Open Mic at Kelso Writers Workshop: Come and read your stories and poetry or just enjoy listening to ours.
£2.50 (£2 members) includes a biscuit and tea or coffee.
2.30pm - 4.15pm, Tuesday, 20 November 2018.
Abbey Row Community Centre, Abbey Row, Kelso, TD5 7BJ

Crime and Thriller Writing

A talk and workshop by Gilly Beckett.

2.30pm to 4.15pm, Tuesday 9 October

Coffee Bar, Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso, TD5 7BJ

Coffee, Tea and Biscuits

£2.50 (Members £2)

Punctuation Workshop - Dots and Dashes

Do you think you know all about when to use stops, periods, dots, exclamation and question marks, dashes and hyphens?

Come along to my talk on Tuesday, 25 September at 2.30 pm.

£2 entry includes  light refreshments.

2.30 pm – 4.15 pm

Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso, TD5 7BJ

Enquiries: mcgregor.iona@btinternet.com      01573 410277

Open mic session

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

Meeting to be held for the start of the new session on Tuesday 11th September 2018

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

At the Coffee Room, Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso

The first session will be an Open Mic. Writers are invited to read some of their stories to the group for evaluation, feedback and enjoyment.

Coffee, Tea and Biscuits

£2 per session

2018 Programme

Kelso Writers’ Workshop

Kelso Writers’ Workshop, founded in 2012 by Iona McGregor, offers beginner and experienced writers, a 15 session course in short story and novel writing; film and playwriting sessions and occasional talks by local authors.

Remainder of 2018 Programme

SEPTEMBER	11	Open Mic: Writers’ Short Stories
	25	Punctuation Workshop
OCTOBER	9	Gilly Beckett: Crime and Thriller Workshop
	23	Session 6: Finding a Theme
NOVEMBER	6	Creating Your Manuscript Using Word
	20	Writing the Best Short Stories
DECEMBER	4	Christmas Party

2.30 pm – 4.15 pm

Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso, TD5 7BJ

http://kelsowritersworkshop.blogspot.co.uk

Enquiries: mcgregor.iona@btinternet.com      01573 410277

Life Writing

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

A TALK

BY DR RAGHU SHUKLA

ON LIFE WRITING, MEMOIRS AND A QUIZ

TUESDAY 26 JUNE 2018

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

COFFEE BAR

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

£2

REFRESHMENTS

This will be the last session before the summer break. We regroup on September 11th when the Kelso Writers will be part of the Borders Heritage Festival. 

Short Story, novel or play - which and why

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT MEETING

12 JUNE 2018

A TALK AND WORKSHOP BY WELL KNOWN LOCAL AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT,

OLIVER EADE

SHORT STORY, NOVEL OR PLAY - WHICH AND WHY?

Abbey Row Community Centre

Kelso

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

12 June 2018

£2

Refreshments Available

All Welcome

Cover Ideas for A Whole Lot of Love - An Anthology of Love Stories

Cover A

Cover B

Cover C

Cover D

Cover E

Cover F

Cover G

Cover H

Cover I

Cover J

Using Google search effectively

Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, you need to be able to check facts.

Peter Munro will demonstrate how to use Google to search the internet more effectively and bolster your research, whether it’s for writing, family history or something else.

Depending on numbers, attendees may be able to have a go themselves.

To prepare for this, please come with a topic you wish to research or the name of a family member (but not a common name like John Smith) and their date of birth.

£2 includes a biscuit and tea or coffee.

2.30pm - 4pm, Tuesday, 29th May 2018.

Kelso Writers' Workshop, Abbey Row Community Centre, Abbey Row, Kelso, TD5 7BJ

The Rise of the Douglas Family

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

Present 

A Talk by Dougie Morrison 

THE RISE OF THE DOUGLAS FAMILY

Tuesday 15th May 2018

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Coffee Room, Abbey Row Community Centre, Kelso

£2

Refreshments

ALL WELCOME

Workshop about Dialogue

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

NEXT MEETING

1ST MAY 2018 

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

This will be part of the short story course (Session 5) about the uses of dialogue and the effective use in fiction. Also, there will be time to read stories from a previous workshop (Session 4) on Creating Characters.

£2

Tea, coffee and biscuits

Writing for Radio

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP 

NEXT MEETING

TUESDAY 17 APRIL 2018

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

WRITING FOR RADIO

A TALK AND WORKSHOP BY GILLY BECKETT

ALL WELCOME

£2

REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

Next workshop 03.04.2018

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT SESSION

TUESDAY 3RD APRIL 2018

14.30 - 16.30

ELSPETH TURNER, co-author of Tweed Dales will give us a talk/workshop 

about the challenges involved in FINDING YOUR OWN VOICE in our writing.

Elspeth has already talked to us about co-authorship and we look forward to meeting her again.

£2

Coffee, Tea and Biscuits

All welcome  

Writing and Illustrating Books for Children: A talk by Jennifer Doherty

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP 

A TALK BY JENNIFER DOHERTY

WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

TUESDAY 20 MARCH 2018

14.30 - 16.30

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

£2

REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE

Jennifer Doherty has published books for younger children with a local theme. Further information about Jennifer can seen on http://www.serafinapress.co.uk

The event is open to all as well as members of the Kelso Writers' Group.

Next workshop 13.03.18

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT MEETING

TUESDAY 13TH MARCH 2018

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

£2

Because of the weather conditions we cancelled the normal fortnightly session due tomorrow, 6th March to next week. The workshop on 13th will be Session 4: Creating Characters. Homework exercises will be set.

The next session is scheduled for Tuesday 20th March when Jennifer Doherty of Serafina Press will give a talk to the group about Writing and Illustrating Books for Children.

Punctuation Talk and Workshop

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

20TH FEBRUARY 2018

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

£2

PUNCTUATION: APOSTROPHES, COMMAS AND SEMI-COLANS

A TALK BY PETER MUNRO

This talk will be a chance for those writers wishing to improve their skills with presentation of work for publication. 

Kelso Writers' Workshop Timetable 2018

JANUARY	9	Session 1 Introduction: The Writing Process
	23	Session 2: Beginning Stories
FEBRUARY	6	Session 3: Writing from Life
	20	Peter Munro: Punctuation Workshop
MARCH	6	Session 4: Creating Characters
	20	Jennifer Doherty: Writing and Illustrating Books for Children
APRIL	3	Elspeth Turner: Finding the Right Voice
	17	Gilly Beckett: Writing for Radio workshop
MAY	1	Session 5: Use of Dialogue
	15	Dougie Morrison: The Douglass'
	29	Ronnie Price: Adventure and Crime Fiction
JUNE	12	Oliver Eade: Short story, novel or play - which and why?
	26	Peter Munro: Using Google Search Effectively
SUMMER BREAK
SEPTEMBER	11	Borders Heritage Festival
	25	Borders Heritage Festival
OCTOBER	9	Gilly Beckett: Crime and Thriller Workshop
	23	Session 6: Finding a Theme
NOVEMBER	6	Anthology 3
	20	Anthology 3
DECEMBER	4	Christmas Party
CHRISTMAS BREAK

Session 3: Writing Stories from Life

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT SESSION

WRITING STORIES FROM LIFE EXPERIENCES

TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2018

2.30 PM - 4.30 PM

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE (COFFEE ROOM), KELSO

£2

TEA/COFFEE

BEGINNERS WELCOME

Session 2 Beginning Stories

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

NEXT SESSION

TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2018

ABBEY ROW COMMUNITY CENTRE, KELSO

14.30 - 16.30

£2

TEA AND COFFEE 

NEXT SESSION; 

BEGINNING STORIES USING A SENSE OF PLACE

Kelso Writers' Workshop Session 1

KELSO WRITERS' WORKSHOP

SESSION 1

The new course starts again on

9 January 2018

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

At

Abbey Row Community Centre (Coffee Room)

Kelso

This first session will be an introductory one and will look at the Writing Process. 

Writing Exercise to help writers to get started.

£2 per session

Tea/Coffee and Biscuits

All existing members and new writers welcome.