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Erskine Writers Syllabus 2023/24 |
Date |
Topic |
Tuesday 5th September |
Welcome - Guide to the year ahead, review of syllabus and yearly subscriptions Open Manuscripts (OM) |
Tuesday 12th September |
Hilary's 'Box of Tricks' |
Tuesday 19th September |
Workshop on educational writing. Guest Speaker Val Thornton |
Tuesday 26th September |
AGM review of post holders Members to send writings that they want critiqued to John H by 3rd October. John will email submissions to group. Feedback will be given on 10th October to each member who submitted. |
Tuesday 3rd October |
Competition (1) Poetry. Guest Speaker Iona Lee (‘Betty Munnoch Award’) |
Tuesday 10th October |
‘Critiques 1’ feedback from the group to those members who submitted their work to be critiqued. +OM |
Tuesday 17th October |
Competition (2) Research on an aspect of personal history.eg a place meaningful to you (500 -1000 words) Guest speaker Sarah Smith. ’The Quaich Award’ |
Tuesday 24th October |
Deadline for competition (1) Workshop on writing for radio programme. Led by Sandra. John S 15 minute slot. Sandra will bring tapes to the workshop. Members to send writings that they want critiqued to John H by 31st October. John will email submissions to group. Feedback to to those members who submitted will be given on 7th November |
Tuesday 31st October |
Homework prose (500 words) or poem (40 lines). On the subject of ‘Halloween’ |
Tuesday 7th November |
Deadline for competition (2) ‘Critiques 2’ feedback from the group to those members who submitted their work to be critiqued. +OM |
Tuesday 14th November |
Competition (3) Flash Fiction. (500 words) Guest Speaker Vikki Gemmell ‘The Erskine Bridge Hotel Award’ |
Tuesday 21st November |
Homework 500 words Traditions - curious ones, family ones, friends ones, work related ones Lunch /afternoon tea at the Willows Restaurant |
Tuesday 28th November |
Adjudication and readings from competitions (1) & (2) +OM |
Tuesday 5th December |
Deadline for competition (3) Homework 500 words I wish I had written 'Streets of London'. Write about something you admire and wish you had written - a book, a poem or a song’ |
Tuesday 12th December |
Christmas pies Desert Island Songs, 8 songs plus luxury item plus book +OM |
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Christmas/New Year Break |
Tuesday 9th January |
Adjudication and readings from competition (3) Homework bring 2/3 photographs or pictures from a magazine which will be drawn from a hat for group to write about at the meeting. |
Tuesday 16th January |
Dialogue workshop held by John S |
Tuesday 23rd January |
Homework no word limit. ‘Letter to my 16 year old self’ Members to send writings that they want critiqued to John H by 30th January. John will email submissions to group. Feedback to those members who submitted will be given on 6th February. |
Tuesday 30th January |
Adjudication with Greenock writers. General short story 2000 words +OM John H to follow up with Mhairi Gilchrist Secretary GWC re dates |
Tuesday 6th February |
‘Critiques 3’ feedback from the group to those members who submitted their work to be critiqued +OM |
Tuesday 13th February |
Homework ‘I was there’ Prose (500 words) or poem (40 lines). The Max Boyce Award.....write about an event, an incident, an historic moment about which you can say "I was there" |
Tuesday 20th February |
Workshop with Sandra ‘Beginning a novel’ Sandra to issue silhouette pictures to group for ‘Women’s Short Story’ due on 5th March |
Tuesday 27th February |
Character/Setting exercise Information to be emailed out to the group on what the exercise entails (John H) Competition (4) Young Adult Short Story (2000 words) ‘Albert Hammond Award’ |
Tuesday 5th March |
Homework (1500 words) ‘Women’s Short Story’ Members to send writings that they want critiqued to John H by 12th March. John will email submissions to group. Feedback to those members who submitted will be given on 19th March. |
Tuesday 12th March |
Open Manuscripts |
Tuesday 19th March |
Deadline for competition (4) Young Adult Short Story (2000 words) Adjudicated by Suzy Aldous ‘Critiques 4’ feedback from the group to those members who submitted their work to be critiqued +OM |
Tuesday 26th March |
SAW Feedback +OM |
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Easter Break |
Tuesday 16th April |
Flash Fiction ‘One liners’ The group will draw one line sentence from the hat. Complete a flash fiction story. Then pair up with a colleague who drew the same one liner and then work together merging their stories into one piece. John H to provide the one liners. |
Tuesday 23rd April |
Book Review. Group to provide review of a book that they have read. Maximum 10 minutes |
Tuesday 30th April |
Adjudication and readings from competition (4) |
Tuesday 7th May |
Adjudication/feedback from Greenock writers on our submissions for general short story 2000 words +OM John H to follow up with Mhairi Gilchrist Secretary GWC re dates |
Tuesday 14th May |
Homework 500 words (5-7minutes delivery time) ‘Award Speech’ deliver your award speech fact or fiction. |
Tuesday 21st May |
Garden party & prize giving |
Syllabus 2023/24
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