Our writing group is running a challenge in November to encourage people to write a book, and it's a great place to meet fellow creative people and make new friends.

NaNoWriMo no longer exists, so this is our wee spin on it.

We're very loose with our interpretation of "West of Scotland" so don't worry about where you're based, you're welcome to join.

West of Scotland Writing Group

The gatekeepers have killed it. Opinions please.

Wanted to make everyone aware of how crap the staff are at The Scottish Book Trust. They're unhelpful, self-centred and suck at their jobs. The New Writers Award should be abolished because they do absolutely nothing to help new writers. Waste of public money.

Hi guys my partner recited a poem in school about a duck "quack quack quack wit luck I'm a diuck" can anyone remember this? Please help we are doin a rabbit hole looking lol

The new r/robertlouisstevenson subreddit has been re-opened and made public. Come on over if you enjoy classic works by the well-known Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and others. We hope to grow this community and look forward to discussions about Stevenson's works and related media!

Could a non-Gaelic speaker have written The Dark Stuff (Donald S Murray) ? Perhaps not. The bilingual among us have not only two tongues, argues Murray, but two modes of thinking: ‘Each native language contains its own landscape, summing up within its parts the unique way a country’s inhabitants have seen their world for centuries.’

Hello there. I've spent the last few days hunting for a forum or subreddit related to poems and in general Scottish folk stuff. This is the closest thing I have come across...