‘Machine’

11^th – Guest Speaker: Lee Montgomery-Hughes, ‘Writing on…’

18^th – Hear writings on ‘Machine’. New set-word: ‘Solve’.

25^th – Public Holiday. We will visit the Largs Museum & Skelmorlie Aisle

October

2^nd – Guest Speaker:  Betty McKay, ‘Writing for Children’. Competition

9^th – Four 15-minute talks by four volunteers; questions

16^th – Nature Poetry: talk, workshop, read out writings

23^rd – Poetry of song lyrics. Talk, workshop. Read out writings

30^th – Hear writings on September’s set-word, ‘Solve’. New set-word: ‘Thin’. We’ll hand-in our ‘Write for Children’ competition entries.    

November

6^th – Guest Speaker: David McVey, ‘Humorous Short Story’. Competition

13^th – Short Sketch, Not Comedy. Workshop, and read out  our writing

20^th – Curious Phrases: talk, workshop, discuss

27^th – Flash Fiction: talk, workshop. Competition

December

4^th – Results of the Writing for Children competition.  Hand in Humorous Short Story for judging.

11^th – Article writing: talk, workshop. Competition, Also, reading out efforts for October’s set word ‘Thin’. New set-word: ‘Photo’

18^th – Christmas Panto or TBD   Hand in entries for the Flash Fiction competition.

(no meetings 25 Dec or 1 Jan)

January

8^th – Guest Speaker Angus Middleton: ‘Robert Burns. Hand in Article writing entries

15^th – Flash Fiction Competition result – Gail Anderson, adjudicator. Read out efforts from our set word of December, ‘Photo’. New set-word: ‘Force’.

22^nd – Results of Humorous Short Story Competition, David McVey, adjudicator

29^th – A.I. Robotics, Alexa, etc. Discussion.

February

5^th – Guest Speaker: Lee Montgomery-Hughes. Poetry workshop. Competition

12^th – TBA

19^th – Results of article-writing competition, Eleanor Fordyce, adjudicator

26^th – Share writings from January’s set-word, ‘Force’. New set-word: ‘Guess’. Hand in entries for the poetry competition.         

March

4^th – Science fiction: talk, workshop. Read out writings

11^th – Oran Mor outing

18^th – Results of Poetry Competition, Lee Montgomery-Hughes adjudicator

25^th – Guest speaker: Scotland’s Makar, Kathleen Jamie, will run a workshop.

April

1^st – Easter Holiday (library closed)              

8^th – Favourite books. Please bring up 3 books, or be prepared to give info on them. Could be non-fiction/fiction/poetry. Choose one and explain why it means so much to you at the moment. New set word ‘Wait’.

15^th – Paraprosdokians: talk, workshop, read out writings

22^nd – AGM  & Prizegiving.  Read writings from March’s set-word, ‘Wait’

May

Garden Party – date TBD