Perthshire Writers

A group of Perthshire-based writers meeting regularly to share their work in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Congratulations to @lithgaelark who is this year's winner of the Writer of the Year trophy! 🏆🎉🏆

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This year's President's Prize was awarded to Andrew Whyte (L), here with Bob Ballard receiving his trophy 🏆 Second place went to David Hall 🎉 Third place to Jennie Murray 🎉 HC to Morag Oag 🎉 Congratulations to Andrew and all 🏆🎉

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

World Book Day is this Thursday! Find some great resources here, from @scottishbktrust

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @GuardianBooks.

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Gordon Burns, third was Jennie Murray @lithgaelark, HC went to Andrew Whyte and C went to Julie Close. Congratulations all!

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Congratulations to John Luke, the recent winner of our poetry contest. Our adjudicator was Ian Spring but as John was away he received the trophy from our president Bob @lathrowriter at our next meeting. Placed second was...

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

‘The Writer’s Dog’ - My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

How to gift wrap a book…. My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks

[Rob McInroy @McInRob]

10% off all Ringwood Publishing books (including mine!) at the @RingwoodPublish website until 20 December.

Know anyone who would like Scottish historical crime fiction for Christmas?

https://t.co/ppRnqITioI

#WritingCommunity #ScottishFiction #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Congratulations to @OlgaWojtas, a friend of Perthshire Writers, on her book being a @TheScotsman's Book of the Year!

[Olga Wojtas @OlgaWojtas]

Thrilled to bits to find "Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Gondola of Doom" is a @TheScotsman's book of the year! Particularly chuffed by the last par. And delighted to be alongside my fellow @SarabandBooks authors @AjayClose, @GMacraeBurnet, Donald S Murray and @AndresNOrdorica.

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Full results; 1st place Jennie Murray, 2nd place Maggie Sherrit, 3rd place Gordon Burns. Highly commended Andrew Whyte, Commended Janet McKenzie.
Well done all! 🏆

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Congratulations to the winners of our Flash Fiction contest. Here is first place winner Jennie Murray @lithgaelark receiving her trophy from adjudicator William Duguid @WilliamDuguid1 and club president Bob Ballard @lathrowriter

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

It's tradition that every year on the 5th of November we put that guy Faulks on top of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

#BonfireNight #GuyFawkes #Bonfire #5thNovember

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

An early Halloween cartoon for @GuardianBooks

[Jonathan Melville @jon_melville]

There’s been a murder in the crime section of Corstorphine library…

[Perthshire Writers @PerthshrWriters]

Perthshire Writers took some time to celebrate the launch of A Pocketful of Perthshire Vol.2. A lot of hard work by our anthology committee and a fantastic volume with a selection of writing from our members.

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Perthshire Writers were at Bookmark Book Festival, proudly selling our new anthology. Thanks to everyone who said hello and bought a copy, and to our booksellers!
@bookmarkblair

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@gewylie @CPKLibraries @bookmarkblair Looking forward to it!

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Perthshire Writers is delighted to announce the launch of our anthology, A Pocketful of Perthshire Vol.2. Available soon at @CPKLibraries & bookstores. Many thanks to our anthology team for their hard work producing this amazing collection! Retweets appreciated.