Out of the darkness of winter comes... creativity! Wednesdays 10-12noon. £50 for eight weeks. New member always welcome. The Harbour Arts...

A little winter warmer.

Like most of us, I am sure, I love the little extras we find in old books; the connections with the readers who were there before. I have...

Every term, I turn up wondering who else will be there. Will enough people be interested in what I do to make the group viable. Hiring a...

We were given a boat-ride for Christmas by some very thoughtful family members. It took a while for Julie and I to get around to it, but...

It was very cool indeed to end the current session of the writing group, in Studio One at the Harbour Arts Centre, sitting beneath the...

Three men sit around the table in a busy pub-diner. One reaches into a bag and pulls out... a velociraptor, a stegosaurus, and the...

When You are in The People's Friend twice in the same week. Okay, one's an advert for The Friendship Book, but I'll take it!

This is Andrew Menzies. He drives a bus / art gallery. Since 1978 Edinburgh's Museums and Galleries department have sent their Travelling...

That's the publicity for the writing group done for the week. All in the Harbour Arts Centre, of course! Our wee booklet, A Wee Free...

I was in the Book Nook in Stewarton today. I'd gone there from the library because my soul was in need of more soothing! Book shops are...

For a few years now - thanks to Alison Patterson - the Wordworkers writing group has displayed poems in the Harbour Arts Centre...

I mostly write about people. So, a day out of the house, going somewhere people are can often be seen as research. But, sometimes the...

A friend send me this pic of a story and asked if I'd written it. It's in our writing group's Wee Free Read, and it's a story about being...

If I'm in a tea-shop or a cafe, I'm usually with someone - which means we will be talking. But a solo visit to places like this can be a...

Each new term of the writing group brings it's own worries (and delights). This term (Wednesday 21st August) was one I considered...

They warn you to be careful what you say around writers. My unsuspecting friend - who I had a wide-ranging chat with yesterday - bears no...

It was a seat for ministers, communing, we hope, with God before the next sermon. I saved it from the renovation skip by donating to a...

The Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2024 is now open. They welcome stories from any genre - provided they can be told in no more than...