Helensburgh Writers' Workshop

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Helensburgh Writers' Workshop This group aims to support aspiring writers, exhange ideas, improve techniques and provide encouragement in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

The group aims to support aspiring writers, exchanging ideas, improving techniques and providing encouragement. We have a varied program including focused workshops for fiction and non-fiction, talks by famous and local authors, and social events. Chairperson, Eric Thompson, invites you to come along and meet us in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Bit short notice but the Helensburgh Writers Workshop have a table in the Victoria Halls until 12pm running a drop in wo...
10/10/2026

Bit short notice but the Helensburgh Writers Workshop have a table in the Victoria Halls until 12pm running a drop in workshop on journaling and memoir writing for adults and comic writing for kids. Hope you can drop by

07/10/2026

Just a reminder we will not be meeting this Monday 12 Oct, we will be back 19 Oct. Happy writing.

26/09/2026

Or next workshop will be CREATING CHARACTERS READERS REMEMBER. Join us this Monday 28 Sept, 7.30-9pm, for a fun, practical creative writing workshop experience how to bring characters to life.

We will look at motivation, strengths and weaknesses, behaviour, with short exercises along the way. No experience necessary, just bring pen and paper.

Whether you’re already writing, an idea, or looking for something creative to try, you’re very welcome. The workshop will be held in The Bridge - Helensburgh Parish Church. £3 for visitors. If you know anyone who might enjoy this please share or tag below. Jo.

06/09/2026

The writers workshop will be back Monday 14 Sept in Helensburgh Parish Church, 7.30-9pm. We will kick off with a welcome evening followed by an open night. New members welcome. The fees for term one(12 weeks) is £30 or £3 pay as you go. Please PM if you want more info. Jo.

27/08/2026

Here is your first little writing challenge.

Your character arrives home to find an envelope lying on the doormat. Their name is written on the front - in their own handwriting.

What’s inside? Give us a few lines, up to 100 words. Pop your writing in the comments if you want to share, and see how many different directions it goes in.

21/08/2026

WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO WRITE?

We’re busy planning our new programme of writing activities and workshops for the coming months, and we’d love to know what you enjoy writing — or what you’ve always fancied trying!

Are you interested in:

📖 Short stories
🔎 Crime, mystery or thrillers
❤️ Romance
👻 Horror or ghost stories
📝 Poetry
📚 Memoir and life writing
✒️ Novels
😂 Humour
🌟 Flash fiction
🤔 Or perhaps you’ve always wanted to write but don’t know where to begin?

Maybe you write something completely different!

Tell us in the comments — what do YOU like to write?

We’ll be sharing some fun mini writing challenges here over the next few weeks too, so keep an eye on the page and join in. Everyone is welcome — whether you’ve been writing for years or haven’t put pen to paper since school! ✍️

28/04/2026

The writers workshop will now take a break for the summer. We will be back again in early Autumn with a new term of writing workshops and exercises.

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Helensburgh

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Monday 7:30pm - 9pm

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