Kate Writes and Reads

I read five books in March.     The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry Set in mid 19th century Edinburgh, the second...

The Scottish Association of Writers ’ annual conference was held last weekend in the lovely Westerwood Hotel in (not-so-) s...

The annual conference of the Scottish Association of Writers was held 18-20 March, at the Westerwood Hotel, near Cumbernauld, a pl...

Various writerly goings-on. Edinburgh Writers’ Club session 2015-16 got off to a cracking start on 22 September with opening sp...

I’ll give a little toot on my trumpet if I may. I submitted six stories over the last couple of months, three each t...

Virginia Woolf advocated A Room of One’s Own to write in. Jane Austen wrote in the family parlour. Paper and pencil/laptop being p...

In 2008, as a member of Edinburgh Writers’ Club , I was entitled to go to the conference of the Scottish Association of Writers ’ C...

I’ve had a lovely writerly week – although not much actual writing got done. Last weekend was the forty-fifth...